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Lisa Glenn Armstrong is a Chicago-based designer, musician, and educator whose work explores the shifting boundaries between emergent technologies and traditional print processes, treating both as living systems rather than fixed tools. By weaving together sound design, moving image, and light, she creates sensory environments that invite reflection, disorientation, and reorientation—encouraging audiences to question perception and uncover the layered nature of human experience. Collaboration is central to her approach, building frameworks that prioritize collective authorship, shared inquiry, and community engagement. Her work often unfolds as an open-ended process, where outcomes are shaped through participation.

Rooted in Chicago’s creative and mutual aid ecosystems, Lisa serves on the board of the Chicago Printers Guild as part of the Design Bureau and is a volunteer organizer with Love Fridge Chicago, advocating for food sovereignty through accessible, community-powered infrastructure. Her musical practice extends these values into sound, as one half of the electronic duo Drasii and as co-producer of Chando Radio on Lumpen Radio. She founded Shape Shift Press in 2024, a platform for publishing artist books, writing, and collaborative print works that foreground experimentation, hybridity, and collective voice.

She has exhibited work in the Chicago Cultural Center, Art on theMart, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago Art Department, Roman Susan Gallery, and Boundary Space Chicago. In 2025, she won a 3Arts Make a Wave grant in recognition of her work. Her printed posters and publications are archived in the CalArts Poster Design Archive, the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago’s Open Archive, Harold Washington Library Special Collections, and the Chicago Design Archive. Across mediums, Lisa’s practice is guided by a commitment to connection—between people, disciplines, and ways of sensing the world.

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