Jess Meichsner
Jess Meichsner is a graphic designer and visual artist from Sartell, Minnesota. She is interested in sustainability, reusing discarded materials, and investigating the things in life collectively deemed worthless.
Critter Collective is a group of artists with a wide variety of interests and media, but a common interest in zines. We formed our collective out of a desire to maintain a sense of community post-college, for critique, collaboration, and inspiration.
Chloe Blue
I’m Chloe Blue (she/her) and I design for the dead by day and create art for the living by night. In other words, I work professionally as a memorial designer and make art in my free time. My personal work consists mostly of illustrating. Drawing is my first love and the thing that makes me feel the most human. Portraiture is what I specialize in, as I have always gravitated to the human form. I would describe my work as cute meets sexy meets spooky. I am inspired by dolls, Victorian - mid-20th century aesthetics, the paranormal, fashion, and Halloween. Themes of self-expression, feminism, body-positivity, and sexuality are prevalent in my work.
Bryan Gratz
I am interested in sets and systems, both simulated and naturally-occurring. My artwork captures emergent behaviors, through process-based experimentation with materials, programmatic iteration, and typologies of repetition. Many of my zines are a manifestation of these principles, others reference social and political critique, and some are just for fun.
