{"id":457,"date":"1989-01-05T20:23:50","date_gmt":"1989-01-06T01:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/?p=457"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:35:28","slug":"kathleen-edwards-seventh-director-1989-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1989\/01\/05\/kathleen-edwards-seventh-director-1989-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Edwards: Our Seventh Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Edwards served as the Executive Director from 1989 until 1998. She set out to make the organization\u00a0as well-known within the city as it was nationally and internationally. She recognized a national trend toward collaborative printmaking and a second wave of print shops opening across the country. \u00a0In response to this renaissance, The Print Center established <a href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1988\/11\/05\/the-print-club-residency-series\/\">The Print Center Residency Series<\/a>. That in turn led to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1992\/11\/05\/crossing-overchanging-places\/\">Crossing Over\/Changing Places<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em> a seven year project of commissions and\u00a0exhibitions of prints by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printshop.org\/\">Lower East Side Print Shop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org\/\">Pyramid Atlantic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brodskycenter.org\/\">Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper <\/a>(now known as The Brodsky Center), <a href=\"http:\/\/crettinger.com\/home.html\">C. R. Ettinger Studio<\/a> and The Print Center. The exhibition traveled throughout the US and Europe from 1992 &#8211; 1995. Other significant exhibitions organized by Edwards include: prints by Jerome Kaplan;\u00a0work by Fluxus artist David Thompson; Philadelphia&#8217;s first exhibition of Kara Walker prints;\u00a0the\u00a0group exhibition <em>Meeting of the Satie Society<\/em> in conjunction with a John Cage exhibition at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philamuseum.org\/\">Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/a>; and first time solo exhibitions for Laura Letinsky and John Andrews, both &#8216;discovered&#8217; through the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1924\/01\/01\/annual-international-competition\/\">Annual International Competition<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Edwards served as the Executive Director from 1989 until 1998. She set out to make the organization\u00a0as well-known within the city as it was nationally and internationally. She recognized a national trend toward collaborative printmaking and a second wave &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1989\/01\/05\/kathleen-edwards-seventh-director-1989-1998\/\" aria-label=\"Kathleen Edwards: Our Seventh Director\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline","tag-directors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}