Atlan Arceo-Witzl

Hey y’all! Join us tonight, Friday 5/15, for the release of Chicago Signs and Symbols Volume 3 featuring an interview with Quimby’s alumni Echo Elise González and works submitted by Nick Marzullo, Lya Finston, Maddie Vaccaro, Scott McGaughey and printing by Raeann Van Zee of Bovine In this exhibition Lisa Glenn Armstrong and Atlan Arceo-Witzl of the zine Chicago Signs and Symbols bring together protest posters, publications, signage reference books, and community workshop outcomes from an event held at Hoofprint back in December. Chicago Signs and Symbols is a collaborative zine project made under the model of DIT (do-it-together) that uses Chicago’s unique signs to explore the cultural indicators of our social realities and what can be understood about Chicago’s past, present, and future through semiotics. Lisa Glenn Armstrong is a Chicago-based designer, musician, and educator whose work explores the shifting boundaries between emergent technologies and traditional print processes, treating both as living systems rather than fixed tools. Collaboration is central to her approach, building frameworks that prioritize collective authorship, shared inquiry, and community engagement. Her work often unfolds as an open-ended process, where outcomes are shaped through participation. Atlan Arceo-Witzl is a Mexican-American visual artist, creator, and educator based in Chicago. He is driven by a foundational urge to draw, working to redefine midwestern identity and place as a hybrid ancient-contemporary-nowness. Being a second generation printmaker and a third generation educator influences his use of graphic forms in the relief print tradition while also instigating a curiosity in print process and ephemera. He is intrigued by everyday rituals, icons, symbols, totemic objects, communication, and translation. #zine #chicagosignsandsymbols #quimbysbookstore #print #signs

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This Friday! 5/15 🙌🏽 Chicago Sign & Symbols Issue 3 release party: Fri. 5/15, 6:30-8 pm Chicago Sign & Symbols Exhibition: Featuring the work of Lisa Glenn Armstrong and Atlan Arceo-Witzl Exhibition runs through June 26, daily 12-6 Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave, Chicago In this exhibition Lisa Glenn Armstrong and Atlan Arceo-Witzl of the zine Chicago Signs and Symbols bring together protest posters, publications, signage reference books, and community workshop outcomes from an event held at Hoofprint back in December. Chicago Signs and Symbols [ @chicagosignsandsymbols ] is a collaborative zine project made under the model of DIT (do-it-together) that uses Chicago’s unique signs to explore the cultural indicators of our social realities and what can be understood about Chicago’s past, present, and future through semiotics. Chicago Signs and Symbols Volume 3 features an interview with Quimby’s alumni Echo [ @fraulein_echo ] and works submitted by Nick Marzullo, Lya Finston, Maddie Vaccaro, Scott McGaughey and printing by Raeann Van Zee [ @raeannvz ] of Bovine Press. Lisa Glenn Armstrong [ @lisa_gl3nn ] is a Chicago-based designer, musician, and educator whose work explores the shifting boundaries between emergent technologies and traditional print processes, treating both as living systems rather than fixed tools. Collaboration is central to her approach, building frameworks that prioritize collective authorship, shared inquiry, and community engagement. Her work often unfolds as an open-ended process, where outcomes are shaped through participation. Atlan Arceo-Witzl [ @atlanaw ] is a Mexican-American visual artist, creator, and educator based in Chicago. He is driven by a foundational urge to draw, working to redefine midwestern identity and place as a hybrid ancient-contemporary-nowness. Being a second generation printmaker and a third generation educator influences his use of graphic forms in the relief print tradition while also instigating a curiosity in print process and ephemera. He is intrigued by everyday rituals, icons, symbols, totemic objects, communication, and translation.

Happy Wednesday! Come celebrate Stevie Wonder’s 76th birthday today with classic Motown, funk and socially conscious soul on vinyl and peruse the stacks and stacks and stacks of zines, comics, alt an indie publications! THIS FRIDAY 5/15 join us for the zine release of Chicago Signs and Symbols volume 3 by Lisa Glenn Armstrong and Atlan Arceo-Witzl and peep the opening of their super cool instillation and very affordable poster art! –.- ..- .. — -… -.– .—-. … Quimby’s Bookstore Books Zines Comics ~ ~ Since 1991 ~ ~ 1854 W. North Ch-IL Open everyday 12-6 ///////////////////////////////////// #indiebookstores #vinyl #steviewonder #chicagoartist #thingstodoinchicago

⚡️FOREVER WARS NO MORE ⚡️ @atlanaw at it again! You can find this print and more for sale on our website, or buy it directly from Atlan on Saturday, May 16th at PLANTING SEEDS: Indigenous Zine Fest at the @newberrylibrary organized by @zinemercado 📚 We’ll also bring a couple copies to beautiful Bloomington, Indiana for the MINI MIDWEST PRINT FEST on the same day, hosted by @hideoutpress and @badkneests 👀 #nowar #printmaking #zine #protest

Sharing some install shots from the @chicagosignsandsymbols install at @quimbysbookstore . The exhibit brings together protest posters, publications, signage reference books, and community workshop outcomes from an event held at Hoofprint back in December. Join us at Quimby’s on Friday 5/15 from 6:30–8pm for the release of CSS Volume 3, featuring an interview with @fraulein_echo and works submitted by Nick Marzullo, Lya Finston, Maddie Vaccaro, Scott McGaughey and printing by @raeannvz of Bovine Press.

🐺🐾 MdW: Feral Citizen - Atlan Arceo-Witzl🌳🦉 𝘈𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘔𝘥𝘞 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 Airing: Thursday, February 26th 11AM - 12PM CST Feral Citizen is a short run series of conversations with western great lakes, regional ecologists, scientists, makers and activists who center Land in their interdisciplinary practice. Conversations are curated by Nance Klehm, chief ecologist and director of Social Ecologies.  For our third episode, we have a very special interview with visual artist, creator, and educator ––Atlan Arceo-Witzl (@atlanaw ) Atlan Arceo-Witzl is a Mexican-American visual artist, creator, and educator based in Chicago, IL. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from Skidmore College in 2018 with concentrations in printmaking, drawing, and sculpture. Post graduation he has worked with mosaic muralist Carolyn Elaine’s studio crew helping to design and produce large-scale pieces across the Chicagoland area. Arceo-Witzl has also worked as a teaching artist at Spudnik Press Cooperative, Marwen, YouMedia, and in his current position as an Instructional Specialist at Columbia College Chicago. He is an active member of the Chicago Printers Guild as well as Instituto Grafico Chicago, a collective of Latinx printmakers from across the city. In addition, he maintains his own art and freelance graphic design practices collaborating with various organizations including the Pilsen Housing Cooperative, Open Books, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Code Switch Podcast (NPR), Chicago Tool Library, and the Logan Square Chamber of Commerce among others. ✨

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I’ll be at @hoofprintchicago this Saturday (1/10/26) from 12-5pm signing and selling prints as well as giving away posters in connection with the closing of my first solo show, “Detrás de Nosotros Estamos Ustedes: Behind Us We Are You”, at @coprosperitychicago We’ll be hanging out in the Hoofprint shop (3143 S. Morgan St.) just a few blocks north of the exhibition in the windows outside Co-Prosperity (3219 S. Morgan St.) if you haven’t gotten a chance to see it. Hope to see you there! #printmaking #hoofprintchicago #coprosperitysphere #chicago #art

Hey all. I’ll be tabling at @littlerednestchicago today from about 6-8pm Hope to see you there! ✌🏽 “Friends, Today is the Mini Radical Print Fair featuring Atlan Arceo-Witzl, Carlos Barberena, Chicagoteria, Marimacha Monarca Press, Monica Trinidad, Olly Costello, Paul Kjelland, William Estrada, and more. Join some of Chicago’s most radical printmakers for the first ever print fair at the Little Red Nest in conjunction with Carlos Barberena’s solo show DE LA TIERRA SOMOS ¡NO SOMOS ILEGALES!. Artists will be tabling beautiful, powerful, and inspiring work for you to pick up just in time for the holidays. Please plan to attend and tell your friends. Peace, Aaron”

Next Sunday ☀️ all are welcome to celebrate the release of Chicago Signs & Symbols: Volume 2 at @hoofprintchicago ! We’ll be making signs as well as documenting and uploading images to the archive for future publication. Stop by 3143 S Morgan St on Sunday 12/7 between 1-4pm and pick up a copy of the new zine from Tenoch Press ( @atlanaw ) and @shapeshiftpress . Volume 2 features an interview with photographer, curator and archivist Oscar Arriola @oscararriola , with additional photography submitted by Steven Melendez @stevenmmelendez , Julia Buck @ceramicarchives , and Maddie Vaccaro @moonbaddiemaddie . Thanks to all who contributed and hope to see you there! … @chicagosignsandsymbols is a project that asks, what makes Chicago signs unique? How are signs cultural indicators of our social realities? What can be understood about Chicago’s past, present, and future through semiotics? And how do you see yourself reflected in the signs around you?

It’s that time of year. Come join me and all the amazing artists in community at @instituto_grafico_chicago ‘s annual print festival, Gradabolandia (Land of Print). I’ll be tabling on Sunday with lots of new prints as well as showcasing my solo exhibition on Saturday in Bridgeport. It’s bound to be a lot of fun and free and open to the public to attend! More details below and on the schedule slide 🙏🏽💕✊🏽🌞🐌🔥🧊 “MARK YOUR CALENDARS‼️ Instituto Gráfico de Chicago presents the 13th annual Grabadolandia Printmaking Festival Nov. 21, 22, & 23 - 2025 National Museum of Mexican Art @explorenmma 1852 W 19th St., Chicago, IL FREE and open to the public /// Immigrants welcome /// Migrants encouraged to attend #ArtExhibits #PrintDemos #ArtistTalks #VendorFair In collaboration with: Hoofprint Chicago @hoofprintchicago 18th St. Casa de Cultura @18casadecultura Pilsen Arts and Community House @pilsenartscommunityhouse ART by #IGC member @alex.velazquez.brightbill.art in Collab with @chemaskandal #VivaLaGrafica #InstitutoGraficoDeChicago #Printmaking #Pilsen #Grabado #Gravure #chicagoart “