Conversation: Wood+Paper+Box
2021-05-13 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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, 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, 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.
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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.

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Ticket required

Emerging Collectors Preview
2021-12-01 17:00 - 18:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 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, 2022-03-09 12:00 - 13:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 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.
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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.

Closing Reception: 96th ANNUAL Solo Exhibitions
2022-03-12 15:00 - 18:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Please join us for the Closing Reception for the 96th ANNUAL International Competition Solo Exhibitions. Registration required to attend.
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On view January 21 – March 12, 2022:
John Joyce: Jab, Cross, Hook, Vikesh Kapoor: See You at Home and Donavon Smallwood: Languor / Beebe
Recorded gallery tours will be available online.
All visitors are required to be vaccinated and wear facemasks. Visitor information may change with shifting COVID-19 conditions.
All of The Print Center’s exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.

Book Talk with Sarah Kaufman & Lydia Panas
2022-04-07 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
The Print Center is pleased to present a Conversation and Book Talk with photographers Sarah Kaufman and Lydia Panas. The artists will speak about their individual publications and practices, as well as shared themes across these projects and bodies of work.

Sarah Kaufman’s book Devils Pool (Daylight Books, 2021) is a collection of photographs made at the famed swimming hole of the same name in Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Park. Featuring images of local residents and visitors escaping the noise of the city to find solace and recreation in the water, the book explores the significance of this place for generations of Philadelphians.
Lydia Panas’ book Sleeping Beauty (MW Editions, 2021) features striking images of women reclining in nature. The images speak to the positions women and girls have been placed in historically, while centering the gaze of the subject and collaboration between photographer and sitter. Panas notes: “While my subjects do in actuality turn their gaze towards me, it’s as if at times I turn the camera onto myself, both in the present and back in time.”

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Gallery Talk & Opening Reception for A Brand New End
2022-04-14 17:30 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Please join The Print Center for the Gallery Talk and Opening Reception for A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, featuring newly commissioned work by artist Carmen Winant. Registration is required.

5:30pm: Gallery Talk
With Carmen Winant and Ksenia Nouril, PhD, Jensen Bryan Curator
6 – 7:30pm: Opening Reception*

Capacity is limited. A waiting list will be made available if necessary. All visitors are required to be vaccinated and wear facemasks while indoors.
* Please note, food and drink will not be served as a temporary safety measure.

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The Gallery Talk will also be streamed on Instagram Live!

Artist Talk with Carmen Winant
2022-04-21 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
Film Still: Itinerant Pictures

Please virtually join The Print Center as artist Carmen Winant discusses the origins of A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, place it in context of her overall practice, elaborate on the ways in which this project has been transformative and meditate on how special it has been to return to Philadelphia to work with The Print Center.
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PLEASE NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for April 13

In-Person Guided Exhibition Tour
2022-04-26 17:00 - 17:30, 2022-05-12 12:00 - 12:30, 2022-05-25 17:00 - 17:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Nouril speaking about A Brand New End. Photo: Tim Tiebout
We are pleased to offer free, guided tours of A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, led by exhibition curator Ksenia Nouril.

The tour will be repeated on four separate dates. Advance registration is required and capacity is limited to 15.
All visitors are required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and wear facemasks (age 2 and older) at all times.

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Panel Discussion: Picturing Domestic Violence
2022-04-28 18:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Presented at The Print Center and on Zoom
Please join us for a panel discussion presented in conjunction with our current exhibition of new work by Carmen Winant, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures. The speakers will discuss the visualization of domestic violence through photographs, specifically those used in service of empowerment and self-actualization.

Panelists:
Ruth M. Glenn, President & CEO, NCADV
Roberta Hacker, former Executive Director of WIT (1986-2006)
Dr. Ethan Levine, scholar and advocate

This hybrid event will be presented at The Print Center as well as on Zoom. In-person capacity is limited as a safety measure. All visitors are required to be vaccinated and wear face masks.
Content warning: please be advised that this program will contain adult content, including descriptions and depictions of domestic violence.

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Ruth M. Glenn is the CEO and President of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). She received a Masters’ in Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Colorado Denver’s Program on Domestic Violence.
Ms. Glenn has worked and volunteered in the domestic violence (DV) field for almost three decades, working with the Colorado Department of Human Services for 19 years and then serving as their Director of the Domestic Violence Program for an additional nine years. She has served on many DV program, funding and grant administration boards, given hundreds of presentations on DV victimization and survival, testified before the United States Congress and provided consultation and training on a national level for survivors’ issues. As a survivor herself, Ms. Glenn also frequently shares her experience to bring awareness to the dynamics of DV.

Roberta L. Hacker has been a life-long activist and leader, addressing the issues of equal rights for women and violence against women. Ms. Hacker began her advocacy career as a Community Liaison for Horizon House, working to deinstitutionalize patients being released from state psychiatric hospitals and facilitating their adjustment to independent community living. Since then, she has served as Executive Director of Voyage House, Philadelphia (now closed); Interim Director of Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth; Coordinator of Community Education for Women In Transition (WIT); and Executive Director of WIT.
In the 90s, Ms. Hacker established and coordinated a local workgroup on domestic violence (DV). Her leadership led to a collaboration with the Support Center for Child Advocates and in 1995, they jointly convened Philadelphia’s first citywide meeting between advocates against DV and those who focus on the linkages of DV and child abuse, including representatives from law enforcement, child welfare, elder abuse/health care and the District Attorney’s office.
In 2002, Ms. Hacker was awarded funding for Philadelphia’s first Domestic Violence Summit (2003), bringing various professionals together to ensure that battered women and their children receive optimum care from services such as the police department, district attorney’s office, health department, child welfare, shelter system, behavioral health and other DV programs. Ms. Hacker also initiated the creation of the Philadelphia Domestic Violence Hotline Collaboration, leading the county’s four domestic violence programs (WIT, Women Against Abuse, Lutheran Settlement House’s Bilingual Domestic Violence Project, and Congreso de Latinos Unidos Latina Domestic Violence Program) in providing 24-hour bilingual hotline.

Ethan Czuy Levine is a sociologist, anti-violence advocate and award-winning speaker on interpersonal violence and LGBTQ+ and other sexual and gender minority communities. His research focuses primarily on sexual and intimate partner violence.
Levine’s first book, Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Research about Sexual Violence (2021), explores the history and politics of scholarship in this subject. His articles have been published in journals such as Violence Against Women, Sexualities, and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Outside of academia, Levine has more than 10 years of experience advocating for survivors, including staffing crisis hotlines, medical/court/police department accompaniment and supporting survivors and their children in shelters. He also provides education and outreach such as developing/facilitating workshops for diverse community/professional audiences.

About Women In Transition (WIT)
Founded in 1971, Philadelphia-based WIT’s mission is to empower people to move forward in their lives free of domestic violence and substance abuse.

About the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
Founded in 1978, Denver-based NCADV’s mission is to lead, mobilize and raise their voices to support efforts that demand a change of conditions that lead to domestic violence such as patriarchy, privilege, racism, sexism, and classism.

Conversation with Carmen Winant & Donna Ferrato
2022-05-19 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
Registration required
Carmen Winant, 2022. Photo: Jaime Alvarez
Donna Ferrato, 2015. Photo: Cate Dingley
The Print Center is pleased to present a virtual conversation between Carmen Winant and Donna Ferrato, renowned, photo-based feminist artists working to image domestic violence. Register here.
This program foregrounds Ferrato’s work as a pioneer in the photographic depiction of domestic violence and its survival, reflecting upon it through the larger lenses of feminism and photography today.
In their practices, both Ferrato and Winant explore alternatives to patriarchal modes of image-making related to violence against women. Winant’s hallmark practice of creating collages and installations draws on intensive archival research and uses found photography to explore representations of women’s experiences. Ferrato’s highly personal, uncensored black and white documentary photographs bring viewers into hidden and intimate worlds. Both are committed to revealing the fullness of women’s lives, from abuse to pleasure. In conversation, the two will discuss the problems and possibilities of picturing abuse against women.
Ferrato, who has lived in New York City since the mid-1990s, is an internationally acclaimed photojournalist well-known for her groundbreaking documentation of domestic violence. Her seminal book Living With the Enemy (Aperture, 1991) sparked a national discussion on sexual violence and women’s rights. In 2014, Ferrato launched the I Am Unbeatable campaign to expose, document and prevent domestic violence against women and children through real stories of real people. Her new book, Holy, (powerHouse Books, 2021) is a call to action. It proclaims the sacredness of women’s rights and their power to be masters of their own destiny.
Winant is a prominent photography-based artist who was raised in Philadelphia and lives in Columbus, OH. She utilizes installation and collage strategies to examine feminist modes of survival and revolt. Winant is the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University. She was a 2019 Guggenheim fellow in photography and has exhibited her work widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2019, Winant mounted 26 billboards across Canada as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Her recent artist books include My Birth (SPBH Editions and Image Text Ithaca Press, 2018), Notes on Fundamental Joy (Printed Matter Inc., 2019) and Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now (Self Publish Be Happy, 2022).
This program is presented in conjunction with Winant’s major exhibition A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, at The Print Center.
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WAVE Empowerment Self-Defense Class with Women In Transition
2022-06-02 18:00 - 19:30
Presented on Zoom
Contemporary image of WAVE self defense courses. Photo: Women In Transition
Join The Print Center and Women In Transition (WIT) for a virtual self-defense class, offered in concert with our current exhibition, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures.

Led by the staff of WIT, our thought partners for the exhibition, this class will help participants learn verbal and physical boundary setting tools that they can use in the real world. The session will feature discussion and activities around the five components of self- defense: Think, Yell, Run, Fight, and Tell. Participants will be taught a few easy-to-learn physical techniques.

WIT’s classes are trauma-informed, and designed to empower individuals and build their confidence. You don’t need to be an athlete to learn self-defense! The course is intended for people of all genders, skills, abilities, sizes and body types.

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In-Person Guided Exhibition Tour
2022-06-10 12:00 - 13:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Nouril speaking about A Brand New End. Photo: Tim Tiebout
We are pleased to offer free, guided tours of A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, led by exhibition curator Ksenia Nouril.

Advance registration is required and capacity is limited to 15.
All visitors are required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and wear facemasks (age 2 and older) at all times.

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Ticketed Preview: Pop-Up show + Benefit Art Book Sale
2022-09-08 17:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Get a first look at the items available in our Benefit Book Sale and enjoy conversation with Spencer Zahn, whose portfolio of concert posters designed for the Electric Factory in the 1960s and ’70s will be on view in the Pop-Up show A Trip(py) Through Philly’s Music History: Concert Posters by Spencer Zahn. Light refreshments will be served.
Featuring over 200 high-quality, rare and desirable art books, this two-day sale will be an unparalleled opportunity to discover and purchase publications drawn from a number of exceptional private collections which have been generously donated in support of The Print Center.
Purchase a ticket for $35

Pop-Up show + Benefit Art Book Sale
2022-09-09 11:00 - 2022-09-10 18:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Spencer Zahn, Poster for the Grateful Dead, 1971
Andy Warhol, Red Books, 2004

Friday, September 9 + Saturday, September 10, 11am – 6pm
Free and open to the public
A Trip(py) Through Philly’s Music History: Concert Posters by Spencer Zahn will feature over 40 vintage concert posters by the renowned designer, offering a rare glimpse into Philly’s late 1960s and early ’70s music scene.
The Benefit Book Sale will offer over 200 art publications, some of which are out-of-print, rare, or highly unique. Generously donated from private collections (including Zahn’s!), the selection is made up of high-quality photography and other contemporary art books, artist publications and monographs. Ranging in price from $25 to $5,000, there is something special for everyone!
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A ticketed preview will give subscribers the chance to support The Print Center and talk with Spencer Zahn, as well as a first chance to shop the book offerings. The preview will be held from 5 – 7pm on Thursday, September 8, 2022 – tickets can be purchased for $35 here.

Gallery Talk + Opening Reception for Fall Exhibitions
2022-09-15 17:30 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join The Print Center for a Gallery Talk + Opening Reception for our fall exhibitions, A Kaleidoscopic View: Recent Prints from Graphicstudio and Ukrainian Photography Today.
Gallery Talk, 5:30pm
Reception, 6 – 7:30pm

Book Launch: WILDNESS by The Queer Critique Group at Baxter St.
2022-10-06 18:00 - 19:00
Presented on Zoom
Join The Print Center on Zoom as we launch The Queer Critique Group (QCG) at Baxter St.’s new publication, WILDNESS. We will be joined by contributing artists and QCG members Michael McFadden (also the initiator of QCG), Ellie Musgrave and Marc Ohrem-Leclef. Zoom registration required.
WILDNESS features works by photo-based artists Chris Berntsen, Ali Di Luccia, Liz Liguori, Michael McFadden, Ellie Musgrave, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Dr. Picturesque, Kaz Senju, Jeanette Spicer, Bill Travis and Sam Zalutsky, all members of the QCG. Inspired by Jack Halberstam’s Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire, the contributing artists were encouraged to interpret wildness in their own ways. The photographs are accompanied by texts from photographers, artists and curators Allen Frame, Katie Hubbard, Duane Michals, Nandita Raman and Drew Sawyer.
WILDNESS, 2022, soft cover, first edition, 6″ x 8 ¾”, 71 pages and 25 color plates is available for $20. Purchase a copy
Presented on Zoom

Book Launch & Conversation: Theatrum Equorum by Andrea Modica
2022-10-11 18:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Detail from Theatrum Equorum
At The Print Center and on Zoom
Join us as we host a Book Launch & Conversation with Andrea Modica and learn more about her new publication, Theatrum Equorum, published by TIS Books. Presented in conjunction with Modica’s eponymous exhibition at the Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, she will be joined in conversation by the show’s curator and Berman Museum Creative Director, Deborah Barkun; and Nelson Chan, co-founder of TIS Books.

Modica’s series “Theatrum Equorum” captures horses in states of recovery from surgery after procedures such as fracture repair or tooth extraction. It also includes images of the surgical tools essential for these procedures.
There’s something sacred about about the animals and the process of being able to go through this with them—a state of extreme vulnerability for an animal of that power.
— Andrea Modica
Theatrum Equorum is published by TIS Books and is available for preorder! Purchase a copy

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Theatrum Equorum is on view at the Berman Museum of Art through December 11, 2022.

Book Launch: Schools for the Colored by Wendel White
2022-10-20 18:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
At The Print Center and on Zoom
Join The Print Center as we launch Wendel White’s new book, Schools for the Colored, which documents his decades-long journey through, and examination of, the African American landscape. The architecture and geography of America’s educational apartheid, in the form of a system of “colored schools,” is the central focus. He depicts many historic structures and sites in Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania that once operated as segregated schools, including places where buildings that once stood are now gone.
Schools for the Colored is published by Push Pull Editions, Corvallis, OR in an edition of 150.
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