The Print Center

94th ANNUAL Solo Exhibitions | Gallery Talks + Opening Reception
2020-01-16 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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
Press Images
PRESS
‘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
© Susan kae Grant
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
Full Details PDF

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
Full Details PDF

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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Artist Talk with Kevin Claiborne
2021-02-17 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
Join us for an artist talk with Kevin Claiborne, solo exhibition award winner from the 95th ANNUAL International Competition. This program is presented in conjunction with Claiborne’s current exhibition: Before I Died I Was Invisible.
Kevin Claiborne (born Camp Springs, MD; lives New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose practice crisscrosses photography and printmaking. His work examines and questions intersections of identity, environment and mental health within the Black American experience. He holds a BS in mathematics from the historically Black college, North Carolina Central University, Durham and an MS in higher education administration from Syracuse University, NY. He is an MFA candidate in Visual Arts at Columbia University, New York. He has had solo exhibitions at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York; Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology and the University of California Santa Barbara Multicultural Center Gallery. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at venues including the University of California, Los Angeles; At Peace Gallery and Photoville, both New York; and Arts Fund, Santa Barbara. Claiborne’s work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Kevin Claiborne: Before I Died I Was Invisible is on view through April 30, 2021.
View the exhibition here.

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Artist Talk with David Rothenberg (Rescheduled)
2021-03-24 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
Join us for this rescheduled artist talk with David Rothenberg, solo exhibition award winner from the 95th ANNUAL International Competition. This program is presented in conjunction with Rothenberg’s current exhibition: Landing Lights Park. The date change is due to unforeseen circumstances and we apologize for any inconvenience.
David Rothenberg (born Mission Viejo, CA; lives Queens, NY) is a photographer and educator. Rothenberg received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York and an MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Rothenberg has produced two books of his work with the publisher Roman Nvmerals, including Landing Lights Park, which TIME named one of the best photography books of 2018. His photographs have been published and written about in Hyperallergic, Libération and The New York Times, as well as featured on The New Yorker’s Instagram account. Rothenberg received the PHOTO 2021 x Perimeter International Photobook Prize for his forthcoming book Roosevelt Station. His work has been exhibited at and is in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, as well as being in the permanent collection of numerous library special collections including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2019, Rothenberg was awarded the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant for photography.
David Rothenberg: Landing Lights Park is on view through April 30, 2021.
View the exhibition here.

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Artist Talk with Dawn Kim
2021-04-21 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
The title of Dawn Kim’s artist talk, “If it ain’t the windmill, it’s the cows,” comes from an old farming idiom. It refers to the constancy of roving problems that arise in labor and living. This lecture will cover Kim’s failures as an artist, one after the other, some of which involved her cows, her windmill, and her work. This event is presented in conjunction with our current exhibition: Half Rest and Windows on Latimer installation Fourteen Freedoms.

Dawn Kim (born Seoul, South Korea; lives Austin, TX) examines invisible systems of power through text and image. She received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and an MFA in Photography from Yale University, New Haven, CT. Kim has exhibited at numerous venues, including Luke Glanton Gallery, Amsterdam, NY; Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta; ACRE, Chicago, IL; Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT; Blackbox Gallery and Hap Gallery, both Portland, OR; and Washer Dryer Projects, Salt Lake City, UT; as well as at Para Site, Hong Kong. Her work can be found in the libraries of the International Center of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art and New York Public Library, all New York; as well as the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, National Library of Scotland, Edinburg, The British Library, London and Bodleian Library, Oxford, all UK. Kim is the 2020-21 St. Elmo Arts Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she has had residences at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson and Ace Hotel, New York; as well as a Macdowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH, among others.
Dawn Kim: Half Rest and Fourteen Freedoms are on view through April 30, 2021.

This program is free and open to the public. To register: email mhawk@printcenter.org. (This event will not be available for later viewing.)

Curatorial Tour of Fit to Print
2021-05-05 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom

Lisa Blas, First(s), Monday’s image, v. 2, 2021, courtesy of the Artist

The Print Center’s Jensen Bryan Curator Ksenia Nouril, along with exhibition advisor and exhibiting artist Lisa Blas, will lead a virtual tour of the exhibition Fit to Print followed by a Q&A. They will discuss the works in the show, the genesis of the exhibition and touch upon its larger themes.
Fit to Print is on view May 1 – June 30, 2021

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Conversation: Wood+Paper+Box
2021-05-13 18:00 - 19:00
Wood+Paper+Box, 2014, portfolio box containing 19 printed objects
Presented on Zoom
Join us for a conversation moderated by Evan Laudenslager, our Sales & Program Manager, with the artist collective Wood+Paper+Box. Comprised of Print Center Gallery Store artists Katie Baldwin and Yoonmi Nam along with the printmaker and illustrator Mariko Jesse, the collective creates collaborative portfolio boxes that push the boundaries of traditional print. Baldwin will join us from Taipei, where she currently is a Fulbright Scholar, Nam will participate from Lawrence, KS, where she is Visual Arts Professor at the University of Kansas, and Jesse will join us from Tokyo, where she lives when she is not in California.

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Panel Discussion: Newspapers in Art
2021-06-16 13:00 - 14:00
Presented on Zoom
Beatriz González, Lesa majestad [High Treason], 1974. Courtesy of the Artist, Casas Riegner and Banco de Archivos Digitales de Artes en Colombia, both Bogotá

Join moderator Lisa Blas for a conversation with Alice Centamore, the Paris-based art historian and writer who will present on Simone Forti’s “Newspaper Animations,” and Silvia Benedetti, the New York-based curator and writer who will present on the relationship between the media and artwork of Beatriz González.

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Opening Reception: Fall Exhibitions
2021-09-23 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Please join us for the Opening Reception for The Print Center’s fall exhibitions: Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone and Back and Forth: The Space in Between.

Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone – Photographs by the Moscow-born, Miami-based artist, responding to rising sea levels caused by global climate change
Back and Forth: The Space in Between – A solo exhibition of work by Ivanco Talevski, mapping the artist’s bifurcated existence between Philadelphia, PA and Bitola, Macedonia. The immersive installation of new prints, drawings, projections and sounds works investigates notions of memory, history and belonging, as well as the multiplicity of identities a single individual can embody.

In lieu of The Print Center’s usual gallery talk preceding the opening reception, a recorded gallery tour will be available at printcenter.org beginning September 22. This adjusted event format, as well as extra outdoor space during the reception, are temporary safety measures.
All visitors are required to be vaccinated and wear facemasks while indoors.

Artist Talk and Book Launch with Ivanco Talevski
2021-10-28 18:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Ivanco Talevski will present a lecture on his work, his current exhibition Back and Forth: The Space in Between at The Print Center and the his new book published in conjunction with the show, Book of Drawings.
Onsite the event will be limited to 20 in-person guests. Reservations are required and will be accepted on a first come, first-served basis. Visitors are required to be vaccinated and wear facemasks.
The event will also be streamed live on Zoom.

Preorder Book of Drawings here

All of The Print Center’s exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.

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Panel Discussion: Art, the Environment and Environmental Justice
2021-11-10 18:00 - 19:00
Giovanna Di Chiro, David Hartt and Alexis Schulman
Presented on Zoom
Join The Print Center for a conversation with David Hartt (Associate Professor of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania), Alexis Schulman (Assistant Research Professor of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University) and Giovanna Di Chiro (Professor of Environmental Studies, Swarthmore College) reflecting on themes and issues addressed in FloodZone, moderated by Ksenia Nouril.
Register here

All of The Print Center’s exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.

Benefit Kickoff Party
2021-11-19 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
Please join The Print Center as we kickoff our Annual Benefit! This lively event will include Honorary Guest Curator Catherine Edelman, our Board of Governors, spotlights on artworks up for bid from Executive Director Liz Spungen, Jensen Bryan Curator Ksenia Nouril, our spectacular Benefit Committee and donating artists!
Presented on Zoom.

More about the Benefit
Ticket required

Emerging Collectors Preview
2021-12-01 17:00 - 18:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Enjoy an evening in our galleries* previewing the artwork up for bid and hearing from donating artists and other collectors! Learn more about the Benefit
Free to attend, RSVP required – space is limited. Register at benefit@printcenter.org by November 29.

*Vaccination and facemasks are required for all visitors

Artist Talk with Vikesh Kapoor
2022-01-27 18:00 - 19:00
Vikesh Kapoor, Our Childhood Swimming Pool, 2016
Presented on Zoom
Join us for an Artist Talk with Vikesh Kapoor as he discusses his work and his solo exhibition, awarded from The Print Center’s 96th ANNUAL International Competition.
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Vikesh Kapoor: See You at Home presents a view into the everyday lives of the artist’s parents, who serve as metaphors for the making and breaking of self-identity today. On view January 21 – March 12, 2022.

Guided Exhibition Tour
2022-02-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-02-25 17:00 - 18:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
The Print Center is pleased to offer free, guided tours of the 96th ANNUAL solo exhibitions, led by Ksenia Nouril, our Jensen Bryan Curator. Advance registration is required and capacity is limited to 15 people per tour.
The tour will be repeated on three separate dates and each will explore all three exhibitions: John Joyce: Jab, Cross, Hook, Vikesh Kapoor: See You at Home and Donavon Smallwood: Languor / Beebe.
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Artist Talk with Donavon Smallwood
2022-02-10 18:00 - 19:00
Donavon Smallwood, Untitled, 2020
Presented on Zoom
Join us for an Artist Talk with Donavon Smallwood as he discusses his work and his solo exhibition, awarded from The Print Center’s 96th ANNUAL International Competition.
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Donavon Smallwood: Languor / Beebe presents a selection of recent portraits, landscapes and still lifes that picture the Black body and experience in a state of radical meditation. On view January 21 – March 12, 2022.

Artist Talk with John Joyce
2022-03-03 18:00 - 19:00
John Joyce, Judith “La Peligrosa” Rodriguez, Boxer. Mexico City, 2020
Presented on Zoom
Join us for an Artist Talk with John Joyce as he discusses his work and his solo exhibition, awarded from The Print Center’s 96th ANNUAL International Competition.
Register for the talk
John Joyce: Jab, Cross, Hook presents a showcase of Joyce’s platinum palladium prints from three ongoing series: “Gimnasio Nuevo Jordan,” “Philadelphia” and “Mexican Portraits.” On view January 21 – March 12, 2022.
