Lamination Machine
December 4, 2025-February 6, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 4, 2025 4p.m.-6p.m
Eco-Friendly Lamination Alternatives: Learn to Make and Use Bioplastic, Monday, February 2nd, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Makerspace, 754 S. Wabash Ave, 2nd Floor.
Adventures with Monoprint: Alternative Uses of Lamination in Printmaking, Wednesday, February 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Makerspace, 754 S. Wabash Ave, 2nd Floor
Closing Reception and Catalog Release: Thursday February 6, 2026 4p.m.-6p.m.
Lamination Machine is a multimedia exhibition exploring changing consumer relationships and humanistic approaches to the impertinent economy of object value. We provide a space and time to investigate ephemeral relationships to daily objects that often go unnoticed, ignored, or forgotten. The range of mediums present in Lamination Machine references the industrial origins and processes of lamination as a technique and a material study.
Participating artists:
Kristian Alvarado, Carley Brown, Jenna Davis, Lawrence Howell Hight-Goggin,
Isabella Miller, Eliana Pinkert, Cristian Romero, Nat Slavin, Regina Telinski and
Isa Woodard
Programming:
Eco-Friendly Lamination Alternatives: Learn to Make and Use Bioplastic
Monday, February 2nd, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Makerspace, 754 S. Wabash Ave, 2nd Floor.
Presented in conjunction with the current Hokin Gallery exhibition, Lamination Machine, we invite you to join artist and environmentalist Lawrence Hight-Goggin for an interactive demonstration on the fabrication, utility, and diversity within bioplastic recipes. In this two-hour workshop, you will learn how to make bioplastic, when to use bioplastic, and use it to laminate a chosen material. Attendees will also leave with a zine summarizing the information covered in the workshop. This workshop is free to attend and open to all skill levels and majors, with a registration limit of 15 people.
This event is partially funded by the Chicago Conservation Corps.
REGISTER HERE: https://engage.colum.edu/ssac/rsvp_boot?id=1937385
Adventures with Monoprint: Alternative Uses of Lamination in Printmaking, Wednesday, February 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Makerspace, 754 S. Wabash Ave, 2nd Floor
Wednesday, February 4th, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Makerspace, 754 S. Wabash Ave, 2nd Floor.
Join artist and printmaker Eliana Pinkert to explore alternative methods of printmaking with laminated textures and objects. In this two-hour workshop, you will learn to laminate textural objects and make basic monoprint designs (a la texture rubbings). Attendees will leave with a successful monoprint and the laminated “block” that can be used to reproduce. Armed with the basics of laminating and relief printing introduces new, alternative ways to incorporate printmaking at home. Please bring your own objects, ephemera, and textures to work with! Some natural materials will be provided.
This event is held in conjunction with Lamination Machine, the current Hokin Gallery exhibition.
This workshop is free to attend and open to all skill levels and majors, with a registration limit of 10 people. REGISTER HERE: https://engage.colum.edu/ssac/rsvp_boot?id=1937400
Exhibition contact: Mark Porter, mporter@colum.edu
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday 9am-5pm.
Hokin Gallery
The Hokin Gallery presents a year-round schedule of exhibitions and events that showcase the talents of Columbia College Chicago students. To provide hands-on, outside of the classroom learning experiences, the gallery offers many open-call and curatorial opportunities. The gallery also provides a welcoming and safe environment for study, socializing and exhibition viewing.
623 S. Wabash Ave, 1st Floor Chicago, IL 60605
Exhibition opportunitites-
Submit your work to Hokin Gallery!
Made it Here!
Made it Here! Celebrates creative projects by current students and the facilities used to make them.
Are you working on a project in one of our amazing on-campus facilities?
If so, please submit photos, sketches or a brief description. Finished works and
works in-progress are welcome!
Made it Here! will be open to the public in Hokin Gallery June 25-September 11, 2026
Current students of all majors are welcome to participate.
Deadline April 1, 2026
Submit your work HERE
Hokin Gallery Floorplan HERE
Not sure how to present your project in an art gallery? Contact us, we can help!
Questions- Student Spaces for Art and Collaboration/Mark Porter, mporter@colum.edu
