Field Trip: Pace Paper, Dieu Donné and IPCNY
2018-06-02 10:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Please join us for an outing to New York City where we will have exclusive behind-the-scenes access to studios, artists, demos and curator led exhibition tours!
Saturday, June 2, 2018 | Venues: Pace Paper, Dieu Donne and IPCNY
In conjunction with our exhibition Collaborative Histories: Dieu Donné, we are pleased to offer a trip to New York to visit the new home of Dieu Donné in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as well as the Brooklyn home of Pace Paper – the printshop of Pace Prints and IPCNY in Manhattan for a tour of their highly acclaimed Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, 1960s to Today exhibition with curators Sue Gosin and Mina Takahashi of Dieu Donné.
At Pace Paper we will be met by master printer Ruth Lingen who will be joined by one of the artists currently printing for Pace. Our next stop will be Dieu Donné, where we will enjoy a tour of their wet papermaking studio and talk with Tatiana Ginsberg and visiting artist Ethan Greenbaum about his current project. Our last stop will be at IPCNY’s Manhattan gallery, where we will enjoy a reception and a tour of Paper/Print which focuses on the important role of paper in contemporary printmaking led by curators Sue Gosin and Mina Takahashi.

Cost – $135 per person includes round trip transportation from The Print Center and a box lunch.

Itinerary
The Print Center Leave 10:00am
First Stop 12:30pm
Pace Paper (Brooklyn) – Artist Talk and Demo with Ruth Lingen, Master Printer.
Second Stop 2:15pm
Dieu Donné (Brooklyn Navy Yard) – Tour of the wet studios, demo by Tatiana Ginsberg, Studio Collaborator & Production Manager and Artist Talk with Ethan Greenbaum.
Final Stop 4:30pm
IPCNY (Manhattan) – Reception and Tour of the Exhibition Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, 1960s to Today with Executive Director Judy Hecker and curators Sue Gosin and Mina Takahashi.
Philadelphia Return 8:00pm
Reserve your spot soon, because space is limited! or call Mikaela Hawk at 215.735.6090 x1

Dinner Date with Jan Gordon and Jane Irish
2018-06-08 18:00 - 21:30
Please join us for our Spring Fundraising event Dinner Date honoring collector Jan Gordon and artist Jane Irish.
This special evening will be hosted by Drs. Marsha + Stephen Silberstein in their spectacular Liberty Place home.
Friday, June 8, 2018
The evening begins at The Print Center with a private champagne tour of the solo exhibitions from the 92ND ANNUAL with Executive Director Elizabeth Spungen at 6 pm.
Dinner follows at the art filled home of the Silbersteins, where we will be treated to a view of their exceptional contemporary photography, print, sculpture and glass collections.

Tickets range from $100 – $1,200 with various benefits. For subscription levels and tickets click here.
Guests at the Benefactor level or above will receive signed copies of Eureka, an artist book by Jane Irish and Crispin Sartwell based on Edgar Allan Poe’s essay on the nature of the universe and a new monograph, Jane Irish: Architectures of Resistance, published by Locks Gallery in conjunction with the exhibitions Jane Irish: Antipodes at Philadelphia’s historic Lemon Hill presented by Philadelphia Contemporary and Architectures of Resistance at Locks Gallery.

Jan Gordon is an exceptional art collector with a long connection to The Print Center, developed through her friendship with Sam Maitin, Kneeland McNulty and Berthe von Moschzisker. She has a special interest in Philadelphia artists which she initially explored with gallerist Marian Locks. Gordon enjoys acquiring artworks by artists she knows personally, especially women. She has built a collection featuring Maitin, Elizabeth Osborne and Edna Andrade; and more recently, has become a dedicated collector of Jane Irish’s remarkable works.
Jane Irish is an outstanding Philadelphia artist. She has been in important exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art and ICA, Philadelphia; the Walker Art Center; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has received prestigious recognitions from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as residencies all over the world. Irish is represented by Locks Gallery.
Drs. Marsha + Stephen Silberstein have created a home filled with an impressive collection of art, with an especially strong selection of classic and contemporary photographs. They have works of art from all over the world, as well as an exceptional group of pieces by Philadelphia artists. From Brassai to Sally Mann and Vic Muniz to Isaiah Zagar – this is a visit not to be missed!
Former Honorees
Jesse Burke
Sarah McEneaney
Matt Neff
Lydia Panas
Serena Perrone
Bill Scott
Emma Wilcox
William Earle Williams
Dinner Date Committee
Julie Jensen Bryan + Robert Bryan*
Joan Wadleigh Curran*
Avi Eden*
Barry Eiswerth
Ofelia Garcia*
Eileen Kennedy + Robert Heim*
Sueyun Locks
Karen Mauch + Diane Zilka
Donald W. McPhail*
Robert Morrison*
Harry Philbrick
Barbara Schaff*
Michael Shannon*
Anna + Menno Tas*
Zabeth Teelucksingh
Gina + Dave Walton
John Wind*
* Former Host
View the full invitation here.
Image from Eureka, 2016 by Jane Irish

BYO Social with Qiaoyi Shi
2018-07-26 18:00 - 19:30
STOP IN FOR OUR BYO SOCIAL
WITH QIAOYI SHI
Thursday, July 26, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
FREE
Join us for a fun and casual BYOB evening at The Print Center with printmaker Qiaoyi Shi!

BYO Socials bring artists and art appreciators together for casual conversation and the chance to see new artwork.

Come talk with artist Qiaoyi Shi and get a first look at her recent risograph and lithograph prints and books, as well as a selection of amazing tote bags, cards, t-shirts and more. Chat with Qiaoyi about her process and projects – and pick up one of her whimsical, colorful pieces!

About the artist: https://printcenterstore.myshopify.com/collectio…/qiaoyi-shi

Image: Qiaoyi Shi, Green Melon, 2018

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Book Launch with Jacob Koestler
2018-08-04 15:00 - 18:00
The Print Center is very pleased to host the launch of
Jacob Koestler‘s photobook titled Everybody Wants Somewhere.
Please join us for the book signing.
Koestler’s work was selected from the 92nd ANNUAL Competition to receive a solo exhibition at The Print Center. Jacob Koestler: Copy of a Copy is currently on view through August 4, 2018.

Everybody Wants Somewhere
Jacob Koestler
Design by Elana Schlenker
96 pages
73 black & white photographs
Soft cover | perfect bound | 9” x 7”
First edition of 250
© 2018 Jacob Koestler
Photographs by Jacob Koestler
Essay by Gary Sampson
Produced with support from:
Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation
CatLABS of JP
The book will be available for purchase for $30.

“The stark character of modernist ideology persists in the built environment all around us. From its onset early in the 20th century, the singular urge to strip away ornament, seen as a marker of exploitation, signified the architect’s desire to meet the needs of workers and to seek meaning in the new materials of construction, with the promise of social liberation from the tyranny of class, including the vagaries of fashion. The photographs of Jacob Koestler would cast doubt on the success of these ideals in light of contemporary realities. As one contemplates Everybody Wants Somewhere, a kind of salvage operation occurs regarding the remnants of places of labor, the impenetrable windows of sequestered lives, the construction and massing of skyscrapers, the dismal evidence of economic disparity without so much as a figure. One may want to avoid any serious investigation of these typically shunned, unappealing elements, but this reclamation through the photographer’s intelligent, perceptual and bodily reconnoitering and chance selectivity in seeing, however, may defeat the immediate response to look away.”
From Gary Sampson
Everybody Wants Somewhere, 2018

“In Copy of a Copy [currently on view at The Print Center], Koestler distinguishes between making and looking at photographs, actions which have become almost simultaneous but once were separated by developing … Several images come from the series Everybody Wants Somewhere. The most absorbing are twins, “West Coast View (Overexposed)” and “West Coast View (Underexposed).” Seen across a gallery, the former seems an empty canvas while its sibling appears a black hole. Details emerge on approach, but it never feels like everything is visible. This is Koestler’s point: from a distance, things tend to look black or white. To understand, you have to get closer.”
From Pamela J. Forsythe
Perception vs. Memory, Broad Street Review, 2018

BOOK SIGNING: Tom Griggs and Paul Kwiatkowski, Ghost Guessed
2018-09-27 06:00 - 19:30
JOIN US FOR A BOOK SIGNING
Tom Griggs and Paul Kwiatkowski
Ghost Guessed
Thursday, September 27, 6:00pm
Please join us in celebration of the recently released book Ghost Guessed with the photographers and authors Tom Griggs and Paul Kwiatkowski..

On November 13, 2009, Andrew Lindberg, a young pilot, departed from the Twin Cities to meet his father for a hunting trip in northern Minnesota. He never arrived; a few days later, Lindberg’s plane was located deep within the wilderness of the White Earth Indian Reservation.
In Ghost Guessed Tom Griggs and Paul Kwiatkowski examine how absences caused by death make memories, no matter how abstract, more salient and complex. A combination of intimate prose and photographs brings into focus our human connections as filtered through technology and visual media. From Lindberg’s accident to the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Ghost Guessed reflects on how we process loss as it plays out in the ongoing digitalization of our lives.

“Ghost Guessed is a beautiful, complex construction of images and words, sound and texture, facts informed by memory, loss and, ultimately, love.”
-Andrea Modica, photographer
Tom Griggs is a photographer, writer and professor at La Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. He is Founding Editor of the photography site Fototazo. His first book Herida y fuente was published by Mesæstándarin, 2017.
Paul Kwiatkowski, a photographer and writer, is based in New York. His first book And Every Day Was Overcast was released by Black Balloon, 2013.
Ghost Guessed, Tom Griggs and Paul Kwiatkowski, Published by Mesæstándar, hardcover, 156 pages, text in English and Spanish, $30, available for purchase at The Print Center.
Release

Conversation + Book Launch: Rochelle Toner, Collage Drawings 1873 - 2018
2018-10-10 18:00 - 19:30
CONVERSATION AND BOOK LAUNCH

Wednesday, October 10, 6:00 – 7:30pm

Join us for a conversation with artist Rochelle Toner and exhibition curator John Caperton exploring the outstanding body of work Toner has created between the 70s and today.

We are delighted to launch a new publication from Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, Rochelle Toner, Collage Drawings 1873 – 2018 by Robert Blackson. The 32-page, full-color book in an edition of 300, features 12 of Toner’s most recent collage drawings reproduced at their actual size of 12″ x 9 ½”. These works are composed directly on top of lithographs drawn from the pages of an 1873 geological survey of the Western Territories of the U.S. These prints of fossils, bones and other natural specimens were given to Toner by artist Robert Flynt.

Temple Contemporary is pleased to continue this cycle of giving by offering Rochelle Toner, Collage Drawings 1873 – 2018 to visitors of The Print Center’s exhibition free of charge.

Image courtesy of Rochelle Toner, Plate XXXII, 2018

Artist Talk, Film Screening + Book Signing with Henry Horenstein
2018-10-22 18:00 - 20:00
Artist Talk, Film Screening + Book Signing
With Henry Horenstein
Monday, October 22, 2018, 6:00pm

The University of the Arts, Caplan Auditorium
Terra Hall, 16th & 17th floors
211 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA

We are pleased to present PARTNERS, directed by Henry Horenstein, in conjunction with the University of the Arts Photography Program. PARTNERS is a fascinating documentary incorporating clips from interviews with couples who discuss how they met and how their relationships work. Some are fairly conventional while others are wildly unorthodox. PARTNERS is about acceptance and a celebration of choice.
Before the screening, Horenstein will talk about his work and career, and after, there will be a chance to purchase signed copies of his many exceptional books.
Free and open to the public, seating is limited

Open Door at the Arthur Ross Gallery & the Penn Museum
2018-10-30 14:30 - 17:00
Open Door offers unique behind-the-scenes tours at Philadelphia’s most intriguing cultural sites.
Join us for two special tours at the University of Pennsylvania. We will start at the Arthur Ross Gallery to see William Kentridge: Universal Archive, a series of 79 linocuts printed onto pages from dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Following, we will tour the new Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum. The collection features objects from 10,000 years of human history and are the first in a series of transformative gallery renovations taking place at the Penn Museum over the next several years.
This is a free event, however, space is limited and RSVP is required. RSVP to Mikaela Hawk at mhawk@printcenter.org.
William Kentridge, Universal Archive (Six Birds), 2012, linocut printed on page from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Courtesy David Krut Projects, Johannesburg/New York
Middle East Galleries, Courtesy of the Penn Museum

Artist Lecture & BYO Social
2018-11-07 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Lauren Pakradooni & Second State Press

In conjunction with the exhibition Lauren Pakradooni: Static Slip, we welcome Pakradooni to discuss her work and process. Immediately following her talk, we will be enjoy casual conversation with members of Philadelphia’s community print shop Second State Press.
Pakradooni is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia. She earned a BA from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA in 2007 and an MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence in 2011. Pakradooni is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA. Her artwork has been exhibited in a variety of U.S. venues including Leisure, Denver; Planthouse Gallery, New York; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; and in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Antwerp, Belgium; and Doha, Qatar. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the University of Texas, Austin; AS220, Providence, RI; Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; and internationally at Beisinghoff Printmaking Residency, Diemelstadt-Rhoden, Germany and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Doha. She records and performs experimental electronic music, layering and manipulating handmade cassette tape loops into compositions, under the moniker Tether.
Second State Press’ mission is to foster the development of ideas and innovation in printmaking by providing artists with a professional, affordable and supportive workspace. Join us, founders Jenn McTague and Zach Lindenberger and Board member Lauren Pakradooni for a drink, to learn more about Second State and to see some of the excellent work produced there.
BYO Socials bring artists and art appreciators together for casual conversation and the chance to see new artwork.

93rd ANNUAL Solo Exhibitions, Talks and Reception
2019-01-17 17:30 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Rafael Soldi: CARGAMONTÓN
Jason Urban & Leslie Mutchler: Long Lost Friend
Chinn Wang: Soaking Up Local Color
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Gallery Talk with the Artists: 5:30pm
Opening Reception: 6:00 – 7:30pm
New work by Rafael Soldi (Seattle, WA), Jason Urban & Leslie Mutchler (Brooklyn, NY) and Chinn Wang (Boulder, CO) who were selected by jurors Jose Diaz, Chief Curator, Andy Warhol Museum and Lisa Sutcliffe, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum. While each exhibition has its own focus, all three explore the mediation of the printed image through process and context.
Exhibition page
The Print Center Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Artist Lecture with Rafael Soldi
2019-01-23 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
93rd ANNUAL RELATED PROGRAM
Artist Lecture with Rafael Soldi
Wednesday, January 23, 6:00pm
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear Soldi talk about his practice and career when he joins us from Seattle!
Presented in partnership with The University of the Arts Photography Program.
Exhibition page
Image: Rafael Soldi, Imagined Futures (detail), 2018
The Print Center Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

BOOK LAUNCH: Gregory Eddi Jones, Flowers for donald and Countries Glorious
2019-01-30 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
JOIN US FOR A BOOK LAUNCH + ARTIST TALK
Gregory Eddi Jones
Flowers for donald and Countries Glorious
Wednesday, January 30, 6:00pm
Join Philadelphia author and photographer Gregory Eddi Jones to celebrate the release of his new artist book Flowers for donald and Countries Glorious in an edition of 150, printed by Conveyor Studios, NJ, 2018, 70 pages, 32 plates.
Jones will give an artist talk and read form the poem “Countries Glorious”. Flowers for donald and Countries Glorious, $35 will be available for purchase and signing following the talk.
Gregory Eddi Jones (b. 1986, Syracuse) is an American artist, writer and publisher who lives and works in Philadelphia. He earned a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2010 and an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, in 2016. He is the founding editor of In the In-Between: Journal of New and New Media Photography, an independent publishing platform that highlights and supports noteworthy, forward-thinking 21st century photographic authors and authorship.
“Perhaps Flowers for donald beckons us to look a little closer. What is the role of art when the world around us is absolutely turbulent? What is reflected back at us when we make art under conditions of unignorable political circumstances? Flowers for donald utilizes a classic art motif to start to unpack these questions.”
– Digital America
The Print Center Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Chinn Wang in Conversation with Katie Garth: Women, Labor and the Arts
2019-02-06 18:00 - 19:30
93rd ANNUAL Related Program
Chinn Wang in Conversation with Katie Garth: Women, Labor and the Arts
Wednesday, February 6, 6:00pm at The Print Center

Join us for a conversation between Chinn Wang and Katie Garth, MFA candidate in Printmaking at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. The pair, who met years ago when Garth was an undergraduate student in Wang’s screenprinting class, will discuss the role mentorship in arts education has for women; perspectives on labor in contemporary studio practice; and notions of artistic identity.
Presented with the support of Tyler School of Arts Printmaking Program.

Chinn Wang Artist Lecture
Thursday, February 7, 6:00pm at Tyler School of Art, Room B004
Chinn Wang talks about Soaking Up Local Color, and her creation of a visual narrative to piece together a cohesive family history.
Supported by the Dean’s Interdisciplinary GAF Fund, the Foundations Department and the Printmaking Program.

Image: Chinn Wang, The Hermit & The Magician, 2018
Exhibition page
The Print Center Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

Open House
2019-02-27 17:30 - 19:30
Open House: Meet Ksenia Nouril, Our New Jensen Bryan Curator
Wednesday, February 27, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Join us to give a warm welcome to our new Jensen Bryan Curator Ksenia Nouril, and for a casual conversation between Ksenia Nouril and Patricia C. Phillips, Chief Academic Officer/Academic Dean at Moore College of Art & Design. The pair will talk about their past projects and the cultural landscape in Philadelphia as well as ideas for future programs and developing new audiences.
Conversation at 6:00pm, followed by refreshments

Ksenia Nouril received her PhD in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick in 2018. Her dissertation examined the role of history in contemporary art through the work of Olga Chernysheva, Deimantas Narkevičius, Paulina Ołowska and Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. She graduated summa cum laude from New York University with a BA in Art History and Russian & Slavic Studies. Nouril has organized collection and loan exhibitions for institutions including the Bruce Museum, Greenwich; Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick; Lower East Side Printshop, NY; and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY.

Before joining the staff at The Print Center, Nouril was part of a team at MoMA dedicated to researching, cataloging and interpreting modernist photographic history through the Thomas Walther Collection. She co-organized the 2015 exhibition Production-Reproduction: The Circulation of Photographic Modernism, 1900-1950. From 2015 to 2017, Nouril was a Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) Fellow at MoMA. She is a co-editor of and contributor to Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology, 2018 (MoMA/Duke University Press) and has published in exhibition catalogs and magazines, including ARTMargins Online, The Calvert Journal and OSMOS.

Patricia C. Phillips is a writer and curator who focuses on public art, civic space, landscape, the environment – and the intersection of these areas. She is author of Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art, 2016 (Prestel, New York); Ursula von Rydingsvard: Working, 2011 (Prestel); It is Difficult, a survey of the work of Alfredo Jaar, 1988 (Actar Press, Barcelona); and editor of City Speculations, 1996 (Princeton Architectural Press, New York). From 2002 to 2007, she was Editor-in-Chief of Art Journal. Recent work includes the lead essay for habitus: ann hamilton, 2017 (Delmonico Books-Prestel, New York with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia); and editor of Public Art: Critical and Primary Sources: 1960-2017, 2020 (Bloomsbury Publishing, London).

Phillips was co-curator, with Larissa Harris of the Queens Museum, of Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art, Queens Museum, Corona, NY, 2016-17. Curatorial projects include Making Sense: Five Installations on Sensation, Katonah Museum of Art, NY, 1996; City Speculations, Queens Museum, 1995-96; The POP Project, Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston and MoMA PS1, New York, 1988; and Disney Animators and Animation, Whitney Museum of Art, NY, 1981. She has held academic positions at Parsons School of Design/New School for Social Research; State University of New York at New Paltz; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

The Print Center Exhibitions, Programs and Events are free and open to the public.

Ksenia Nouril, Photo: Matt Rencher

Free

2019 ART ON PAPER
2019-03-07 18:00 - 2019-03-10 18:00
ART ON PAPER – 299 South Street – Pier 36, Downtown Manhattan

The Print Center is thrilled to participate in the 2019 Art on Paper fair in New York City!
We will present a selection of important works at one of the world’s most vibrant international art fairs. Join us in New York for this outstanding event.

Thank you for visiting our booth at Art on Paper.
To see the works that we brought to the fair, click the following link.
VIEW ALL WORKS HERE
Tickets are no longer available.
VIP Preview: Thursday, March 7, 6:00 to 10:00pm
Fair Hours:
Friday, March 8, 11:00am to 7:00pm
Saturday, March 9, 11:00am to 7:00pm
Sunday, March 10, 12:00 to 6:00pm
Website
Tickets are no longer available. Click here to purchase tickets to the VIP Preview and/or to the Fair | We have a limited number of complimentary VIP passes. Visit The Print Center or call Mikaela Hawk (in office Friday and Saturday until 6pm) at 215.735.6090 x1 to reserve.

Images:
Paula Riff, Ginkgo’s Folly, 2018, Cyanotype and gum bichromate, 13” x 19”, Unique,
Art Spiegelman, Lead Pipe Sunday, 1989, Two sided Lithograph , 22″ x 30″, Edition of 100, Published by The Print Center
Vera Lutter, 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, I: April 13, 2006, 2006, Unique gelatin silver print, 32 9/16″ x 38 7/8″, Commissioned by The Print Center
Robert Cumming, Burning Box, 1989, Traditional Japanese woodcut, Published by The Print Center

VIEW ALL WORKS HERE

Atlas Obscura Cyanotype Workshop at The Print Center
2019-03-23 10:00 - 13:00
Atlas Obscura’s a World of Blue: Cyanotypes and Early Photography
Saturday, March 23, 2019 at The Print Center

Image: Irina Glik, Philadelphia Zoo Air Balloon, 2017, Cyanotype

Artist Talk with Jason Urban & Leslie Mutchler: Anti-Disciplinary Print
2019-03-27 18:00 - 19:30
93rd ANNUAL Related Program
The collaborative team of Jason Urban and Leslie Mutchler (JULM Studios) will discuss their research-intensive projects which examine the printed form in an expanded field.

Image: Jason Urban & Leslie Mutchler, Long Lost Friend (detail), 2018
Exhibition page
The Print Center Exhibitions and Programs are free and open to the public.

James Siena: Guided Gallery Talk + Opening Reception
2019-04-18 17:30 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
James Siena will lead a walkthrough of the exhibition James Siena: Resonance Under Pressure at 5:30pm
Opening Reception 6:00 – 7:30pm

Image: James Siena, Parentheses, Tesselating, 2018, lithograph, edition of 20. Courtesy of the Artist and The University of the Arts, MFA Book Arts + Printmaking Program
Exhibition page

Create Your Own Typewriter Print
2019-04-19 11:00 - 2019-07-27 18:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Ongoing during the exhibition

The Print Center will host a “Public Typewriter” as part of Philly Typewriter’s “Philadelphia Public Typewriter Program”. Philly Typewriter is a retail store located in Philadelphia that also repairs typewriters and hosts classes and events. A temporary loan of a manual typewriter prepared for use by restoration classes at Philly Typewriter will allow visitors to the exhibition New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print to make their own typewriter prints.

Hours: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM ♦ Tuesday – Saturday (unless otherwise noted on our website)
Exhibition page

The Printer’s Perspective: Gail Deery and Alex Kirillov on James Siena
2019-04-24 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Gail Deery, Professor of Printmaking, Papermaking and Book Arts and Co-Director of Dolphin Press & Print at MICA, and Alex Kirillov, Senior Lecturer, MFA Book Arts + Printmaking and Studio Art at The University of the Arts, both worked with Siena when he printed at their respective institutions. Deery and Kirillov will give a tour of the exhibition James Siena: Resonance Under Pressure from the printer’s perspective, walking through the various processes used by Siena and their students during his artist-residencies in 2018.

Left: James Siena, Parentheses, Tesselating, 2018, lithograph, edition of 20. Courtesy of the Artist and The University of the Arts, MFA Book Arts + Printmaking Program
Right: James Siena, Seven Radiating Lobes, Wandering, 2018, etching and relief, 15” x 11 ¾”, edition of 20. Courtesy of the Artist and The University of the Arts, MFA Book Arts + Printmaking Program
Exhibition page

Curator’s Talk
2019-05-02 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Ksenia Nouril, Jensen Bryan Curator, will give a talk on the history of typewriter prints, highlighting key moments and artists that were influential to her thinking around the exhibition New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print.

Image: Lenka Clayton, Early Annie Albers 07/04/2017 from the series “Typewriter Drawings”, 2017, typewriter paper and ink, rendered with a portable 1957 Smith-Corona Skyriter typewriter, 11” x 8 ½”. Courtesy of the Artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Exhibition page

BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL DISCUSSION | Marie Tomanova: Young American
2019-05-21 06:00 - 19:30
BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL DISCUSSION
Marie Tomanova: Young American

Tuesday, May 21. 2019
6:00pm Panel Discussion
6:45pm Book Signing

The Print Center is pleased to host the Philadelphia launch for an exciting new book, Marie Tomanova: Young American, which has already received international attention. Tomanova will be joined in conversation by the book’s author Thomas Beachdel and Ksenia Nouril, our Jensen Bryan Curator. They will discuss the impetus for and execution of the project, as well as reflect on its meaning in our current political climate.

“Marie Tomanova’s debut monograph Young American celebrates an idea of an ‘America’ still rife with dreams and possibilities, hope and freedom. As a Czech immigrant struggling in a new environment to belong, to come to terms with her repressive past and her uncertain future, the portraits taken between 2015 and 2018 in New York City visualize an America in which individuality is valued as uniqueness and not judged as a lack of sameness.”
– Thomas Beachdel, Art Historian, City University of New York, Hostos

Marie Tomanova (b. 1984, Czechoslovakia) received a BFA from Masaryk University, 2007 and an MFA from University of Technology, Czech Republic, 2010. She immigrated to the U.S. in 2011. Her work addresses displacement, identity, inclusivity, gender and sexuality through photography and video. She has exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, Czech Center New York, Museum of Sex, Untitled Space, all New York; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA; Ars Gallery, Prague; and Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi, Georgia. Her work has been featured in publications, including Artforum, Calvert Journal, Dazed, Der Spiegel, Forbes, i-D, Interview, Paper, Purple, Sleek, VICE and W Magazine.

Marie Tomanova: Young American, 2019, introduction by Ryan McGinley with an essay by Thomas Beachdel. The 10 ½” x 9″, 144 page, softcover volume is published in an edition of 350 by Paradigm. The book will be available for purchase for $40.

Free and open to the public

Dinner Date with James Siena
2019-06-12 18:00 - 21:00
Join us to celebrate the extraordinary artist James Siena for a spectacular evening at the architecturally marvelous residence of Ligia Ravé Slovic! Each spring, we honor an artist or a significant member of the art community at our Dinner Date event. Dinner Date is The Print Center’s spring fundraiser.

Wednesday, June 12, 2019
6pm
Champagne tour of Resonance Under Pressure with James Siena.
7pm
Elegant dinner at the architecturally marvelous Center City home of Ligia Ravé Slovic, designed by the architect and artist David Slovic and filled with a spectacular collection of contemporary art.

Guests at the Benefactor and Visionary Levels will receive a print created especially for our patrons by James Siena, published by Harlan & Weaver, New York.
James Siena, Coffered Rectangle, 1995-2019, Engraving, Image 5 ¾” x 3 ⅞” on sheet 13 ⅛” x 10 ⅞”, Edition of 25, Printed and Published by Harlan & Weaver, NY

Tickets from $100 – $1,800. For subscription levels and tickets click here.

Former Honorees
Jesse Burke
Dr. Jan Gordon
Jane Irish
Sarah McEneaney
Matt Neff
Lydia Panas
Serena Perrone
Bill Scott
Emma Wilcox
William Earle Williams
Dinner Date Committee
Julie Jensen Bryan + Robert Bryan*
Diane Burko + Richard Ryan
Ralph Citino + Lawrence Taylor
Joan Wadleigh Curran*
Gail Deery
Avi Eden*
Ofelia Garcia*
Eileen Kennedy + Robert Heim*
Brett Littman
Francesco Longenecker
Donald W. McPhail*
Robert Morrison (deceased)*
Barbara Schaff*
Michael Shannon*
Drs. Marsha + Stephen Silberstein*
Anna + Menno Tas*
Carol Weaver + Felix Harlan
John Wind*
* Former Host
James Siena (b. 1957, Oceanside, CA) is a New York-based artist who is well-known for his labyrinthine and often colorful prints, paintings, drawings and sculptures. He holds a BFA from Cornell University, Ithaca. Siena has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; Dieu Donné, The Museum of Modern Art and Pace Gallery, all New York; and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle. His work has been in group exhibitions at venues, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Milwaukee Art Museum; American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Drawing Center and The Morgan Library and Museum, all New York; Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; and Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington as well as in Beijing, Dublin and Montréal. His work is in prestigious collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, all New York; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Siena teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is a member of the Corporation of Yaddo as well as the National Academy of Design. He is represented by Pace Gallery, New York.
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Queering the Archives: Saving and Sharing LGBTQ+ Histories
2019-06-26 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
In honor of Stonewall at 50, The Print Center convenes a forum with artists and archivists committed to the preservation and presentation of LGBTQ+ histories. Panelists will share recent work, reflect on the legacies of Stonewall and address pressing issues regarding archives and the queer experience.

Participants Include:
John Anderies, Director of the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at the William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia, one of the country’s largest LGBT archives. He has also worked as an archivist at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania, and as Head of Special Collections at Haverford College.
Amy Cousins holds a BFA in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues including Visual Arts Center at Boise State University; IS Projects, Fort Lauderdale; Moore College of Art and Vox Populi, both Philadelphia; Peephole Cinema, San Francisco; and Washington Printmaker’s Gallery, Silver Springs. In 2016, Cousins won the Curator’s Choice Award for Beyond the Norm: An International Juried Print Exhibition, which was organized by Normal Editions Workshop to celebrate their 40th anniversary and hosted by University Galleries at Illinois State, where she exhibited a solo show in 2017.
Michael J. Carroll works on digital projects in the Metadata and Digitization Services department of Temple University Libraries. He is a master’s candidate at the Tyler School of Art in modern and contemporary art history. His research is focused on queer artworks that utilize archival records.
Gabriel Martinez has taught at the University of Pennsylvania for 19 years. His work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and Philadelphia Museum of Art, and at Exit Art, White Columns and Franklin Furnace, NY. Martinez received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2001 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2003. His exhibition Bayside Revisited was the centerpiece of The Print Center’s Centennial celebration. He currently has two exhibitions on view at William Way LGBT Community Center: Tonight is Forever, through June 28 and Archives: LGBTQ Legacies: Art, Archives, Analysis, through August 30, 2019.
Martinez is a Cuban-American native of Miami, Florida, who works largely with photography, performance and installation. He attended the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, received a BFA from the University of Florida and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Martinez has participated in residencies and artist-in-residence programs including: The Rosenbach Museum and Library, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, both in Philadelphia; Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida; Arcadia Summer Arts Program, Maine; MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire; and Yaddo, New York. Martinez’s work is represented by Samson Projects, Boston.

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“Archiving Tomorrow’s History,” The Philadelphia Gay News, Gary L. Day, July 3, 2019 pdf

Image: Gabriel Martinez, Tonight is Forever, 2019, Installation view, William Way LGBT Community Center. Photo: Eric Sucar, University of Pennsylvania

Celebrating Robert J. Morrison
2019-06-30 14:00 - 16:00 | 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
