Angee Lennard is a printmaker, educator, and arts leader with a penchant for collaboration. Her captivation with prints began in 2001 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and it deepened through a transformative internship with Anchor Graphics. There, founder and master printer David Jones introduced her to the realm of collaborative print publishing.
Inspired by printmaking’s capacity to foster community, Lennard founded Spudnik Press Cooperative in 2007. This nonprofit community-based printmaking studio began as an experimental volunteer-run studio. Under her leadership, it grew into a dynamic open access print studio with artist residencies, community education, exhibitions, and ever-evolving collaborative projects and public programs. Through this work, she helped shape the contemporary landscape of printmaking in Chicago.
In 2013, she introduced a publishing program to Spudnik Press Cooperative that invited a wide range of nationally-recognized artists, including Edie Fake, Amanda Williams, Faheem Majeed, Edra Soto, and many others, to explore printmaking. This program cultivated her obsession with transforming material, process and craftsmanship into the development of significant contemporary artwork. Such print-based works have been exhibited at MoMA, the Smart Museum of Art, Monique Meloche Gallery, Editions VFO, and more.
Alongside print publishing with Process/Process, Lennard is the co-founder of Campfire Printing Press, a co-working art studio centered around printmaking processes in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood.
Her deep involvement in the arts, spanning organizational leadership, operations, studio management, and print production has led her to a variety of local, regional, and national speaking engagements and consultancy roles with colleges, universities, non-profits, and museums. She has been a lecturer at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Arts Administration and Policy and the Printmedia departments. She has served as a Marwen Foundation Teaching Fellow, a grant review panelist for the Illinois Arts Council, and Treasurer for the Chicago Printers Guild (CPG).
Lennard is concurrently Co-Director of High Concept Labs, a residency-based organization that promotes experimentation and visibility for the creative process across disciplines through long-format artist residencies.