https://vidasacic.com vidasacic.com Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:15:31 +0000 https://vidasacic.com en https://vidasacic.com/About Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:35:48 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/About &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="1267" height="1900" width_o="1267" height_o="1900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b31dbfb0f779b250c8f59c8d840a9579764d9137c348efce4bd4de499b07cc27/MK_20211108_0232-Edit_web.jpg" data-mid="202283548" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b31dbfb0f779b250c8f59c8d840a9579764d9137c348efce4bd4de499b07cc27/MK_20211108_0232-Edit_web.jpg" /> Photo by Mariah Karson Vida Sačić&nbsp;is a Chicago-based artist and typographer. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 2010. She has been the Artist-in-Residence at The Penland School of Craft and The Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago. Her long-term collaborations include projects at the Hamilton Wood Type &amp; Printing Museum in Wisconsin and Tiporenesansa in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions across the United States and Europe, including at DeVos Art Museum in Michigan and The Center for Book Arts in New York City. Sačić is Professor in the Art + Design department at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Artist Statement I explore gender, identity, immigration, and labor via the printed word. My prints—made using typographic relief processes: printing plates, wood, and metal type—are largely abstract and often accompanied by assemblages of tools and sculptures. I grew up in Croatia while it was still a part of Yugoslavia during the wars of the 1990s. From an early age, I have written original story fragments and gathered historical narratives from that region. I began printing them in various opacities and transparencies to highlight and obscure individual words, mimicking the ability of language to identify as well as to impede understanding. Visually, my work challenges the rigid nature of the exacting equipment designed for precision printing. The organic compositions capture gestures of fluidity and motion. By resisting control over the outcome, I create pathways for exploration through processes of layering, repetition, and experimental inking within rigid structures. There is a history to the tools that I am using. They were often used to disseminate harmful narratives and prop up patriarchal, authoritarian, nationalistic, and white supremacist constructs. By creating new aesthetics and reconstructing narratives, I am actively working against that history. I create original printing plates using discarded materials and print them alongside twentieth-century matrices used to create documents. I collect plates created to print tables, maps, and official records and subvert their usage by literally turning them on the head. Similarly, I preserve and work with the only surviving historic wood type from my hometown. This type was used to publish propaganda materials for a local factory. I also commissioned a typographic studio in Slovenia, former Yugoslavia, to produce new wood type, reimagining historical typefaces of the region in a new context. As a part of my artistic practice, I am a writer and a sort of an archivist in that I preserve historical tools and narratives; but above all, I am a printer. Printing was the medium that defined and disseminated knowledge until the late twentieth century. As such, it offers a unique ability to question singular cultural narratives and examine how they were disseminated. https://vidasacic.com/CV Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:15:36 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/CV &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;VIDA SAČIĆ —&nbsp;CV Croatia / Chicago, USA &nbsp;SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2027Soft Archives, Alvona Gallery, Labin, Croatia (upcoming) 2026 Soft Archives, Karas Art Hub, Zagreb, CroatiaVida Sačić, Galerija Zlati Ajngel, Varaždin, Croatia Self-Evident, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL 2025 Home Body Land, Mana Contemporary Highlights, Chicago, IL I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back, Lađa X, Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia Transitory, LiberSPACE Haustor Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia 2024Wavelength, Galerija Flora, Dubrovnik, Croatia 2021 Press &amp; Clay, Robert F. DeCaprio Gallery, Chicago, IL 2019 Acute Accents, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, IA Letters Home, Kerredge Gallery, CCCAC, MISELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2026Loose Grid, installation, Pushkin House in collaboration with UCL, London, United Kingdom 2025 Center Program Exhibition (cur. Teresa Silva), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Radical Collaborations, IBé Arts Institute, Hopewell, VATerrain Biennial, Chicago, IL 2024 Immigrant Printing in Chicago (cur. Jill Gage), Newberry Library, Chicago, IL Double Stitch (with Kristin Abhalter Smith), Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2023 Back to Front: Artists Books by Women (cur. by Martha Chiplis), The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, VA Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 2022 Fútbol is Life (cur. by Nick Butcher), Public Works Gallery, Chicago, IL Typeforce 12, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL Artists Print!, Rochester Institute of Technology at Rochester Art Space, Rochester, NYSIP: Sequences, Iterations, and Permutations exhibition and Vanderbeek Mural collaboration (led by Jasper Goodrich), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 2021 Snacktime Collective, Keep In Touch: Terrain Biennial 2021, Chicago, IL 2020 Grunt Work (with Kristin Abhalter Smith), Terrain Exhibitions, Chicago, IL Continuous Span: Bridge Program showcase (cur. Claudine Ise), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Make Ready for the Revolution, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH 2019 Remnants: Works on Paper (with Don Widmer and Sue Fox), Gallery Studio Oh, Chicago, IL New Impressions 2019, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI 2018 Žene? – Žene! (cur. Smiljana Šafarić Branthwaite), City Museum of Varazdin, Croatia Ajngelovih 10, Zlati Ajngel Gallery, Varazdin, Croatia Graphic Content (cur. by Nancy Lu Rosenheim), The Bike Room @ Gallery 350, Chicago, IL 2017 Animation + Printmaking (cur. Barbara Tetenbaum), The Center for Book Arts, New York City Surface Now (cur. David Armes), Hot Bed Press, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom 2016 Correlation Matrix (two person exhibition with David Wolske), DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI New Impressions in Letterpress, Design College Australia, Brisbane New Impressions in Letterpress, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI 2015 Type as Image: Lynne Avadenka, Purgatory Pie Press and Vida Sačić, Art Mora Gallery, New York, NY Personal Histories, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Australia GRANTS AND STIPENDS 2025 &nbsp;Chicago History Museum - America 250 Commission2021 &nbsp;Northeastern Illinois University - Summer Research Stipend2020 &nbsp;&nbsp;Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) - Individual Artist Grant2014 &nbsp;&nbsp;Northeastern Illinois University - Summer Research Stipend SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES &amp; PANELS 2026Informal Networks in Participatory Projects, The Impossible Encyclopedia: Informality in Art, UCL London, United Kingdom 2025Reclaiming Typographic Lineages, TypeCon 2025, Portland, OR I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back, Lađa X, Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back, College Book Arts Association Conference, Madison, WI Producing Culture with Printmaking, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL 2024Wayzgoose Conference Speaker, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI Chicago Narratives Storytelling, Art and Design Chicago, The South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL AIGA: Design Discourse, Public Works Gallery, Chicago, ILWavelength, Gallery Talk, Flora Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia 2022 AIGA Chicago: Ask And Give, Typography Research Specialist Presentation, Chicago, IL 2021 Press &amp; Clay, artist talk, Robert F. DeCaprio Gallery, Chicago, IL 2020 Letterpress Printing in Chicago, CAA conference panel presentation, Chicago, IL LEAD, Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) Conference panel presentation, online Silent People Print, Makeready, Symposium for Letterpress Educators presentation, online 2019 A Tool for Understanding, TypeCon 2019, Minneapolis, MN A Tool for Understanding, Makeready, Symposium for Educators, MICA, Baltimore, MD RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS &amp; PROJECTS 2026 Visiting Curator, Kinship: Carina Vargas Nuñez, Jalen Hamilton, Jess Bass, and Juan Molina Hernández, Zlati Ajngel Gallery, Varaždin, Croatia 2025Center Program Artist (program led by Teresa Silva), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 2024 Artist in Residence, FlexSpace, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, ILArtist in Residence, Flora Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia 2023 Visiting Curator, Craving Stability: Bobbi Meier and Alina Sokolova at Ajngel Gallery, Croatia 2022 Artist in Residence (invited by Amelia Fontanel), Artists Print!, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY STA-100 Juried Competition Chair, Society of Typographic Arts,&nbsp;Chicago, IL 2020 Field/Work Program Resident Artist, Chicago Artist Coalition (CAC), Chicago, IL Winter Resident Artist, Penland School Of Craft, NC Bridge Program Artist (led by Claudine Ise), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 2019 Artist in Residence, Copper Country Community Arts Center, MI 2018 Printer and Collaborator with Marko Drpić, Tiporenesansa, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2015 Project Manager, Globe Collection Documentation, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, WI 2011 Summer Artist in Residence, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, IL SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2025Featured artist profile, Hold the Door: Radical Contemporary Women Printers, Southern Graphics International, Graphic Impressions Journal (November 2025) Feature interview,&nbsp;Vizkultura, leading Croatian art &amp; culture platform (July 2025) Newcity Magazine, “Making an Impression” — exhibition voted #1 Chicago design exhibition (Feb–Mar 2025 issue) 2024The Chicago Reader, “All That’s Fit To Print” (December 2024) 2018 VoyageChicago, “Art &amp; Life with Vida Sacic: (August 2018)Varazdinski.hr, “Vida Sacic: Umjetnost bez romantike je suhoparna i gubi interes publike” (April 2018) 2016 Martha Chiplis, “Correlation Matrix,” Exhibition Catalogue (August 2016)Jeff Lowe, “Letterpress artist shares inspiration with community members,” Iron County Today (March 2016) 2015 Jonathan Goodman, “Type as Image,” The Brooklyn Rail, (September 2015) 2013 / 2021 Cathie Ruggie Saunders and Martha Chiplis, For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students, Bloomsbury — first and second editions feature Sačić’s work and that of her students WORKS HELD IN THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Newberry Library, Chicago, ILSidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology, NYRochester Institute of Technology Art Collection, NYThe Chicago Design Archive, Chicago, IL Hamilton Wood Type &amp; Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2023-present &nbsp;Full Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 2016-2023 &nbsp;Associate Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 2010-2016 &nbsp;Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 2009-2010 &nbsp;Future Faculty Teaching Fellow, Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, IN 2006-2009 &nbsp;Instructor, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN ACADEMIC WORK 2010-2019 &nbsp;Developed and coordinated the Graphic Design BFA program at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, ILEDUCATION MFA, Indiana University Bloomington — Summa Cum Laude Rhode Island School of Design — Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies BA, Marian University, Indianapolis — Summa Cum Laude https://vidasacic.com/Contact Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:13:47 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/Contact &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="3953" height="3024" width_o="3953" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/200d600807d334f09c2c3e440dbf513fc9ece51eac88b6f5bbb88ab08810f184/IMG_1984_b.jpg" data-mid="202943277" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/200d600807d334f09c2c3e440dbf513fc9ece51eac88b6f5bbb88ab08810f184/IMG_1984_b.jpg" /><img width="58" height="60" width_o="58" height_o="60" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdb66d78861e3e26b47ebdbbadc2dde3f9703747ea3d04b491799658e340f5fb/mail.png" data-mid="202371746" border="0" data-scale="3" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/58/i/bdb66d78861e3e26b47ebdbbadc2dde3f9703747ea3d04b491799658e340f5fb/mail.png" /> For inquiries, please reach out to studio@vidasacic.netLocated at Mana Contemporary, Chicago <img width="58" height="60" width_o="58" height_o="60" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8e407ed3d04ee94937f7b7d274f00a081258ec53488b27ce7b5fad4e4d842e3/Screen-Shot-2022-04-09-at-1.08.19-PM.png" data-mid="202371745" border="0" data-scale="3" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/58/i/a8e407ed3d04ee94937f7b7d274f00a081258ec53488b27ce7b5fad4e4d842e3/Screen-Shot-2022-04-09-at-1.08.19-PM.png" /> Instagram: @vidasacic https://vidasacic.com/Self-Evident Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:08:53 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/Self-Evident <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70fb1d53410f6b68431ccd82a23b96d245e547ff239b0038e9f8aeca93ad05e5/NC_326_008.jpg" data-mid="250659189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70fb1d53410f6b68431ccd82a23b96d245e547ff239b0038e9f8aeca93ad05e5/NC_326_008.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d43a035100a484a031f5e9767c36440092eb2957824342c995eb029acc13042/NC_326_003.jpg" data-mid="250659196" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d43a035100a484a031f5e9767c36440092eb2957824342c995eb029acc13042/NC_326_003.jpg" /> Letterpress prints 47” x 39.5” each Edition of 3Interactive installation Single-channel video Watch the video here Self-EvidentSolo exhibitionAmerica 250 Commission, Chicago History Museum Commissioned by the Chicago History Museum, “Self-Evident” was developed as a site-specific project exploring contemporary immigrant stories in Chicago. The project centers on a series of large-scale letterpress prints created using historic wood type, drawing from the typography and techniques used to print the 1776 Dunlap Broadside.Rather than reproducing the original text, I invited contemporary voices, particularly immigrants and their descendants, to reflect on ideas of belonging, citizenship, and self-definition. Their responses form the content of the prints. The works are built through layered printing, with multiple texts overprinted to create dense typographic fields that move between legibility and abstraction. As the layers accumulate, individual voices intersect, obscure, and re-emerge, and produce a surface that holds contradiction and simultaneity.Featured in the installation is a video of my studio practice, produced and shot by Robert Salazar and edited and produced by Cody Schlabaugh.The installation also includes an interactive component: visitors to the museum are invited to respond to the same prompt and add their voices to the work. Using index cards, they write their responses and slide them into the display, allowing the piece to grow over time. The museum has been documenting and archiving these contributions as they accumulate, creating an evolving archive of public reflection alongside the printed works.Installed together, the project functions less as a fixed statement and more as a collective document in flux. It resists a singular narrative, instead reflecting the complexity and multiplicity of contemporary American identityLearn more about the exhibition at the Chicago History Museum Website. December 2025 - April 2026Photos by Chicago History Museum <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2df55133f29e1c05b8a47c4dac21ff5c88626795b6846935864f213b22e1a9a3/NC_326_007.jpg" data-mid="250659160" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2df55133f29e1c05b8a47c4dac21ff5c88626795b6846935864f213b22e1a9a3/NC_326_007.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b94142f46d9c70d8df43a46ccfdda8b7f1fab39909d8511ebec27335bbf0191/NC_326_009.jpg" data-mid="250659199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b94142f46d9c70d8df43a46ccfdda8b7f1fab39909d8511ebec27335bbf0191/NC_326_009.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f836410c0700dc0336e3db7a68fd66ac8e1182adf72beac68d2839dc8933a38c/NC_326_015.jpg" data-mid="250659200" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f836410c0700dc0336e3db7a68fd66ac8e1182adf72beac68d2839dc8933a38c/NC_326_015.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd110bdcf5640a22796b2ed1c68b78bd8940cd22304df6cf5f35b17353c89257/NC_326_016.jpg" data-mid="250659201" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd110bdcf5640a22796b2ed1c68b78bd8940cd22304df6cf5f35b17353c89257/NC_326_016.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/961b866d71cdc57c52f7501b551cd86db64c84e7279f0437e971ec6b3226d39e/NC_326_017.jpg" data-mid="250659203" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/961b866d71cdc57c52f7501b551cd86db64c84e7279f0437e971ec6b3226d39e/NC_326_017.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c74a325c2a179ddf8e03433829aae35ddb06bf69df16669fa3aef14c193d875c/NC_326_019.jpg" data-mid="250659204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c74a325c2a179ddf8e03433829aae35ddb06bf69df16669fa3aef14c193d875c/NC_326_019.jpg" /> https://vidasacic.com/Home-Body-Land Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:15:31 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/Home-Body-Land <img width="1800" height="857" width_o="1800" height_o="857" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92baa725f8c581a7d1cc3aad395b9c79d7155b610f3eac9e9b26fd6bac0ea109/BHL_panorama.jpg" data-mid="250660438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92baa725f8c581a7d1cc3aad395b9c79d7155b610f3eac9e9b26fd6bac0ea109/BHL_panorama.jpg" /> Letterpress 40” x 58” each Wood typeEdition 2- 4 eachPrinted in April 2022 Home / Body / Land “Home Body Land” is pictured here as it was installed at the Newberry as part of the exhibition Immigrant Printing in Chicago in 2025.It was created at the Hamilton Wood Type &amp; Printing Museum using their extensive historic collection of large wood type to explore the concept of the body as a portable home, reclaiming a sense of belonging through physicality and print. Immersing myself in the space, once a major American manufacturing site, I reflected on the physical and conceptual weight of the tools and their histories. The work was printed in multiple panels, using layered letterforms to build abstract, fractured compositions. Through movement and rhythm, I engaged with the printing process as a form of embodied memory. The act of printing became a somatic ritual, linking my own body to past makers and collective expressions of resilience. Created during the early stages of the war in Ukraine, Home Body Land confronts the trauma of displacement through visual fragmentation. Recently exhibited at Zlati Ajngel Gallery in Croatia in July/August 2026 <img width="5721" height="8173" width_o="5721" height_o="8173" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1876844bd89bce4378637b04f77c8fdd87684b2c3736b6d6a88a2d22e7d4d138/1.V_Sacic_Body_Ajngel.jpg" data-mid="250660439" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1876844bd89bce4378637b04f77c8fdd87684b2c3736b6d6a88a2d22e7d4d138/1.V_Sacic_Body_Ajngel.jpg" /> <img width="2328" height="3327" width_o="2328" height_o="3327" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3862fc62ace5f4274f811f4b10655bacc6a3b221161390249b7b791b58c6638/2.V_Sacic_Is_My_Ajngel.jpg" data-mid="250660440" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3862fc62ace5f4274f811f4b10655bacc6a3b221161390249b7b791b58c6638/2.V_Sacic_Is_My_Ajngel.jpg" /> <img width="5721" height="8173" width_o="5721" height_o="8173" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b630e2abfaa3cfc90cd7be1bc99f9944b9bb796c0d29e57ae52b3871531c3d9/3.V_Sacic_Home_Ajngel.jpg" data-mid="250660442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b630e2abfaa3cfc90cd7be1bc99f9944b9bb796c0d29e57ae52b3871531c3d9/3.V_Sacic_Home_Ajngel.jpg" /> <img width="2338" height="3331" width_o="2338" height_o="3331" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0a44f2da4614a11448caa0d252bc64a57371605ff3decdd3e591b535ce51c7c/4.V_Sacic_Land_Ajngel.jpg" data-mid="250660443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0a44f2da4614a11448caa0d252bc64a57371605ff3decdd3e591b535ce51c7c/4.V_Sacic_Land_Ajngel.jpg" /> https://vidasacic.com/Transitory Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:55:02 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/Transitory <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4701e48caf70b84d8e32963f3cec3bf59fd45bfca06d595711f1661f371eb3e/Haustor1.JPG" data-mid="239603072" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4701e48caf70b84d8e32963f3cec3bf59fd45bfca06d595711f1661f371eb3e/Haustor1.JPG" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1fa05d6b1d33fbeeb565ce85c2158abe3b021ca7a684ca353a036da5110df68/Haustor2.JPG" data-mid="239603081" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1fa05d6b1d33fbeeb565ce85c2158abe3b021ca7a684ca353a036da5110df68/Haustor2.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e343d196b67e40b38d5da6d0d78f2dfa962cf11aa509e4642513c8fb4d7d31e/70.JPG" data-mid="239603245" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e343d196b67e40b38d5da6d0d78f2dfa962cf11aa509e4642513c8fb4d7d31e/70.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b21a5ba0acbabf0601d22d842344ae9e559c590d0181b34756a96ef9f8df2150/14.JPG" data-mid="239603224" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b21a5ba0acbabf0601d22d842344ae9e559c590d0181b34756a96ef9f8df2150/14.JPG" /> <img width="3600" height="4936" width_o="4200" height_o="4936" data-src="//freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5015db8519ade45c0e2256df34153f3c3ed060ae0174ada802298ecd68424ea/VV_6475.jpg" data-mid="138880041" border="0" style="width: 240.591033px; height: 329.877039px; display: none;" data-scale="36"> Letterpress Serigraphy Ephemeral Installation Transitory (Prolazno) For Transitory, I invited a group of contemporary artists from Croatia and neighboring regions to describe a work of theirs that no longer exists. Some wrote about installations that had been dismantled, others about performances that lived only in memory. Their words became fragments—poetic, practical, sometimes matter-of-fact—that I translated, set in wood type, and printed by hand in Chicago.The type I used originally came from Croatia, and I carried the printed fragments back with me to Zagreb, returning them to the place where the project began. I installed the work in LiberSPACE’s Haustor Gallery, a passageway that once housed a print shop, with a sculpture of Gutenberg still looking out from the façade. The site itself felt like a conduit—between inside and outside, between what remains and what disappears. Each print was hung on a line and left to move with the air, like laundry or work clothes drying in a shared courtyard. Over time, the pages shifted and curled, and people walking through brushed against them. Their touch and the wind became part of the piece. I think of Transitory as an act of remembering through print—archiving voices that describe what is already gone. The work holds the gestures of labor, translation, and return. It reflects on how something can vanish but still leave an imprint: of the hands that made it, the people who passed by, and the air that carried it. Participating artists:Aleksandar Bede Sabina Čanić Katerina Duda Miljenka Francic Ana Horvat Josip Ivančić Ivana Ognjanovac Ivana Ožetski Ivana Penjak Kasavica Dražen Pejković Irena Poje-Oxenham Petar Popijač Laura Rainbow Mateja Rusak Darko Sačić Maja Vrban Sačić Saša Šimpraga Janja Stupar Ivan Mesek Jelena Martinović Lila Herceg Wanda Tudja Strahonja Ivona Vlasic July 2025 https://vidasacic.com/IDTCB Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:48:39 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/IDTCB <img width="5712" height="4284" width_o="5712" height_o="4284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3030fa067d8ecc387d773a204d9c3c52bf6010efd94fe73e515391cfa63ffec/Lazareti2.jpg" data-mid="239557790" border="0" alt="test" data-caption="test" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3030fa067d8ecc387d773a204d9c3c52bf6010efd94fe73e515391cfa63ffec/Lazareti2.jpg" /><img width="5712" height="4284" width_o="5712" height_o="4284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d274e8ab796304aa6de5f2b1191109f07787fd2e6452e0c82c7df58d27b9e305/Lazareti1.jpg" data-mid="239557789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d274e8ab796304aa6de5f2b1191109f07787fd2e6452e0c82c7df58d27b9e305/Lazareti1.jpg" /> <img width="2222" height="1536" width_o="2222" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5722d071b88b42ca92deaa7f18d30157ce9035f911631441c15dd521a5ff97c0/Screenshot-2025-03-15-at-10.51.58AM.png" data-mid="239557797" border="0" alt="Artist book" data-caption="Artist book" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5722d071b88b42ca92deaa7f18d30157ce9035f911631441c15dd521a5ff97c0/Screenshot-2025-03-15-at-10.51.58AM.png" /> <img width="1872" height="1296" width_o="1872" height_o="1296" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22cebda16a418d69a95d9b295397f62836de281e9b6148cf918f945b83847430/book.jpg" data-mid="239557793" border="0" alt="Lada X, Dubrovnik, Croatia" data-caption="Lada X, Dubrovnik, Croatia" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22cebda16a418d69a95d9b295397f62836de281e9b6148cf918f945b83847430/book.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="4936" width_o="4200" height_o="4936" data-src="//freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5015db8519ade45c0e2256df34153f3c3ed060ae0174ada802298ecd68424ea/VV_6475.jpg" data-mid="138880041" border="0" style="width: 240.591033px; height: 329.877039px; display: none;" data-scale="36"> Letterpress Wood typeDigital printing Artist Book Edition of 75 I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back (IDTCB) Artist book and exhibition, Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik / Chicago I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back explores themes of return, identity, and place through the lens of migration. Commissioned by Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik and developed between Croatia and the United States, the project reflects on personal and collective experiences of belonging across borders.At its core is a question posed by the artist to emigrant artists and cultural workers from Croatia and neighboring countries: “Do you intend to return?” Their varied and often ambivalent responses appear in the book as typographic compositions, created with historic wood type from a 20th-century printing office in Varaždin.Printed and designed in Chicago, the book combines hand-set letterpress fragments with digitally typeset pages derived from scanned impressions, preserving the tactile traces of the printing process. Through this layering, I (Don’t) Intend To Come Back becomes a living archive—linking diasporic voices and renewing connections between artists, language, and place. July 2025 https://vidasacic.com/Wavelength Tue, 13 Aug 2024 21:52:21 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/Wavelength <img width="3000" height="1926" width_o="3000" height_o="1926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06b8793dab210b98e5e1217760f51869cf9897df1d12e071e454cef9c9f28c37/Flora_doc.jpg" data-mid="216320840" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06b8793dab210b98e5e1217760f51869cf9897df1d12e071e454cef9c9f28c37/Flora_doc.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c641fc7bacf06aef80af078d763d205fe30a2cbf80a561487152ce5ff456bedc/wavelength2.jpg" data-mid="216320844" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c641fc7bacf06aef80af078d763d205fe30a2cbf80a561487152ce5ff456bedc/wavelength2.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbe29e5a22cfde735a8a27e929b01a485ab376f53cd936a9062d201c265f501c/on_the_record.jpg" data-mid="216320848" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbe29e5a22cfde735a8a27e929b01a485ab376f53cd936a9062d201c265f501c/on_the_record.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c9f4c6d563dedeb09b0f023ed3b0c5691193de6a7c168bb47c344b8de706994/lift.jpg" data-mid="216320855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c9f4c6d563dedeb09b0f023ed3b0c5691193de6a7c168bb47c344b8de706994/lift.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10913ce3dd48bac68519678c58c8b708e38526a2f5ad4a372964ff67414be06f/lift2.jpg" data-mid="216320856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10913ce3dd48bac68519678c58c8b708e38526a2f5ad4a372964ff67414be06f/lift2.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0856f57cffe1d87cb637309e1725313d3a42b32d1a3c4befc464f3ab6eed5a65/assemblages.jpg" data-mid="216320857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0856f57cffe1d87cb637309e1725313d3a42b32d1a3c4befc464f3ab6eed5a65/assemblages.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1172" width_o="1920" height_o="1172" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe241a84cef900f649bd8070727d4f8039adcd5c1fac89d75b8650ca21bb4fd4/hesitency.jpg" data-mid="216320858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe241a84cef900f649bd8070727d4f8039adcd5c1fac89d75b8650ca21bb4fd4/hesitency.jpg" /> <img width="1869" height="1280" width_o="1869" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1acc2299fae8b47cce1e56721a80cd0c3e2dc698acb32032e3ae148ad53ba84/wavelength_test.jpg" data-mid="216320837" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1acc2299fae8b47cce1e56721a80cd0c3e2dc698acb32032e3ae148ad53ba84/wavelength_test.jpg" /> LetterpressRisographySerigraphyVariable sizes “Valna Duljina”Eng. “Wavelength”This site-specific installation was produced as a part of a solo exhibition by the same name at Gallery Flora in Dubrovnik, Croatia.Text from the exhibition catalogueThe exhibition "Wavelength," showcased at Flora Gallery in Dubrovnik, explores identity within the community through my works on paper, in which I have often explored themes of gender, labor, and the immigrant experience in the United States. My journey began in 1998 when I moved alone from Croatia to the American Midwest, a pivotal transition for me as a teenager that profoundly shaped my life and artistic practice. In my work, I employ typography to challenge language's conventional meanings. I meticulously craft each piece using my Vendercook printing press and moveable type. Creating these prints is not merely a technical exercise but a deliberate engagement with historical narratives and the tools used to produce them through personal reflections that often elude established records. My past sources have mostly been carefully selected historical narratives that have escaped traditional archives. However, in this exhibition, I focused on my contemporaries.Designed specifically for the Flora Gallery, the exhibition unfolds as a site-specific installation where each print is conceived as a unique component contributing to a larger narrative. Some prints feature my own writings, hand-set in small metal type. However, the majority of the prints feature large wood-type impressions of conversations gathered through studio visits with contemporary Chicago artists whose voices are elevated to be included in the exhibition space. As the editor and printer of the work, my role looms over the content. All of the conversations were conducted in May and June of 2024. By undertaking the process of gathering, selecting, and hand-printing fragments from conversations, I question representation and the potential for distortion, courting oversimplification while embracing absurdity.The informality of the studio visits with the artists was integral to the work as we connected through both humor and meaningful dialogues. Engaging in candid conversations, I captured moments and insights in handwritten notes and covert photographs taken with my phone. I often found myself on the same wavelength with whom I spoke, only to lose that connection and work again to reestablish it. That process became a part of my project and something I am looking to extend to the audience as they engage with the work. Selecting words and phrases from these interactions, I incorporated them into my prints using moveable wood type, creating a visual tapestry that visually unifies the perspectives. However, when one engages with reading, the unity falls into question as the words open space for more questioning than explanations.&nbsp; Through these intentional acts of dialogue-building with the audience, I sought to bridge geographical distances and forge tangible connections between artists and audiences. Exhibiting prints on paper affirms their existence as objects and insists on physicality and tactile engagement, underscoring the transformative potential of personal interactions, particularly in an era dominated by digital communication. Despite the logistical challenges posed by the pandemic, which underscored the fragility of conventional archival practices and heightened our reliance on digital mediums, my project reimagines the art of documentation through intimate, face-to-face engagements. This approach emphasizes the continued importance of building personal understandings across diverse backgrounds and locales. The resulting interactions offer a possibility for the establishment of deeper connections between the artistic communities involved as well as their audiences.Participating artists:- Hale Ekinci- Yoonshin Park- Jaclyn Jacunski- Dushko Petrovich- Kushala Vora- Michelle Marie Murphy (MMM)- Sonya Bogdanova- Millicent Kennedy- Latam Zearfoss- Joshua Taylor- Charles Ryan Long- Aya Nakamura- Kristin Abhalter Smith- Tulika Ladsariya July 2024Photos by Stijepo Brbora and Igor Brautović https://vidasacic.com/Mi-Igramo Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:35:12 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/Mi-Igramo <img width="5499" height="3714" width_o="5499" height_o="3714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/322e46e7571249a570101e4d71066f4b094759cbee93ca3073dc62f8352434af/VS_3632_smaller.jpg" data-mid="202282516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/322e46e7571249a570101e4d71066f4b094759cbee93ca3073dc62f8352434af/VS_3632_smaller.jpg" /> <img width="5748" height="4089" width_o="5748" height_o="4089" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fca7bdd1d01c3c4a01271bc023e745f109d85784b053cb39f9731cfeae4a741/VS_3640_smaller.jpg" data-mid="202282517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fca7bdd1d01c3c4a01271bc023e745f109d85784b053cb39f9731cfeae4a741/VS_3640_smaller.jpg" /> <img width="4886" height="3517" width_o="4886" height_o="3517" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/561a61742d098deec19f75801d7af6d86f0cbd27828e9457d628b35045c9f905/VS_3634A_smaller.jpg" data-mid="202282514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/561a61742d098deec19f75801d7af6d86f0cbd27828e9457d628b35045c9f905/VS_3634A_smaller.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="4936" width_o="4200" height_o="4936" data-src="//freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5015db8519ade45c0e2256df34153f3c3ed060ae0174ada802298ecd68424ea/VV_6475.jpg" data-mid="138880041" border="0" style="width: 247.97997px; height: 340.008092px; display: none;" data-scale="36"> Letterpress Mural Acrylic Paint &nbsp; Artist Publication Risography on&nbsp; Neenah Epic Black Smooth Paper 11” x 17” Edition of 100 “Mi Igramo Nogomet, Nogomet Igra Nas!” Eng. “We Play Football; Football Plays Us!” Public Works Gallery in Chicago approached me in the winter of 2022 with an interest in commissioning new artwork for their exhibit “Fútbol is Life.” I was intrigued by the cultural implications of this exhibition with a critical view of soccer culture. Soccer plays a pivotal role in enacting national identity, as I experienced growing up in Croatia in the 1990s during the breakup of Yugoslavia. The world’s most popular sport is famously theatrical. In international matches, spectators participate in the tragic defeats and glorious victories of their nations. The nationalist undertones of football fandom have been known to turn violent. The game is not only defined by us; as we get swept up in the hype, we change, and the game can grow to define us. Based on my conversations with curator Nick Butcher, I wrote an artist publication about my relationship with soccer. I began to draft ideas for a large-scale work incorporating renderings of letterpress-printed typographic forms. I translated my printing experimentations to sign painting, a medium that evokes the street culture and historical renderings of mass messaging in open spaces. Visiting the language of identity formation, I engaged with the slogan “We Build The Tracks, The Tracks Build Us!” This slogan was used during youth railroad-tracks-building work actions to evoke a sense of federal pride. It became synonymous with the sloganeering culture in former Yugoslavia. Today the words recall another time that reverberates with the present. The strong push and pull between national identities continue to be a defining feature of the region and can be experienced through sport. Appropriating the slogan, I printed the words using hand-brayered wood type and then used acrylic paint to meticulously paint the printed type at a large scale in the gallery space. By hand painting the type, I preserved the unique qualities of individual letterforms and the organic qualities of line work. The artist publication is displayed hanging to the left of the mural. The resulting large-scale installation evokes the slogans of a country that no longer exists, once a home of theatrical soccer matches that eventually erupted in violence, foreshadowing the war that was to follow (click here to read the broadside essay). December 2022 - February 2023Photos by Tom Van Eynde https://vidasacic.com/Here-Where Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:20:34 +0000 vidasacic.com https://vidasacic.com/Here-Where <img width="2400" height="1619" width_o="2400" height_o="1619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58b75cd8f52af4f2dba495b2a4bf9fcb09061647258355a99ecb71c490ecc683/Flexspace_Install_2.jpg" data-mid="209337715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58b75cd8f52af4f2dba495b2a4bf9fcb09061647258355a99ecb71c490ecc683/Flexspace_Install_2.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="1780" width_o="2400" height_o="1780" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/812283458b7e2c7f37069b26310404fcb35b890d94036aef17e3ac046f111513/Flexspace_Install_1.jpg" data-mid="209337714" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/812283458b7e2c7f37069b26310404fcb35b890d94036aef17e3ac046f111513/Flexspace_Install_1.jpg" /> Letterpress print Mohawk Chromolux paper Letterpress print Stonehenge paper Wood Risography Neenah Epic Black&nbsp; Mylar Artist Publication Risography on Neenah Epic Black Smooth Paper 11” x 17” edition of 100 “Tu Si, Gdje?” Eng. “You Are Here, Where?” As a person who lives in a country different to my country of origin, I find my day punctuated with correspondence and contact with another place. This inhabiting of different worlds in parallel means that I am balancing two realities and a seven hour time difference. The necessary negotiation is a universal experience for those of us with diasporic identities. Diasporic communities in countries often form to substitute the idea of “home,” that which provides parameters for identity for us all. The tension inherent in transnationalism and the necessary communication in the context of globalization encapsulates the experience of being global. As continued contact via technology provides a sense of simultaneity between places it also creates new cultural meanings. In this site-specific installation created for the Flexspace gallery, I built the environment to function as a storytelling space reflecting the diasporic dialogues through time. Multiple works on paper interact to create a linguistic space of exchange. The language used is sourced from letters that America immigrants wrote to their families abroad between year 1860 and 1950. This correspondence is now a part of the permanent archive at University of Minnesota. The language reflects contemporary immigrant concerns, as well as the darkness, humor and the immigrant experience. One of the works (#5) is incorporates my personal correspondence. I shared some of my findings and correspondence with my community and my students. Because I teach in an HSI Hispanic-serving institution with a large immigrant population from all over the world, I often share my students' life experiences. While talking to these young artists, I realized we all have saved examples of such correspondence. My students shared theirs with me. I also used their contributions in this work and created it in a community with these young artists. The installation is accompanied by a risograph printed broadside discussing the works in more detail (click here to read the broadside essay). All works were created during my residency at Flexspace Gallery at Riverside Arts Center. 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