The exhibition brings together selections from Instituto Gráfico de Chicago’s print collection, objects, event documentation, and traces of print histories from Mexico and Chicago, presented alongside works from the National Museum of Mexican Art’s Permanent Collection. Together, these works create an evolving archive of learning, resistance, and exchange, held together through the language of print.
Instituto Gráfico de Chicago embraces printmaking as a historically democratic medium that allows for widespread communication, using it as a tool for education and activism.
The work of this volunteer collective amplifies the visibility of contemporary Latinx print artists while advancing the power of art to ignite social change and foster solidarity. Since 2010, eight print portfolios have emerged as sites of encounter where collective members and invited artists have responded to shared social and political concerns.
Simultaneously, IGC’s Grabadolandia, described as the only free printmaking festival led by a Latinx collective in the Midwest, ensures the medium’s vitality by fueling new artists and community-led initiatives.
A 2026 work identified with the collective is Instituto Gráfico de Chicago’s ‘Xiuhcóatl de Resistencia.’ The exhibition is curated by Marcela Andrade Serment and Elisa Soto Sánchez.
