Celebrating Robert J. Morrison
2019-06-30 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, United States
The Print Center and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts invite
family and friends of Bob Morrison to celebrate his life:
Sunday, June 30, 2019, 2 – 4pm
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118-128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Rhoden Arts Center
Obituary
The Print Center has established The Robert J. Morrison Fund to continue his legacy of support for prints, artist books and mentoring collectors.
Donations can be made online; mailed to The Print Center at 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103; or by phone at 215.735.6090 x1.
All donations to The Print Center are 100% tax deductible.

The Print Center is a federal tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization and is registered as a charitable organization with the Pennsylvania Department of State’s Bureau of Charitable Organizations.

ARTIST TALK + BYO SOCIAL
2019-08-22 06:00 - 19:30
In conjunction with the Gallery Store Feature Exhibition Saleem Ahmed: Land of Kings, we welcome Ahmed to discuss his work, family and culture. After the talk, join us for a drink and a casual conversation with the artist.
BYO Socials bring artists and art appreciators together for informal conversation and the chance to see new artwork.

Image: Saleem Ahmed (left) and friends at The Print Center
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Gallery Talk with the Artists and Curator + Opening Reception
2019-09-12 17:30 - 19:30
Gallery Talk: 5:30pm
Reception: 6:00 – 7:30pm
Ksenia Nouril will guide a walkthrough of the exhibitions with contributions from artists.
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Gallery Talk & Book Launch | Keith Carter
2019-10-02 18:00 - 19:30
Keith Carter, Deliberately Insulting, 2018, pigment print, edition of 5. Courtesy of the Artist

Keith Carter leads a walkthrough of the exhibition Keith Carter: Seek & Find followed by a signing of his newest book Keith Carter: Fifty Years (University of Texas Press, 2018).
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Intimate Dinner With Keith Carter
2019-10-02 19:30 - 21:30
Keith Carter, Tea Stain, 2018. Courtesy of the Artist

Hosted by Crystal Gurin in her South Philadelphia home.
Following Carter’s Gallery Talk and Book Signing at The Print Center.
Purchase your Ticket today!
$75 Dinner with Keith Carter
$125 Dinner PLUS a Signed Copy of Keith Carter Fifty Years
or, call Mikaela Hawk at 215.735.6090 x1 to RSVP
Exhibition | Keith Carter: Seek & Find

Lecture by Keith Carter, at the University of Pennsylvania
2019-10-03 18:00 - 19:30
Keith Carter, Letters and Arts, 2018, pigment print, edition of 5. Courtesy of the Artist

University of Pennsylvania
Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Thursday, October 3, 6:00pm
Keith Carter speaks about his career with a focus on his most recent series “Walt Whitman: ‘Beautiful Imperfect Things’”.
Exhibition | Keith Carter; Seek & Find

Artist Lecture by Bethany Collins, at The University of the Arts
2019-10-10 13:00 - 14:30
Bethany Collins, America: A Hymnal, 2017, book with 100 laser cut leaves, 6” x 9” x 1”, special edition of 25. Courtesy of the Artist and PATRON Gallery, Chicago

The University of the Arts
Gershman Hall, Elaine C. Levitt Auditorium
401 South Broad Street Philadelphia
Bethany Collins speaks about her career, exploring how race and language interact in her work through drawing, printmaking, sculpture and performance.
Exhibition: The Politics of Rhetoric, at The Print Center

Collins is the 2019 Libby Newman Visiting Artist in Fine Arts, Expanded Drawing+Printmaking at The University of the Arts.

A Conversation with Bethany Collins + Amber Rose Johnson
2019-10-10 18:00 - 19:30
Bethany Collins. Photo: Chris Edward
Amber Rose Johnson. Photo: Christian Hayden
Exhibiting artist Bethany Collins joins Philadelphia-based writer and editor Amber Rose Johnson in conversation about the uses and abuses of language in art within the context of the exhibition The Politics of Rhetoric.

Bethany Collins (b. 1984, Montgomery, AL) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist who examines the relationship between race and language in her work. She earned a BA in studio art and visual journalism from the University of Alabama, 2007 and an MFA in drawing and painting from Georgia State University, 2012.
Collins has had solo exhibitions at The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal; and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, all 2019; Patron Gallery, Chicago, 2017 and 2018; Locust Projects, Miami, 2018; Center for Book Arts, New York, 2018; Davidson College Smith Gallery, Davidson, NC, 2016; and Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA, 2015.
Selected group exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Smart Museum, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; and Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, all 2019; Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; and the Richard M. Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, all 2018; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, both 2017; as well as The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2014 and 2017. Additional selected New York group exhibitions include those at Galerie Lelong, The Drawing Center and Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, all 2016. Collins’ work has been included in exhibitions internationally at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; and the University of Toronto Art Centre Barnicke Gallery, both 2015.
The artist has received awards, grants, fellowships and residencies including The LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Artadia Award, 2019; Artist Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council Agency, 2019; the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, 2018; Jackman Goldwasser Residency and Hyde Park Art Center Residency, 2016; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency; Hudgens Prize; and Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, all 2015; The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist-in-Residence, 2013-2014; and the Artadia Award, 2014, among others.
Her work is part of many public collections including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; University of Virginia, Special Collections Library, Charlottesville; The Art Institute of Chicago; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; The University of Chicago; Agnes Scott University, Decatur, GA; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Illinois State University, Special Collections Department, Normal; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia; and The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.

Amber Rose Johnson is a creative and critical thinker from Providence, RI currently based in Philadelphia. In her practice, she is invested in exploring the intersections between experimental poetics, performance and critical theory throughout the Black Diaspora as well as how various manifestations of “poetics of relation” can move us toward new ways of thinking, knowing and being together. She currently is pursuing a PhD in English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and previously held a research appointment in the Women and Gender Studies Department at the University of Toronto as a Fulbright Scholar. Her editorial projects include the exhibition catalog for Colored People Time at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and the exhibition catalog for Great Force at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA. Her writing has been featured in BOMB Magazine and Jacket2. Johnson is the curator of a conversation and workshop series on creative process entitled Mess + Process and is the co-coordinator of the Black Cultural Studies Collective, both in Philadelphia.

The Print Center is pleased to acknowledge the support of The Libby Newman Visiting Artist Lecture, Fine Arts, Expanded Drawing+Printmaking, The University of the Arts.
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Open Door at the Rail Park and Site/Sound
2019-10-15 18:00 - 19:30
Mockup of Moon Viewing Platform, Courtesy of Site/Sound.
Join us for a walking tour of the Philadelphia Rail Park, with artist Sarah McEneaney, who was the driving force behind developing this shared urban space rising from the tracks and thoroughfares that were once the terminus of the mighty Reading Railroad. McEneaney now serves as the Vice Chair of the Rail Park’s Board of Directors.
In addition to touring the Rail Park, we will view a number of temporary, site-specific audio-visual installations from Site/Sound: Revealing the Rail Park. We will be joined by artist Matthew Suib, who will talk with us about the installation Moon Viewing Platform, which he created with Nadia Hironaka and Eugene Lew in conjunction with Mural Arts Philadelphia.
Moon Viewing Platform is an interdisciplinary public installation that will transform an inhospitable and disused stretch of open-air land into a large-scale performance/gathering space featuring regular acts of caring, a stage and building-sized nighttime video projections featuring an episodic series of short films. The garden/installation references the karesansui (Japanese dry landscape garden), as it becomes a set for a series of short videos and musical performances, inviting audiences to enter another world through the senses and the imagination and provides the opportunity to engage in intimate commemorative gatherings that celebrate compassion, creativity, and community as essential components of human life.
The installation’s viewing sites are wheelchair accessible.
Open Door offers unique behind-the-scenes tours at Philadelphia’s most intriguing cultural sites.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required.
RSVP to Mikaela Hawk by October 14 at Mhawk@printcenter.org or 215.735.6090 x1

Panel on Race, Sexuality, and Whitman
2019-10-16 18:00 - 19:30
Keith Carter, Poem of The Black Person, 2018, pigment print, edition of 5. Courtesy of the Artist
Writer Lavelle Porter, artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase and Whitman at 200 curator Judith Tannenbaum join Ksenia Nouril in a panel discussion addressing race and sexuality in the work of Walt Whitman. Using examples from their respective practices, the panelists will reflect on the implications of Whitman’s writings on issues of race and sexuality today.

Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Jonathan Lyndon Chase is an interdisciplinary artist principally working in modes of painting, video and sculpture to depict queer black love and community amid the backdrop of urban and domestic spaces. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; Company Gallery, New York; and Pond Society, Shanghai, China. Chase has participated in group exhibitions at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; The Bunker, Collection of Beth Rudin De-Woody, Palm Beach; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Woodmere Art Museum, both Philadelphia; and Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke. Chase’s work is included in numerous private and public collections such as the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Bronx Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; ICA Miami and Rubell Family Collection, both Miami; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Woodmere Museum of Art, both Philadelphia as well as Buxton Contemporary Art Museum, Melbourne, Australia and The Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada. Born in Philadelphia, Chase continues to live and work in this city.

Lavelle Porter
Lavelle Porter holds BA in history from Morehouse College, Atlanta and a PhD in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual (Northwestern University Press: Evanston, 2019). A native of Meridian, Mississippi, Porter is currently Assistant Professor of English at New York City College of Technology (City Tech), CUNY. His writing has appeared in publications, including The New Inquiry, Poetry Foundation, and JSTOR Daily, and he is a blogger for Black Perspectives. Porter serves on the Board of Directors of the CLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He also has worked as a licensed New York City walking tour guide and teaches courses on New York City literature and history.

Judith Tannenbaum. Photo: Jan Howard.

Judith Tannenbaum is the Artistic Director of Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy, a region-wide initiative organized by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Kislak Center supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Tannenbaum served as curator, associate director, and interim director at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia between 1986 and 2000. In 1989-90, she defended public funding for the arts and artistic freedom in relation to the controversial Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition, The Perfect Moment, originated by ICA. Between 2000 and 2013, Tannenbaum was the Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI where her exhibitions included What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present (2014); Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast (2014); Lynda Benglis (2010); and Island Nations: New Art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Diaspora (2004). Since returning to Philadelphia, Tannenbaum organized Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie (2017) at the Barnes Foundation and Framing Fraktur: Word & Image (2015) at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Tannenbaum holds an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia.

Exhibition | Keith Carter: Seek & Find
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Crack Up-Crack Down: Slavs and Tatars on Curating the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts
2019-10-22 18:00 - 19:30
Hinko Smrekar, Slovenian Art Exhibition, c. 1910. © Narodna galerija, Ljubljana.

The art collective Slavs and Tatars will speak about their curatorial debut Crack Up-Crack Down: 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts (June 7 – September 29, 2019), which brought together 30 international and regional artists to explore the graphic language of satire. Founded in 1955, The Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts is the oldest biennial dedicated to the medium. In their talk at The Print Center, Slavs and Tatars will highlight how they used the exhibition as a medium to literally and strategically refocused “the graphic” for the twenty-first century.

About the Artists
Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to an area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research. The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications and lecture-performances. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Salt, Istanbul; Vienna Secession, Kunsthalle Zurich; Albertinum, Dresden and Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, among others. Slavs and Tatars has published ten books to date, including Wripped Scripped (Hatje Cantz, 2018) on language politics as well as Molla Nasreddin (currently in its 2nd edition with I.B Tauris, 2017), a translation of the legendary Azerbaijani satirical periodical. The collective’s focus on Eurasia challenges our often times one-dimensional way of seeing relationships between science, religion, power and identity. Their work is currently featured in the main exhibition “May You Live in Interesting Times,” of the 58th Venice Biennale. Slavs and Tatars is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (NYC), Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin), Raster Gallery (Warsaw) and The Third Line (Dubai).

This program is supported by John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College.
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Conversation + Book Signing with Henry Horenstein
2019-10-25 17:30 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join us for an evening with Henry Horenstein! The artist will discuss the work included in his exhibition at Swarthmore College on view until October 27, including a series made in Cuba in 2000, shown for the first time, as well as upcoming projects.
Horenstein will also sign copies of Henry Horenstein: Selected Works, published by the List Gallery, Swarthmore College, in conjunction with the exhibition. The 60 page, hard bound book includes tipped in images on the front and back covers, 41 plates from the series “Animalia”,” Humans” and “Cuba”, with an essay by Andrea Packard in an edition of 300.
The book lists for $50, but we will have 30 copies available at a special price of $40. Available for preorder here.

Book Launch with John Lehr
2019-10-29 18:00 - 19:30
In celebration of his publication The Island Position, newly released by MACK books, John Lehr will speak about the book and his practice with Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

As described by the publisher, “The ‘Island Position’ is an advertising term that describes the premium position of an advertisement surrounded solely by editorial content. In The Island Position, John Lehr explores the facades of American commercial spaces that are threatened by the emergence of e-commerce. In a rush to remain relevant, storeowners emblazon their windows and walls with anything that will grab attention: tessellations of quick-fading ads, floor-to-ceiling decals of fanned money or flowing hair, haphazard product displays, and desperate, hand-scrawled invitations. They repaint, renovate, rebrand, and rearrange, gestures which point to the desires and anxieties of people who are being left behind as our thumbs lead us into the new economy. The work presents a turning point in our cultural landscape: the transition from a physical culture to a virtual one.”

The book is 112 pages and includes a short story by George Saunders. It will be available for purchase at the launch.
John Lehr received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Yale University. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library and Museum and Museum of Modern Art, all New York; and Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ. Lehr has been reviewed widely, in publications including Artforum, Art in America, Artinfo, Artnews, The Brooklyn Rail, Collector Daily, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post. His recent publications include newflesh (Gnomic Book: New York, 2019), PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture: New York, 2019), Photography is Magic (Aperture: New York, 2015) and The Pure Products of America Go Crazy (Center for Creative Photography: Tuscon, 2015). He is the author of El Camino Real (Roman Nvmerals: New York, 2016) and The Island Position (MACK: London, 2018).

Peter Barberie is the Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut, Storrs and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of photography and modern art from Princeton University. Since 2008 he has organized more than twenty-five exhibitions, including Long Light: Photographs by David Lebe (2019), the first survey devoted to the American photographer; WILD: Michael Nichols (2017), a survey of Nichols’ photography of the natural world creatively installed with art on similar themes from across the Museum’s collection; Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography (2014), an in-depth retrospective of Strand’s photography and films that traveled to several European venues; and Zoe Strauss: Ten Years (2012), a mid-career survey of Strauss’s photography and her closely related efforts at public engagement. His publications include Long Light: Photographs by David Lebe (2019); Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography (2014); Zoe Strauss: Ten Years (2012); Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery (2006); and Looking at Atget (2005) as well as an essay for the exhibition catalogue Charles Marville, Photographer of Paris (ed. Sarah Kennel, published by the National Gallery of Art: Washington with University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2013).
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Letterpress Workshop with Common Press
2019-11-02 13:00 - 15:00
Keith Carter, How Can You Be So Sweet, 2018, pigment print, edition of 5. Courtesy of the Artist

Master printer Mary Tasillo of Common Press, the letterpress and book arts studio at the University of Pennsylvania, leads an interactive, hands-on workshop inspired by Whitman’s poetry. Spotlight talks on topics including the technique of letterpress and the history of Whitman as a printmaker will take place throughout the duration of the workshop.
Exhibition | Keith Carter: Seek & Find
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Performance by María Verónica San Martín
2019-11-07 18:00 - 19:00
María Verónica San Martín, Dignidad, 2019, performance featuring Paloma Estevez and the artist at The Center for Book Arts, New York. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: Wonwoo Lee

María Verónica San Martín performs a 30-minute endurance-driven performance in conjunction with her installation Dignidad featuring actress Yael Barnatan and music by Felipe Valenzuela. The performance features a musical composition based on audiotapes of conversations recorded at Colonia Dignidad the infamously isolated Chilean settlement, founded in the 1960s by Nazi agents.
Exhibition | The Politics of Rhetoric
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Panel with Sharon Hayes, Sarah McEneaney and Keris Salmon
2019-11-13 18:00 - 19:00
Sharon Hayes, Sarah McEneaney and Keris Salmon join Ksenia Nouril in conversation about their works within the context of the exhibition The Politics of Rhetoric. Topics will include approaches to history through archives and the role of the news media in their works.

Sharon Hayes (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD) is a Philadelphia-based multi-media artist, whose work addresses the intersections of history, art and politics through video, performance, photography and installation. She is Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.
Sarah McEneaney (b. 1955, Munich, Germany) is a Philadelphia-based artist and community activist who is well known for creating intricately detailed and intimately autobiographical works.
Keris Salmon (b. 1959, New York, NY) is a New York-based multimedia artist and award winning broadcast journalist whose work reckons with the legacies of both personal and collective histories.
All of The Print Center’s Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.
Images:
Left: Sharon Hayes, The Nature of the Beast, Pussycat, 2019. Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia, collaborating Master Printer: Peter Haarz. Courtesy of the Artist and the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia. Photo by Barbara Katus
Middle: Sarah McEneaney, Untitled, from the series “#wehavenopresident”, 2016 – present. Courtesy of the Artist
Right: Keris Salmon, Dew and Damp, from the series “We Have Made These Lands What They Are: The Architecture of Slavery,” 2016-2017. Printed and produced by Sayre Gaydos and Peter Kruty at Peter Kruty Editions, published by Sockeyelabs. Courtesy of the Artist and Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta

94th ANNUAL Solo Exhibitions | Gallery Talks + Opening Reception
2020-01-16 17:30 - 19:30
Gallery Talks: 5:30pm
Opening Reception: 6:00 – 7:30pm

Miguel A. Aragón: Indices of Silence/Índices del silencio
Aragón’s heroic-sized prints address the war on drugs unfolding in his hometown of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Using innovative print techniques, such as cutting woodblocks and paper with an industrial-grade hand drill, he creates gripping portraits that humanize the victims of this violence.

Young Sun Han: The Unforever Parallel
Approaching loss from both personal and collective points of view, Han explores his family narratives through the geopolitical history of North and South Korea in the 20th century. He traces the immigrant experience across the 38th parallel north (the border between these two countries). His photo-based installations poetically depict the places rooted in these histories.

Ron Tarver: An Overdue Conversation With My Father
Tarver reimagines the African American experience in the U.S. under Jim Crow, as interpreted through the lens of his father Richard Tarver, a photographer who captured this community in Fort Gibson, OK during the 1940s and 50s. Looking back at his father’s archive and appropriating its imagery, Tarver reworks them to reflect on the history of the tight-knit African American community in Fort Gibson, re-presenting its triumphs and tribulations.

Press Release

The Philadelphia Flyover Flyer | Launch + Reading
2020-01-22 18:00 - 19:30
The Philadelphia Flyover Flyer (detail), 2019
The Print Center is pleased to host the launch of The Philadelphia Flyover Flyer, one of a series of flyers complementing The Daily Gentrifier, an artist-made broadsheet about art and real estate development in New York and Los Angeles. Flyover Flyers document events related to art and real estate in “flyover” cities between the East and West Coasts.
Edited and published by Dushko Petrovich (artist and Director, New Arts Journalism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), The Philadelphia Flyover Flyer was designed by Philadelphia printmaker Aaron Gemmill and printed by Marc Fischer of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press. It is a risograph print with text contributions from Jennie Shanker, Wende Marshall, and Gregory Laynor. Contributors will read from and discuss the creation of the flyer, which will be available free of charge at the launch.
Other Flyover Flyers include The Columbus Flyover Flyer, produced in collaboration with the Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art and Design in 2018. Future flyers will focus on Chicago, Detroit and Nashville.

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Artist Talk, Young Sun Han: The Unforever Parallel
2020-02-06 18:30 - 19:30
Young Sun Han, Passages From a Memoir: Dadaepo Beach, Dadaepo Horizon, and Busan Harbor, 2019
Artist Talk, Young Sun Han
The Unforever Parallel
Approaching loss from both personal and collective points of view, Han explores his family narratives through the geopolitical history of North and South Korea in the 20th century. He traces the immigrant experience across the 38th parallel north (the border between these two countries). His photo-based installations poetically depict the places rooted in these histories.
This event is free and open to the public.

Artist Talk, Ron Tarver: An Overdue Conversation With My Father
2020-02-20 18:00 - 19:30
Ron Tarver, Hello Darling, 2017
Artist Ron Tarver will be joined by Ksenia Nouril, our Jensen Bryan Curator, to discuss Ron’s exhibition An Overdue Conversation With My Father, now on view as part of the 94th ANNUAL Solo Shows. Tarver reimagines the African American experience in the U.S. under Jim Crow, interpreted through the lens of his father Richard Tarver, a photographer who captured this community in Fort Gibson, OK during the 1940s and 50s. Looking back at his father’s archive and appropriating its imagery, Tarver reworked them to reflect on the history of the tight-knit African American community in Fort Gibson, re-presenting its triumphs and tribulations.
This event is free and open to the public.

Book Launch, Ken Lum, Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018
2020-03-04 18:00 - 19:30
Join us to celebrate Ken Lum‘s latest book: Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018. Lum is the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and Chair, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. His exceptional career includes participation in Documenta 11 and the Gwangju, Istanbul, Moscow, São Paulo and Whitney Biennials. He is the co-founder and Chief Curatorial Advisor for Monument Lab. His public artworks are installed in St. Louis, MO as well as in Vienna, Austria; Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; Leiden, Rotterdam and Utrecht, The Netherlands; and Zuoz, Switzerland. He has received Guggenheim and Pew Fellowships, and has co-curated exhibitions for the 7th Sharjah Biennial and Monument Lab.
The book addresses Lum’s career; critical histories of modern, postmodern and contemporary art; and debates around issues such as race, class and monumentality. Penetrating, insightful and often moving, Lum’s writings are essential for understanding his prescient and internationally recognized practice.
Lum will be joined in conversation by art historian Alexander Alberro, (Virginia Bloedel Wright ’51 Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University, New York) and will sign books, which will be available for purchase.
The book includes an introduction by Kitty Scott, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Canada and co-curator of Lum’s 2002 retrospective. Ken Lum, Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018, (2020), 7 1/2″ x 11″, published by Concordia University Press, 320 pages, 12 color illustrations, 48 black & white illustrations, $65.00.
Available for order here.

William Earle Williams: Party Pictures | Launch Party
2020-03-12 18:00 - 19:30
Please join us for a Launch Party at The Print Center!
The new monograph William Earle Williams: Party Pictures is dedicated to the artist’s acclaimed series of the same name. Williams’ insightful photographs taken in the 1970s and 80s revel in the details of a particular moment and reveal the unspoken cues of class, race and gender. In Party Pictures, you will find blue-blood doyennes in starched lace and society upstarts dripping with jewels alongside A-list celebrities and blue-collar wait staff. Williams employed his status as an artist to access otherwise inaccessible social events in Philadelphia, such as highbrow charity galas, as well as counter-culture costume parties and other gatherings.
William Earle Williams: Party Pictures was inspired by a 2011 exhibition of this work at The Print Center. Texts include an essay by The Print Center’s former Jensen Bryan Curator John Caperton, connecting the “Party Pictures” to Williams’ other bodies of work, an interview between Williams and Edith Newhall, art critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer and ARTnews, and an introduction by The Print Center’s Executive Director Elizabeth Spungen.
Williams is Professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Photography at Haverford College, PA. His photographs have been exhibited widely, including at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Duke University, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Smith College, George Eastman House and National Gallery of Art. His work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Williams has received individual artist fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Party Pictures is a fascinating record of the time, touching on the history of photography, the legacy of Philadelphia and the societal changes of the late 20th century.
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William Earle Williams PARTY PICTURES
Published by The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (February 2020). Hardbound with tipped-in cover image, 8 ½” x 8 ½”, 92 pages, 44 black and white tritone plates and 29 illustrations, in an edition of 500. Designed by Laurie Churchman, printed by Brilliant, Exton, PA. Available from The Print Center for $65.
Special Edition
A special edition includes a signed book and a gelatin silver print of Untitled, 1981/2020 (the cover image) in an edition of 20 with 5 APs. Retailing for $600, the special edition is available at a pre-launch price of $550 through March 11, 2020.
Books and Special Editions are available through The Print Center Gallery Store. To make a purchase contact Evan Laudenslager, Sales & Program Manager, at elaudenslager@printcenter.org, 215.735.6090 x2 or order online.
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Press Release
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‘William Earle Williams: Party Pictures,’ The Eye of Photography, March 2020 pdf
‘William Earle Williams PARTY PICTURES.’ All About Photo, February 2020 pdf

Artist Talk with Miguel A. Aragón
2020-06-25 17:00 - 18:00
Aragón in the studio, Photo: Xavier Minguella
The Print Center is pleased to partner with the Manhattan Graphics Center (MGC) to present an artist talk with Miguel A. Aragón, joined by Ksenia Nouril, our Jensen Bryan Curator, and Sarah Kirk Hanley, MGC’s Executive Director.
Aragón will talk about his career and themes related to his ongoing work, which was exhibited in Miguel A. Aragón: Indices of Silence/Índices del silencio (January 17 – March 13, 2020) at The Print Center.
Miguel A. Aragón (born Ciudad Juárez, México; lives Staten Island, NY) is a printmaker whose work explores memory, perception and loss in relation to the mass murders, arrests and corruption associated with the war on drugs in and beyond his hometown.
Working in a sophisticated array of media and techniques on paper, from physical alteration of photocopies to wood burned-embossing, puncturing and chemical alteration, Aragón’s process ties directly to his concept and subject matter. He alters and distorts enlarged photographs of victims using forceful reductive processes that evoke loss and pain. Aragón’s charred, poked, drilled and erased images directly correlate to the damage the ongoing violence has burned into the collective Mexican memory.
Aragón has a BFA from the University of Texas, El Paso and an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin. He is Assistant Professor in Printmaking, College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions, and has received numerous awards, prizes and residencies. His work has been included in several surveys of contemporary printmaking and is held in private and public collections, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; and Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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The Making of William Earle Williams: Party Pictures
2020-08-20 17:30 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom*
Limited to 40 guests
A virtual conversation on the making of William Earle Williams: Party Pictures. Published in February, this monograph contains over 70 stunning black-and-white photographs by Williams, taken in the 1970s and ‘80s at social events in and around Philadelphia – from upper crust Main Line society balls to Henri David’s infamous Halloween parties. In these insightful images of blue-blooded doyennes, society upstarts, A-list celebrities and blue-collar wait staff, Williams reveals the unspoken cues of class, race and gender.
Williams will be joined by contributors John Caperton (The Print Center’s former Curator), Edith Newhall (art writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Artnews) and Elizabeth Spungen (The Print Center’s Executive Director), along with designer Laurie Churchman of Designlore. The discussion will be moderated by Ksenia Nouril (The Print Center’s Jensen Bryan Curator). They will describe the project – from the exhibition that inspired it and early conversations to fully-fledged interviews and days on press. Audience questions and participation are welcomed!
Ticket: $50
Ticket + book: $90 (a $25 savings)
Ticket + special edition book with silver gelatin print: $600 (a $50 savings)

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Webinars for Professional Photographers with Mary Virginia Swanson
2020-10-03 13:00 - 2020-10-04 16:00
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Saturday, October 3
The Long Term Personal Project: From Concept to Audience
1:00pm–5:30pm (ET)
Sunday, October 4
Personal Project Reviews
Session 1: 1:00pm–4:00pm (ET) – SOLD OUT
Session 2: 9:00am–12:00pm (ET) – SOLD OUT
Prerequisite: The Long Term Personal Project: From Concept to Audience

The Long Term Personal Project: From Concept to Audience
Saturday, October 3, 1:00pm–5:30pm* (ET)
Limited to 100 participants – presented on Zoom
When an idea for a project becomes clear and the passion to produce new work takes hold, an artist begins a unique journey unlike any other. Understanding your desired audience and the impact of your project are critical to achieving the expectations and results you desire.
In this webinar, Mary Virginia Swanson will lead participants through the essential steps of thorough research and wise decision-making to create work that is authentic in both its creation and presentation with the strongest possibility of sponsorship, exhibition and publication.
Topics include:
• Developing project concept and defining audience
• Identifying/establishing relationships with sponsors, collaborators and venues
• Researching/testing production materials appropriate to desired audience
• Defining marketing strategies to share work in production with industry professionals
• Sharing project content to print, web and social media platforms
• Relevant examples of project promotional materials from Swanson’s library will be shared
* 45 minutes will be allocated for Q&A
15-minute breaks will be provided at approximately 2:30pm and 4:30pm
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO ATTEND: Photographers who have identified a project topic or have begun production on a project that they hope to share with larger audience.
COST $50 non-members/$25 members
Click here to register. Please note after September 24, refunds are no longer able to be offered. To verify membership and receive a discount code, email Mikaela Hawk at mhawk@printcenter.org
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Personal Project Reviews
Presented on Zoom
Session 1: 1:00pm–4:00pm (ET) Sold Out*
Session 2: 9:00am–12:00pm (ET) Sold Out*

*Email mhawk@printcenter.org to be added to the wait list. If there is enough demand, a third session may be scheduled for a later date.

Prerequisite: The Long Term Personal Project: From Concept to Audience
An opportunity to discuss your current photographic project with Mary Virginia Swanson. Each participant will share work from their project in a 20-minute session with Swanson, joined by either Ksenia Nouril, The Print Center’s Jensen Bryan Curator, or Elizabeth Spungen, The Print Center’s Executive Director, and fellow participants.
Participant’s projects may be in the early or middle stage of production, or nearing completion. Swanson, Nouril and Spungen will be happy to look at work in all stages of production, comment on project statements and grant applications, review a book dummy, comment on your website presence and/or discuss your Instagram strategy as it relates to the project presented. It is your choice as to how to use the time during this small group, online session.
Participants will receive advice to on next steps, likely sponsors, collaborators and best practices to employ throughout the life of the projects to ensure the work reaches its target audience(s).
In advance of the workshop, participants will be asked to submit a Project Statement (approximately 3/4 page), 10 jpegs and a Project Status Checklist (to be provided). These should be sent by September 25 to mhawk@printcenter.org.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO ATTEND: Photographers who attend The Long-Term Personal Project: from Concept to Audience, on Saturday, October 3, 2020.
COST $100 non-members/$75 members
Click here to register. To verify membership and receive a discount code, email Mikaela Hawk at mhawk@printcenter.org
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ABOUT MARY VIRGINIA SWANSON
Mary Virginia Swanson is an author, educator and advisor who helps artists find the strength in their work, identify appreciative audiences and present their work in an informed, professional manner.
Unique among authorities in our field, Swanson’s in-depth knowledge, professional reputation and connections throughout our industry offers a broad range of perspectives on both the making and marketing of photo-based work.
Her public seminars, lectures on marketing opportunities, in-depth workshops and retreats have proven to aid photographers in moving their careers to the next level.
www.mvswanson.com / @maryvirginiaswanson

Curatorial “Walkthrough” with Ksenia Nouril
2020-10-28 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
The Print Center’s Jensen Bryan Curator Ksenia Nouril will lead a “walkthrough” of the virtual exhibition (Un)Making Monuments followed by a Q&A. Nouril will discuss the works in the show, the genesis of the exhibition and will touch upon its larger themes.

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Conversation with Jenny Schmid and Sarah Kirk Hanley
2020-10-29 18:00 - 19:00
Jenny Schmid, Frontispiece, from the portfolio “Pandemic/Pandemonium,” 2020, Linocut, 29″ x 22″

Presented on Zoom
Join The Print Center Gallery Store to launch Jenny Schmid’s new portfolio “Pandemic/Pandemonium,” 2020. Schmid will be joined by Sarah Kirk Hanley in a conversation moderated by Evan Laudenslager, exploring these new prints which address the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on American society. The complete portfolio is six prints, in an edition of 10, housed in a black folio case for $1,600. Individual prints are available in an additional edition of 10 for $300.
Sarah Kirk Hanley is the Executive Director of the Manhattan Graphics Center. She has 20 years of experience in the print world, and her knowledge of Western prints spans the Renaissance to the present day.
Evan Laudenslager is the Sales Manager at The Print Center.

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Panel Discussion with Monument Lab
2020-11-05 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
Introduced by Paul Farber (Director, Monument Lab), and moderated by Alliyah Allen (Assistant Curator, Monument Lab) – this panel will reunite Nona Faustine, Kaitlin Pomerantz and Marisa Williamson, all of whom have worked with Monument Lab. Together, they will reflect on their earlier works, explain how their practice has grown in the intervening years and discuss what kinds of monuments we will need for the future.

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Artist Talk with Anastasia Samoylova
2020-12-15 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
Join us for a virtual artist talk with Anastasia Samoylova! Her photographs address the impacts of rising sea levels on the urban landscape, sounding the alarm on climate change. Samoylova’s most recent body of work FloodZone, will be on view at The Print Center in 2021. It was published as a monograph by Steidl in 2020. Hear the Russian-born, Miami-based artist discuss the process of editing and sequencing the book with Steidl as well as how she is continuing the series.

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Labor Camp: Panel Discussion on Art & Activism
2021-02-10 18:00 - 19:00
Piotr Szyhalski, posters from the series ”Covid-19: Labor Camp Report,” 2020
Presented on Zoom

On March 24, 2020, Piotr Szyhalski made a drawing that would evolve into “Covid-19: Labor Camp Report,” a series of artistic responses to the global pandemic. Today the project, which can be seen in its entirety on Instagram @laborcamp, comprises over 225 digitally-printed posters that have been wheatpasted across the U.S. from Los Angeles to Baltimore and Minneapolis to Philadelphia. Join us to hear Szyhalski speak with Anna Drozdowski and Joseph del Pesco, who organized the wheatpasting efforts in Philadelphia and Baltimore, respectively. They will reflect on the project as well as the role of art and activism in society today.
Anna Drozdowski builds cultural experiences that call upon performance to communicate in moments when words may fail us. She splits her time between Philadelphia and Vermont. She teaches at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia.
Joseph del Pesco is a curator, writer and publisher based in Baltimore, MD. He is International Director of KADIST (Paris & San Francisco).
Piotr Szyhalski is a Polish-born, Minneapolis-based multimedia artist and founder of Labor Camp, an ongoing art project that includes interactive components (digital and physical), original music, performances, videos, printed ephemera, texts and an archive of online resources. He teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN.

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