The Print Center

The Print Center Honors: Cultural Leadership
2012-11-14 18:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
A Special Evening Honoring
Feather Houstoun & Gary Steuer
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 | Cocktails 6:00pm; Dinner 7:00pm
The Print Center, a nonprofit organization showing contemporary prints and photography, will honor Feather Houstoun and Gary Steuer for their significant contributions to the cultural community as part of a series of events leading up to the Center’s 100th anniversary in 2015. The event will take place November 14, 2012 at The Print Center.
Feather Houstoun, former president of the William Penn Foundation, is senior advisor to the Wyncote Foundation for public media and journalism. Perhaps best known for her career in the public sector, she has served as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Public Welfare, Treasurer of the State of New Jersey and chief financial officer of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Prior to joining the Foundation, Houstoun was an executive with AmeriChoice and a senior visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. As leader of the William Penn Foundation, Houstoun was instrumental in helping the Philadelphia cultural community become an integral part of the region’s economy. She inspired arts organizations to strengthen their own internal management and encouraged them to promote the importance of the arts to all citizens.
Since 2008 Gary Steuer has held the position of Chief Cultural Officer in the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy for the City of Philadelphia. The Office’s charge is increasing the public’s access to and awareness of the arts, arts education and cultural opportunities and activities, coordinating the efforts of City agencies and cultural institutions, and promoting investment in the creative sector. He is a member of the Mayor’s Cabinet, advising on cultural and creative economy issues. Previously, Steuer was the Vice President for Private-Sector Affairs at Americans for the Arts, and the Executive Director of the Art & Business Council of Americans for the Arts. He has written, lectured and taught on arts management and policy issues and has served on many boards of directors and advisory panels for local, state and national organizations. He regularly contributes blog posts to the Huffington Post, the Americans for the Arts ARTSblog and for his site Arts, Culture and Creative Economy. Steuer has played a significant role in making our city a magnet for young artists, in encouraging investment in the creative sector, and in outstanding cultural activities of all kinds.
The program honoring Houstoun and Steuer is the third of five annual events, entitled The Print Center Honors, counting down to The Print Center’s 100th Anniversary in 2015, The Print Center honors our first 100 years and looks forward to the future. The Print Center commissioned photographer John Joyce to create a special image to be presented to the honorees.

The Print Center Honors: Educational Excellence
2011-10-25 18:00 - 22:00
A Special Evening Honoring
Sean Buffington & Allan Edmunds
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 | Cocktails 6:00pm; Dinner 7:00pm
This will be the second of five annual events, entitled The Print Center Honors, counting down to The Print Center’s 100th Anniversary in 2015. These celebrations honor our first 100 years and look forward to the future. This year we recognize Educational Excellence by honoring Sean Buffington and Allan Edmunds. The event will be held on Tuesday, October 25. We are pleased to have this opportunity to honor both of their outstanding contributions.
Sean Buffington has been the President and CEO of the University of the Arts since 2007. From its beginnings in 1876 as the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, UArts has played a major role in supporting arts education in Philadelphia. Under Buffington’s tenure UArts has solidified its role as one of the most dynamic academic institutions in the city. Buffington has actively fostered partnerships with other Philadelphia institutions, including The Print Center which has had a close relationship with the UArts’ Printmaking, Photography, Graphic Arts and Book Arts Departments since the 1930s. Many faculty and alumni have been Print Center exhibitors, Board members, lecturers and workshop leaders and dedicated volunteers. Deep connections existed between renowned early faculty members such as Benton Spruance and Jerome Kaplan and such ties continue today. We celebrate the collaborative relationship The Print Center and UArts have enjoyed through almost a century of connection.
Allan Edmunds is the Founder and President of the renowned Brandywine Workshop. Since its inception in 1972, Brandywine has become an international center for printmaking and a resource for art educators. In 2012, the 40th Anniversary of Brandywine will be celebrated with an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For more than twenty-eight years Edmunds has taught at Brandywine, as well as at the high school and college level, and has served as a visiting artist nationally and internationally. Through its education programs, the workshop promotes printmaking as a fine art and a medium that encourages collaborative learning. Born out of Edmunds’ early years as an instructor for Prints in Progress, The Print Center’s education program which brought together practicing artists and children through printmaking, Brandywine connects practicing artists, educators and local youth to create an environment for learning and mentoring that embraces cultural diversity and the production of high quality, limited edition prints. The Print Center continues that tradition today through our Artists-in-Schools Program. We are pleased to honor Edmunds’ lifelong commitment to printmaking and education.
The Print Center commissioned photographer John Joyce to create a special image to be presented to the honorees. Catering is provided by Feast Your Eyes Gourmet Catering.

The Print Center Honors: Curatorial Excellence
2010-11-11 18:00 - 22:00
A Special Evening Honoring
Julie Jensen Bryan & Ruth Fine
Thursday, November 11, 2010 | Cocktails 6:00pm; Dinner 7:00pm
This event, the first of five annual events, begins the count down to The Print Center’s 100th Anniversary in 2015. This year’s celebration, honoring our first 100 years and looking forward to the future is dedicated to recognizing Curatorial Excellence and will be held on Thursday, November 11. The 2010 Print Center Honorees are Julie Jensen Bryan and Ruth Fine. We are pleased to have this opportunity to honor both of their outstanding contributions.
Julie Jensen Bryan is honored for her longstanding dedication to The Print Center, marked by the recent naming of our Curatorial position. Ms. Jensen Bryan has been closely involved with The Print Center since the early 1970s. She joined the Board of Governors in the 1980s, and has remained an Honorary Council member and active supporter of the organization ever since. She is an accomplished photographer, known for her spare and elegant architectural images and her iconic portraits of Maggie Kuhn, the founder of the Gray Panthers.
Ruth Fine is the Curator of Special Projects in Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. where she is the lead author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Mark Rothko’s works on paper and the coordinator of The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States project. Among the exhibitions she has organized for the Gallery are Romare Bearden; John Marin; Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration; Graphicstudio, U.S.F.; Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press; the prints of Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns; and Lessing J. Rosenwald: Portrait of a Collector. Ms. Fine’s professional life has many parallels with activities at The Print Center. She was the curator of former Board member Lessing J. Rosenwald’s outstanding print and drawing collection, and was closely connected to another former Board member, printmaker Benton Spruance. In the 1980s Ms. Fine served The Print Center as an Advisory Board member.
The Print Center commissioned photographer John Joyce to create a special image to be presented to the honorees. Catering is provided by Diverse Catering.
