FlexSpace Artist in Residence | Vida SACIC | February 25 - March 27, 2024

Vida Sačić. *Home, Body, Land,* Letterpress Prints, 40" x 58" each, edition of 2-4 each

The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to welcome Vida Sačić as Artist in Residence for the month of March, 2024.

Residency Dates: February 26 - March 27, 2024

Open Studio Hours: Wednesday afternoons, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

Public Program: Q&A with Vida Sačić and Martha Chiplis: Saturday, March 16, 2024, 2:00 pm

Vida Sačić is a Chicago-based artist who works with moveable type to create editioned prints that explore labour and identity in the context of immigration.

Join us for a public program Saturday March 16 at 2:00 pm

The Riverside Arts Center will host a Q&A with Vida Sačić and Martha Chiplis Saturday, March 16, 2024, 2:00 pm in the FlexSpace.

Join Vida and Martha for an afternoon of conversation on movable type and the role of letterpress printing in community-building and collaborative practices. The conversation will feature young artists Hannah Grajciar, Luis Anzo, and Lesly Alonso, who are assisting in constructing the work during Vida's residency.

Martha Chiplis is a Berwyn-based artist and co-author of “For the Love of Letterpress,” published by Bloomsbury. She teaches letterpress printing at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

Bio:

Vida Sačić is a Croatian and American multidisciplinary artist and educator. Her work explores immigration, gender, and labor primarily through print media. She has been a resident artist at The Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and The Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago. In her work,

Vida emphasizes community and collaboration. She has worked on long-term collaborative projects with TipoRenesansa Letterpress Studio in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Wisconsin. Her prints and installations have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and Europe, including at the DeVos Art Museum in Michigan and The Center for Book Arts in New York City.

Vida is currently preparing for a solo exhibition in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Locally, her large-scale work will be featured in an upcoming exhibition of printing by and for immigrant communities at the Newberry Library in Chicago, opening in December 2024.

Vida’s studio practice is informed and complemented by her work as an educator and tenured professor at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.

Project description:

As an artist in residence at the FlexSpace at Riverside Arts Center, I will develop a new project inspired by correspondence within immigrant families. Primarily working in print media, I plan to create in-process assemblages of prints on paper, textiles, and fiber that incorporate other media. I will be assisted by young artists from immigrant backgrounds whose families are multi-lingual. The works will feature hand-written and printed notes, drawings, images, and stories gathered during the residence.

The RAC community is invited to take part in the construction.

I will be working in the FlexSpace on Wednesday afternoons during the month of March, with events planned during the week of March 11.