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Chimera Press
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Chicago-based print and textile studio powered by Susannah Hera. Glitchy prints & modern, edgy textiles. Ancient practice and traditional craft combined with innovation and technology.

Birder, nature photographer, horror aficionado.

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I’m gonna call bullshit here. If you only boycott during Black Friday sales you’re ultimately giving companies more money paying full price later. STOP giving these companies your business. PERIOD. If you give them your money ever you fund fascism. #boycottTarget #boycottHomeDepot #boycottAmazon
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Walkthrough of the 7th AIMPE (Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2025), although they aren’t so mini to me. #print #art #bskyart #bskyprintmaking #artexhibition #woodcut #blockprint #mokuhanga #chimerapress #womeninprint 🎥: @awagami_factory on Insta
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Pleased to share my abstract print ‘Umatilla’ was given an honorable mention at the 7th Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition. The exhibition runs through 9 November, 2025. #mokuhanga #woodcut #japanesewatercolorwoodcut #blockprint #print #chimerapress #abstract #printmaker #womeninprint
Mokuhanga abstract print by Susannah Hera of Chimera Press with neutral medium blue flanking either side of an undulating shape that comes to a point in the upper left quadrant. The flanked shape is grey in the bottom third, sea foam in the central third, and cool, muted yellow in the top third. Gomazuri and baren-suji are utilized by the artist to render the image.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Waited a 1/4 century to fulfill this promise to myself. Good whiskey to toast the demise of a bad man. I don’t think it’s bad for good people to celebrate less evil in the world, especially when evil got to live for so long & die peacefully surrounded by loved-ones. It’s more than he deserved #IYKYK
Photo of a glass of whisky in the left hand of an artist in her studio. Brushes on shelves in the background out of focus. She’s toasting the demise of evil asshole Dick Cheney.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Halloween is almost here! Bringing some ghouls and ghosties to life in the studio for spooks and giggles! #ilovehalloween #halloweenisalifestyle #chimerapress #halloween #fiberart #wetfelting #ghosts #textile #studiotime #horror
October 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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The c3pO mask had like a 1/8-1/4” wide slit about 1.5-2” long. So damned sharp.

Halloween is almost here!!
Photo of a room with blood dripping down the walls with a lamp and tv on the left and the words “caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent.” at the bottom.
October 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The c3pO mask had like a 1/8-1/4” wide slit about 1.5-2” long. So damned sharp.
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The Awagami International Mini Print Exhibition is now running through the 9th of November! If you’re near 141 Kawahigashi, Yamakawa, Yoshinogawa City it’s gonna be awesome. You should go! If you’re lucky enough to go say hi to my print.:) #AIMPE #print #printmaking #art #chimerapress
Poster advertising the 7th AIMPE exhibition from 10/11-11/9 2025. 4 prints are shown on the top half with information on how to visit the exhibition between and below.
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Too bad no one is going to see it.🤷‍♀️
September 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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I’ll post some artwork I’ve been slogging away on soon. For now…every little bit counts. We are the ones who allow oligarchs & fascist companies to exist if we give them our money. DISNEY can suck my proverbial balls! We all know what kind of biz you really are now. #boycottDisneyABC #canceledHulu
September 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Red-necked Phalarope who has no business being anywhere near me who is making the best of the situation. Blown east by one storm & into another? Only this l’il bebs who could fit in my hand knows. So much gratitude for the small moment with this #lifer #bird #protectwhatyoulove 🪶
May 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I always call these moments ‘Birding Bonuses’.🪶Nature and wildlife always inspire my artwork. This 13-lined Ground Squirrel & I shared a moment. They were super chill which gave me a chance to really enjoy that beeeautiful pattern. Thx, bubs! #protectwhatyoulove #nature #wildlife #art #camouflage
13-lined ground squirrel standing up on its back legs with head turned to the side and dot and line pattern on back in full view surrounded by prairie plants.
May 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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While you fight to protect what you love, stop and love what you love, then you can find the strength to fight to protect what you love some more.

Stop for 28 seconds and love a Solitary Sandpiper with me if you like. I love birds.🪶 Now let’s go fight. #protectwhatyoulove #birds #birding #nature
May 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Different take on an abstract with the same blocks. In the moment gut decisions, sensing the direction the work desires, is such a different process from my usual approach, feeling compelled to make a particular piece. #art #print #woodcut #blockprint #mokuhanga #printmaking #abstract #chimerapress
Abstract full bleed mokuhanga woodcut with a large non-representational rounded shape in the upper right quadrant in red with atenashi bokashi in the outer half of the shape. There is a strong darker red atenashi bokashi with bleeding lines around the edge of the dominant shape. The majority of the surface area of the print has gray values in gomazuri. Thin white bars with rounded ends cut through the surface and behind the dominant shape. Pale indigo bokashis exists at the bottom left corner and right side along the entire edge.
April 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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‘Fauxkashi Sunrise with Yamanashi White-Eyes’ (screen print, 28cm x 38cm)🪶

Warbling White-Eyes (Zosterops japonicus) #birds #bokashi #kacho-e #print #printmaking #screenprint #silkscreen #cherryblossoms #chimerapress
Silkscreen in the traditional Japanese kacho-e “bird and flower” style. Two Japanese White-Eyes are feeding at the end of a cherry tree branch in bloom. The blooms are two-tone pink, there is a 3-color bokashi sky in blue and peach color below the branches.
April 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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‘Abstract Study #2’ (woodcut)

A few years ago I realized while easily drawn to abstract art, I’d never built abstract work myself. Why not?

I set a goal to include the abstract in my oeuvre and it has expanded my understanding of why I’m compelled to make art.❤️ #print #art #woodcut #blockprint
Abstract watercolor woodcut with a dominant shape in light blue in the upper right quadrant. Darker shades of blue build gradients at the top, right, and bottom of the print. Six white, slender rods cut through the image vertically, tipped in light blue on one or both ends. A dark indigo mottling covers the surface excluding the white rods and dominant shape.
April 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Untitled abstract woodcut in oil-based ink. #abstract #art #woodcut #blockprint #printmaking #print
Woodcut abstract with light blue background and larger red shape with a circle of negative space at the top and a similar and smaller shape in purple overlapping the larger shape.
April 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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*Ongoing* like our gratitude, Senator Booker.🙏❤️✊
@booker.senate.gov
Wikipedia page showing Cory Booker holds the record for longest U.S. filibuster beating racist Strom Thurmond while the filibuster is ongoing. Red is circling the word “ongoing”.
April 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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‘Off to Bedfordshire’ (7cm x 7cm) is an homage to my squirrels. It is an itty bitty teeny tiny print. If you’d like to see it in person alongside 399 other prints go to PopUp Galerie at Hansastr. 17, Bottrop, Germany 11-5 (except Tues.) thru 31 March, 2025! Sold on website. #print #art #squirrel
7cm x 7cm print of a squirrel sitting in a tree with grass below all in silhouette and a multicolored sunset in the background.
March 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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There’s still time to check out my teeny tiny (7 cm x 7 cm) print along with 499 other lovely teeny tiny prints at PopUp Galerie, Hansastr. 17 in Bottrop, Germany until 31 March, 2025. They’re open from 11:00 am-5:00 pm (closed on Tuesdays).

#print #printmaking #tinyprint #linocut #tinypress #art
March 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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February 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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‘barn owl 4’ (screen print,
16.5”x12”)🪶

A Super Owl if ever I saw one, the Barn Owl. Tyto alba has an alien face to just about die for.
Available on my site. #SuperOwl #barnowl #birds #screeprint #art #print #valentinesday #natureart #owl #printmaking #womensart
Glitchy screen print of a Barn Owl on a branch in yellow, grey, and black.
February 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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‘World Above, World Below’
Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, patiently hunting from the banks. Yeah, they’re common, but always badass.🪶 #naturephotography #art #natureart #SciArt #birds #womeninart #photography
Glitchy photo of a Great Blue Heron standing on a fallen tree on a pond bank in the distance. Foreground shows a pond in intense electric teal with a bright red haze superimposed over the heron and trees.
February 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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‘You Stink!’
(screen print, 7”x5”)

Multi-purpose. Send it to someone you freaking adore or send it someone you’re fed up with #screenprint #art #print #printmaking #valentinesday #babyskunk #skunk
Screen print of a baby skunk with its tail raised and “You Stink!” above it.
February 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Monochromatic woodcut
#woodcut #blockprint #art #print #womensart #natureart #lowchroma #printmaking
Woodcut of snow-capped mountains, sparse clouds in the sky, and evergreens in the foreground, all in a monochromatic low chroma transparent green.
February 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM