The Print Center

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…

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…

  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