Curator Position Established
Jacqueline van Rhyn was appointed as the organization’s first curator, with the support of The William Penn Foundation.
Jacqueline van Rhyn was appointed as the organization’s first curator, with the support of The William Penn Foundation.
Sarah McEneaney, West Texas Night, 2009, Screenprint, 13 x 10 inches, Edition of 30
In 1929 we published A History of The Philadelphia Print Club. The book is authored by Dorothy Grafly, who had a long career as an art journalist, including as a columnist for The Philadephia Inquirer. Engraved and printed by The Beck Engraving Co., the charming book chronicles the organization’s early years.
25 x 25 was a series of printed portfolios published by The Print Center between 1989 and 1998. Any artist could submit a printed edition of 50 prints (each 25 x 25 centimeters) which were then collated by the participating artists. In the end, over three hundred locally and nationally known artists contributed to this…
In 2002, The Print Center organized IMPRINT: a public art project, for which a series of temporary public art projects were commissioned from Dotty Attie, John Coplans, Susan Fenton, Kerry James Marshall, Virgil Marti and James Mills. The project included 46 billboard and bus shelter posters, six collectible inserts in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday magazine,…
Appointed in 2006, Elizabeth (Liz) Spungen’s tenure at The Print Center has been marked by programmatic and administrative accomplishments. She has developed numerous major individual and institutional gifts, among them the largest gift ever received by The Print Center naming the Jensen Bryan Curatorial Chair, as well as awards from The Andy Warhol Foundation for…
In 1945 The Print Center sent out a letter announcing a new initiative: The Artist’s Workshop. “This is not to be class or school,” the letter reads, “but to be for artists who are interested in technical research in graphic materials.” Over the next seven years, the British artist Stanley William Hayter (1901 – 1988)…