The Print Center

Y(OURS) Book Launch & Panel Discussion
2016-03-23 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Y(OURS); Published by Lindsay Buchman in collaboration with The Common Press at the University of Pennsylvania
Please join us at The Print Center for a conversation between the authors and contributing artists of the new book, Y(OURS), published by Lindsay Buchman in collaboration with The Common Press at the University of Pennsylvania. Panelists: Kevin Berry, Lindsay Buchman, Matt Neff, Haigen G. Pearson and Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz.
About the book: Through ten perspectives spanning disciplines—history, philosophy, architecture, public policy, and the visual arts—Y(OURS) aims to illuminate the concept of intellectual property, the right of ownership, and the individual as they exist in the space between private and public thought. Examining site as a communal topography, the publication suggests that what is privately possessed is not separate from what is publically governed. Contributors: Rachel Arena, Kevin Berry, Rob Brown, Lindsay Buchman, David DiLeo, Leyla Marandi, Matt Neff, Haigen G. Pearson, Heather M. O’Brien and Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz.

Philadelphia Art Book Fair 2016
2016-04-01 - 2016-04-02 | Annex on Filbert Street, 830 Filbert Street, Philadelphia
Please join us for the second iteration of this exciting two-day event, which brings together new publications from artists and publishers. The Philadelphia Art Book Fair 2016, co-presented by The Print Center and Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, is produced by Fluxus, of the wildly successful Franklin Flea, and sponsored by PREIT, and will welcome a range of exhibitors from photography and art book publishers, individual artists and institutions. Displays will complemented by akeynote lecture and book signings by artists and bookmakers. A full list of exhibitors and programming will be announced in March 2016.
Friday, April 1, 12:00 – 8:00pm & Saturday, April 2, 10:00am – 6:00pm.
www.phlartbookfair.com

DINNER DATE with Jesse Burke & Robert Morrison
2016-04-27 18:00 - 20:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Jesse Burke, I’ll Fly Away II, 2014
Please join us for The Print Center’s spring fundraiser, Dinner Date, with artist Jesse Burke and renowned collector Robert Morrison April 27, 2016.

Jesse Burke is known for his dramatically vivid photographs. His Wild & Precious series was created over the last five years, as he traveled across the country with his young daughter Clover exploring, communing and sometimes bumping up against nature. The series, and its accompanying book, have generated international attention, not only for its beautiful images, but also for its intimate depiction of the close relationship between the photographer and his collaborator/daughter. It also tells the story of our relationship to our environment, urging us to rebuild our connections with the natural world. Works from Burke’s Wild & Precious series are included in By the Book, The Print Center’s current exhibition.

Burke holds an MFA from RISD, Providence, RI, where he teaches photography, and a BFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI; ClampArt, New York, NY; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; and Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA. Burke’s work is included in many public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI; and, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. This past fall he was a guest host on The Print Center’s Instagram feed, as part of our Centennial celebration. An exhibition of Burke’s work, paired with the photographer Nils Ericson, was organized by The Print Center in 2011.

Dinner Date will begin at The Print Center at 6:00pm with a private champagne tour of Burke’s work in our exhibition By the Book led by the artist and John Caperton, Jensen Bryan Curator. A fabulous dinner will follow at Morrison’s exceptional Center City home.

Click HERE to purchase tickets.
Please RSVP by April 25, 2016.

Tour / 6 pm
Private champagne tour of By the Book: New Photography Publications with Jesse Burke and John Caperton, Jensen Bryan Curator
Dinner / 7 pm
An elegant dinner at the dramatic Center City home of renowned collector Robert J. Morrison.

Guests who join us at the Benefactor level or above will receive I’ll Fly Away II, 2014, created especially for this event by Jesse Burke. I’ll Fly Away II is an 10” x 8” inkjet print in an edition of ten.

Visionary: $1,200 for four individuals
*Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Jesse Burke
*Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Robert J. Morrison
*I’ll Fly Away II by Jesse Burke

Benefactor: $600 per person; $850 per couple
*Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Jesse Burke
*Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Robert J. Morrison
*I’ll Fly Away II by Jesse Burke

Patron: $300 per person; $550 per couple
*Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Jesse Burke
*Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Robert J. Morrison

Supporter: $100 per person
*Private champagne tour of the exhibition with Jesse Burke

Honorary Committee
Dr. Joseph Chazan
Emily Gowen
Gabriel Martinez
Allison & Matt Neff
Judith Tannenbaum
Bob Tursack
John Wind

For more information contact Jacqui Evans at 215.735.6090 x1 or jevans@printcenter.org

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for Summer 2016 Exhibitions
2016-05-05 17:30 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join us for the Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for our Summer 2016 exhibitions, Jeffrey Dell: Sightings, Andrew Fillmore: This Time is Always the Present and Leah Mackin: Portable Document.
Gallery Talk: 5:30pm
Opening Reception: 6:00 – 8:00pm

About the shows:
The prints in Jeffrey Dell’s exhibition, which depict sheets of curled and folded paper, are deceptively simple. In his screenprints, colors shift and flux, challenging our perceptual abilities. “I am interested,” says Dell, “in how basic human desires cooperate with facilities of perception. I am trying to make an image that is seductive, but where the very thing that seduces us also deceives.”
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The photographs in Andrew Fillmore’s exhibition are still lifes and portraits, all of which depict the objects and scenarios most immediate to his everyday life. Fillmore says he is concerned with “the idea that within the simplicity of these moments, a balance of fragments and associations might disclose the psychological threads of my experience in the present.”
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Leah Mackin’s exhibition Portable Document is composed of images, based on digital photographs, of historical material available online. Mackin responds to the digital surrogate of the scrapbook, examining the handling of and relationship with archival materials as physical objects. In this show, work from Mackin’s ongoing investigation of materials, both physically and intellectually, include printed works on paper and sculpture that reflect on her interaction with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (the institution that holds The Print Center’s Archives).

Open Door at Bartram's Garden
2016-05-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Bartram’s Garden, 5400 Lindbergh Blvd, Philadelphia, 19143
Open Door is a program of The Print Center that shares unique behind-the-scenes tours at Philadelphia’s most intriguing cultural sites with our audience.

Join us for a discovery tour of Bartram’s Garden, home of America’s first great naturalist John Bartram, and now a 45-acre National Historic Landmark on the banks of the Schuylkill River. Join curator Joel Fry and be among the first to see the newly restored John Bartram House, which has just opened after a year of construction, and see the progress towards recreating Ann Bartram Carr’s flower garden, the only restored 19th century garden in Philadelphia.

This is a free event, however, it is limited to 25 people and RSVP is required. Send your RSVP to Mikaela Hawk at mhawk@printcenter.org.

Artist Talk & Book Signing with Susan Bank
2016-06-09 18:00 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join artist Susan Bank and publisher Brilliant Press for an artist talk and signing of her new book Piercing the Darkness.

Piercing the Darkness (2016) is Bank’s second monograph and features black-and-white photographs made in Cuba between 1999 and 2009.

This event is FREE. Click here to RSVP

BYO Social with Good Game
2016-06-14 18:00 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join us for a BYO Social with Good Game Magazine.

BYO Socials bring artists and art appreciators together for fun, casual conversations. Come meet Sam Belkowitz of Good Game!
Good Game aims to nurture connections between Philadelphia-based, national and international artists, writers, collectives, alternative spaces, commercial galleries, museums, and educational programs, as a means of supporting and promoting a dynamic and growing creative community.

Bring your own beverage and join us for a drink!

This event is FREE. Click here to RSVP.

The Muse Behind the Artist III with Penn’s Village
2016-07-20 17:30 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
The Print Center is happy to host Penn’s Village series The Muse Behind the Artist III in our historic Rittenhouse Square carriage house.
Please join us along with Penn’s Village for a conversation with local artists Michael Froio, Rebecca Gilbert, Matt Neff and Amanda Tinker as they discuss the inspiration behind their art, which will be moderated by Executive Director Elizabeth Spungen.
A wine and cheese reception with the artists will follow.
This program is free for Penn’s Village members and volunteers; a $5 donation is appreciated from all other guests.
RSVP is required. Please register with Penn’s Village by emailing info@pennsvillage.org or call 215 925.7333.
Please note: The Print Center is not easily accessed if you have difficulty with mobility.

Images from left to right: Michael Froio, Jacks Narrows, near Mapleton, Pennsylvania, 2008. Matt Neff, Brothers Sisters Use Your Strong Voices in Song, 2010. Rebecca Gilbert, Safe Keeping Place, 2011. Amanda Tinker, Untitled, 2012.

Make Art Philly Day
2016-07-27 10:00 - 14:00 | City Hall, 1401 John F Kennedy Blvd, Philadelphia, 19107, United States
The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy will host Make Art Philly, a day of art-making and crafting all around the theme of voting in City Hall’s historic courtyard on Wednesday, July 27 from 10am – 2pm. Cultural organizations from throughout Philadelphia will share their art-making skills, allowing visitors to participate in activities including screenprinting with The Print Center in partnership with Second State Press, collaging with the Dumpster Divers of Philadelphia, button-making with the Main Line Art Center, puppet making with the Mann Center, clay working with the Clay Studio and many other family-friendly activities. The voting themed art-making is an extension of Philly VOTE and Get Out the Vote Art in City Hall exhibitions.
This is a FREE event.
The Print Center at 1614 Latimer Street will be closed all day Wednesday for this event.

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for Fall 2016 Exhibitions
2016-09-15 17:30 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join us for the Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for our Fall 2016 exhibitions,
Victoria Burge: Penumbra and Celestial/Terrestrial
Gallery Talk: 5:30pm
Opening Reception: 6:00 – 8:00pm

About the exhibitions:
The Print Center presents two exhibitions: Penumbra, a solo exhibition that features new work by Victoria Burge (Philadelphia, PA), and Celestial/Terrestrial, a related group exhibition including Caleb Charland (Bangor, ME), Christopher Colville (Tempe, AZ), Marianne Dages (Philadelphia, PA) and Garrett Hansen (Lexington, KY).
Penumbra is the first solo exhibition in Philadelphia for Burge. The show includes large and small-scale photographs, prints and drawings on printed material, which present a variety of interpretations of the effects of light.
Celestial/Terrestrial is a group exhibition of photographs and prints featuring images which resemble things celestial, but are derived from a variety of disparate sources.

This event is free and open to the public.
Images, Top: Victoria Burge, Lacuna I, 2013. Bottom, from left to right: Caleb Charland, Camera Placed On My Solar Plexus While Laying On The Ground At Night For Several Hours; Christopher Colville, Horizon, 2015; Marianne Dages, An Equivalent VI, 2014; Garrett Hansen, Untitled from the series “The Void,” 2014.

Artist Lecture with Victoria Burge
2016-10-20 18:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join us for an artist lecture with Victoria Burge, who describes her work in Penumbra, a solo exhibition that features new work, as “a visual atlas. A compendium of drawings, prints, installation, objects that narrate a record of intense looking. Relationships between art and science: of charting, mapping, record keeping and developing a visual code(x).”

About the artist:
Victoria Burge studied Art History at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York holds an AS in Horticulture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a BA from Purchase College, State University of New York and an MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, where she lives and works.
Burge’s work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and art fairs, nationally and internationally, including Frameless Gallery, London; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; International Print Center New York; Steven Amedee Gallery, New York; and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her work is held in many corporate, private and public collections including: The British Museum, London; New York Public Library; and Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.
This event is free and open to the public.

Image: Victoria Burge in her Studio. Photo: Steven Dufala

Latvian Poetry Book Launch and Signing with Laris Kreslins & Kevin Mercer
2016-10-27 18:00 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Please join poet, curator, and graphic designer Laris Kreslins along with Philadelphia based artist, illustrator and printmaker Kevin Mercer for a Latvian Poetry Book Launch & Signing of new Latvian poetry: Atlaidas/es, a 72 page volume with various color pages/plates featuring work by Mercer.
“I’m excited to announce my latest book of poems Atlaidas/es. This new collection is about empathy, misplaced and imagined memories, and all sorts of endings.” – Laris Kreslins
The book has been designed to be a convenient pocket size volume measuring in at 4 x 7 inches. It contains over 60 new, never before published micro-poems and it will be printed in a limited and numbered edition of 200.

We were hooked on this book launch by the description of the poetry. Laris Kreslins, poet, curator and graphic designer calls his poems micro-poems and says they are about “empathy, misplaced and imagined memories, and all sorts of endings.” Kreslin’s pocket-sized book (4×7”), titled Atlaidas/es, and with art by Kevin Mercer, is printed in an edition of 200. We think the size is perfect for the micro-poems. – artblog

This Event is Free and Open to the Public.

The Review Panel Philadelphia
2016-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, United States
November 2, 2016 at 6:00pm
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 North Broad Street, Philadelphia
FREE Admission / Registration required / RSVP at 215-972-2015

COLLEEN ASPER and JUDITH STEIN join moderator DAVID COHEN
to discuss the following Philadelphia exhibitions:
Todd Baldwin: Memento Mori
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 319A North 11th Street #2H
Victoria Burge: Penumbra
The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street
Luba Drozd: Institute of Corrections
Brian James Spies: Solitaire
Eastern State Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Avenue
Kocot and Hatton, Color: Seen and Unseen
Larry Becker Contemporary Art, 43 North 2nd Street

Image: a previous Review Panel with (L to R) Bobbi Booker, David Cohen, Judith Stein and Christian Viveros-Fauné.

Screen Shots: The Print Center Annual Auction
2016-12-03 17:00 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
VISIT THE FULL AUCTION PAGE HERE

SCREEN SHOTS: POST AUCTION SALE
Shop our Post Auction Sale before it’s too late! The Post Auction sale ends December 22, 2016.
Click here to shop the Post Auction Sale

Great Art For a Great Cause and a Fabulous Party!

The Print Center’s Annual Auction is a Wonderful Opportunity to Support a Creative Organization,
Collect Exceptional Art and Enjoy a Fabulous Party!
Screen Shots: The Print Center Annual Auction, our biggest fundraising event of the year, was held on Saturday, December 3, 2016 from 6:00-9:00pm with an Exclusive Champagne Preview beginning at 5:00pm. The proceeds from this auction went towards funding exhibitions featuring local, regional and international artists and all of The Print Center’s intriguing visual art and education programs.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SCREEN SHOTS INVITATION
View all donated works on Paddle8
The Screen Shots Auction bidding closed at 8:00pm on December 3, 2016.

VISIT THE FULL AUCTION PAGE HERE

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for Winter Exhibitions
2016-12-15 17:30 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Arturas Valiauga, I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life, 2002
Join us for the Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for our Winter exhibitions,
Daily Life: Photography from Lithuania and Rebecca Gilbert: wonder
Gallery Talk: 5:30pm
John Caperton, The Print Center’s Jensen Bryan Curator, will be joined by artists Rebecca Gilbert and Gintaras Česonis, Chairman of the Lithuanian Photographer’s Association and organizer of Daily Life.
Opening Reception: 6:00 – 8:00pm

About the exhibitions:
DAILY LIFE: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM LITHUANIA
This group exhibition brings together the work of twelve Lithuanian photographers who observe and capture the daily routines of life. Organized by the Lithuanian Photographers’ Association, the exhibition provides an overview of some of the most significant photography from Lithuania, 1963-2013.

Rebecca Gilbert, Confluence, 2016
REBECCA GILBERT: WONDER
This exhibition presents a new, ambitious series of work, utilizing woodcut, engraving and other traditional print processes, by the Philadelphia-based artist.

Exhibitions Page
Press Release
This event is free and open to the public.

Telling a Life, Telling Art History
2017-01-10 18:00 - 19:30
Conversation and Book Signing
Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
Judith Stein and Jonathan Katz
Please join us for a conversation on biography and art history with Judith Stein, author of Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art, and Jonathan D. Katz, author of the forthcoming Cold War Queer: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and the Collective Closet. Stein’s new book recovers the lost history of the elusive art dealer who launched the careers of numerous contemporary artists at his fabled Green Gallery in New York.
A book signing for Eye of the Sixties, available for purchase, will follow the conversation.
Vulture magazine named Eye of the Sixties as one of the year’s ten best art books in 2016!
Dick Bellamy: The Man Hiding at the Center of Everything, The New York Times, Art & Design, by Barbara Rose, July 22, 2016
Judith Stein
Peter Bellamy, Dick Bellamy at the Oil & Steel Gallery on Chambers Street, NY, c. 1983
George Segal, Richard Bellamy Seated, 1964. Plaster and metal

Henry Horenstein: Lecture, Films + Books!
2017-01-26 18:00 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Please join us for an evening with Henry Horenstein, the renowned photographer, filmmaker and much-loved Professor of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Horenstein has published more than 30 books, including Animalia, Close Relations, Show and Honky Tonk, which was the subject of a solo show at The Print Center in 2004. His photographic textbooks have been a resource for students over the decades.
Horenstein is an engaging and entertaining storyteller, bringing humor and wisdom to tales from his remarkable career. He will share his stories, images and present his two newest books: Histories: Tales From the 70s and his memoir, Shoot What You Love: Tips and Tales from A Working Photographer.
Shoot What you Love is a book every artist should read. Horenstein’s warmth and wit shine through as he recounts his thoughts on all the places and situations photography has introduced him to. From artist statements to fine art and commercial photography, corporate jobs, working in far flung locales, book publishing and documentary film making, he covers it all in his inimitable, approachable yet brilliant way.
This is also a special opportunity to see his three films SPOKE, Mr. Showbiz and Partners.
A book signing will follow the talk – both new books and a selection of old favorites will be available for purchase.

Histories: Tales From The 70s – a monograph featuring his earliest documentary work.
Histories: Tales From the 70s, 2016, Honky Tonk Editions, Hardcover, 144 pages, $60

Shoot What You Love: Tips and Tales from A Working Photographer – a visual memoir of Henry Horenstein’s career, as well as a history of the last several decades in photography.
Shoot What You Love: Tips and Tales from A Working Photographer, 2016, Monacelli Press, Hardcover, 208 pages, $40

READ THE REVIEWS
“Henry Horenstein: Histories: Tales From the 70’s,” Greer Muldowney, LENSCRATCH, December 10, 2014
“Henry Horenstein’s ‘Shoot What You Love’,” David Schonauer, Pro Photo Daily, December 15, 2016

Artist Statement
Over the years I’ve photographed many different types of subjects, even animals and the human form. But I’ve always returned to my roots as a documentary photographer. More than anything, I like a good story. And I try to tell one in a direct way, with humor and a punch line, if possible. With this in mind, I have photographed country musicians in Nashville, my family and friends in Massachusetts, horse racing at Saratoga, nightlife in Buenos Aires, old highways everywhere, everyone in Cajun Louisiana, South American baseball, camel breeding in Dubai, tri-racial families in Maryland, and much, much more.
For subjects, I prefer older cultures and places, especially disappearing ones. That’s what my history teachers, Jesse Lemisch (at University of Chicago) and E. P. Thompson (at University of Warwick), taught me to do. These cultures and places might vanish, but it is a historian’s righteous duty to make sure that they leave a trace. I also was very influenced by another teacher in Chicago, John G. Cawelti, who taught me (and doubting historians predating him) that popular culture should be taken seriously. One other great influence for me was my teacher at Rhode Island School of Design, Harry Callahan. Harry encouraged me to “shoot what you love,” and to pay no attention to what others are doing. “Even if you make bad pictures,” he said, “you’ll have a good time.” Thank you for that, Harry.

About the Artist
Noted photographer and filmmaker Henry Horenstein was a history student at University of Chicago, before switching to photography. He studied with classic photographers Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White, but his background in history influenced his choice of subject matter from country music to horse racing to burlesque. Henry has published over 30 books, including classic textbooks Black and White Photography, Beyond Basic Photography, and Digital Photography; and monographs Honky Tonk, Shoot What You Love, Histories, Racing Days, Animalia, Humans, Show, and Close Relations. Henry’s photographs are widely collected and exhibited internationally. He lives in Boston, MA, and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design.

Free and open to the public

David Freese | East Coast: Arctic to Tropic
2017-02-07 18:00 - 19:30
Please join us for an evening with photographer David Freese, who will talk about his work and the newly released East Coast: Arctic to Tropic.
Freese has devoted many years to photographing the coasts of the United States. Following the publication of the very-well received West Coast: Bering to Baja is his new book documenting the eastern seaboard. Together his books illustrate “our uneasy relationship to the vast oceans and seas that cover 70% of our planet and home.”

Human beings can be clever, resourceful, and ingenious. The challenge is whether or not we can harness and master our skills and use new technologies and policies in a worldwide endeavor to save and protect our future whereabouts. These images will no doubt become a reference point for succeeding generations. Many of the areas I photographed will be underwater—only the time frame is in question. This book is meant to heighten awareness by letting people see for themselves – through the arts of photography and writing – our uneasy relationship to the vast oceans and seas that cover 70% of our planet and home. – David Freese
Both of Freese’s books will be available for purchase and signing following his talk.
East Coast: Arctic to Tropic, text by Jenna Butler & Simon Winchester, 2017, George F. Thompson, Hardcover, 320 pages, $65
West Coast: Bering to Baja, text by Naomi Rosenblum & Simon Winchester, 2012, George F. Thompson, Hardcover, 192 pages, $60
READ THE REVIEWS
“David Freese: East Coast: Arctic To Tropic,” LENSCRATCH, by Aline Smithson, January 5, 2017
“The Staggering Beauty and Fragility of North America’s East Coast,” Slate, by David Rosenberg, September 19, 2016

Angel Oak, Johns Island, South Carolina
Orrs Island, Casco Bay, Maine
Photograph by Amanda Freese DeFazio

Bio
For over thirty years, David Freese worked as a freelance assignment photographer shooting corporate/industrial and editorial photography on location. He also worked as a contract photographer for Gamma Liaison in New York City and for Zuma Press in San Clemente, California.
Always engaged in his personal work, David now devotes his full attention to his book and fine art photography projects and to his teaching in the Film and Media Arts Department at Temple University. He has previously taught at Saint Joseph’s University, Moore College of Art, Drexel University and was the founder and director of the photography program at Burlington County College where he taught for 25 years and received the Excellence Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development for outstanding contributions to teaching, leadership and learning.
His work has been published in Communication Arts, Photo District News, Photo Insider, View Camera, Polaroid International, Smithsonian Air and Space, MIT Technology Review and Popular Photography. His photographs are in the collections of the Allentown Art Museum, Center for Creative Photography, Center for the Study of Place, Cleveland Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art, Haverford College, James A. Michener Art Museum, Library of Congress, the Polaroid Collection, UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, the Russian Union of Art Photographers, and the University of Wyoming Art Museum as well as in numerous corporate art collections.
David was awarded a 2013 artist grant in photography by the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation and he was awarded a 2014 grant in photography by the Puffin Foundation. David has also received both a Fellowship in the Visual Arts and a Special Opportunity Stipend from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts as well as a Polaroid Artist Support Grant.

Rebecca Gilbert, Artist Lecture
2017-03-23 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Ant Mound, 2015
Please join us for an artist lecture with Rebecca Gilbert, who will discuss the works in our current exhibition wonder, as well as earlier projects. Gilbert’s works come out of her deep commitment to traditional print processes including wood engraving and complex, multiple-layered reduction woodcuts, and her poetic response to the landscape.
“I have been using dirt, water, sticks, coins and gold as imagery in my work to symbolize that which we impulsively crave, seek out and hold valuable.” – Rebecca Gilbert
About the Artist
Rebecca Gilbert received her BFA in Printmaking from Marshall University, Huntington, WV and her MFA in Printmaking/Book Arts from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She also studied nontoxic etching at the Grafisk Eksperimentarium, Capileira, Spain. For several years she was a member of Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, where she presented three solo exhibitions and curated several group exhibitions.
“Rebecca Gilbert: Wonder,” Martha Knox, Words on Woodcuts (blog), March 3, 2017
“Rebecca Gilbert,” Rachel Sitkin, The Studio Visit, March 21, 2016

Free and open to the public

Philadelphia Art Book Fair 2017
2017-05-05 12:00 - 2017-05-06 18:00
Once again proudly co-presented by Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and The Print Center this two-day event showcases a wide range of exhibitors, from large and small photography and art book publishers to individual artists and institutions, local, national and international.
Friday, May 5: 12:00pm – 8:00pm
Saturday, May 6: 10:00am – 6:00pm
This year we’re in a brand new beautiful location:
Twelve 27, 1227 N. 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
(North 4th Street, just north of Girard Avenue)
The event is open to the public and totally free!
The Print Center will be closed on Friday, May 5 + Saturday, May 6 for the Philadelphia Art Book Fair 2017. We hope you will join us there.

THE PRINT CENTER AT
THE PHILADELPHIA ART BOOK FAIR
Our table will feature amazing publications that you cannot find anywhere else!
Here is a sneak peek:
Publications on:
Edna Andrade
David Hartt
Henry Horenstein
Joel Katz
Isaac Tin Wei Lin
Demetrius Oliver
Keliy Anderson-Staley
Doug + Mike Starn
Richard Torchia
Publications from:
Cannonball Press
Good Game (Issue 1)
Good Game (Issue 2)
Printeresting
Harrison Walker
Prints by:
Rebecca Gilbert

Gallery Talks and Opening Reception
2017-05-11 17:30 - 20:00
TR Ericsson: Jeanne; Yoonmi Nam: Still; and, Serena Perrone: Fata Morgana
THURSDAY, May 11, 2017
Gallery Talk by the Artists: 5:30pm
Opening Reception for these three exhibitions: 6:00 – 8:00pm
The Print Center is pleased to present solo exhibitions of new work by TR Ericsson, Yoonmi Nam and Serena Perrone. These artists were awarded solo exhibitions from the 400 applicants to our 91st Annual International Competition. The jurors for this competition were Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art; and Jennifer Farrell, Associate Curator, Drawings and Prints, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Please join us on Thursday, May 11 for the Gallery Talk by the Artists and Opening Reception. This event is Free and open to the public.
For more information about the exhibitions click here

Dinner Date: The Print Center Celebrates Serena Perrone
2017-05-19 18:00 - 21:00
Please join us for Dinner Date with artist Serena Perrone and hosts Ofelia Garcia and Donald W. McPhail
May 19 2017

Tour—6 pm
Private champagne tour of Fata Morgana with Serena Perrone and John Caperton, Jensen Bryan Curator
Dinner—7 pm
An elegant dinner at the beautiful Old City home
of Ofelia Garcia, co-hosted by Donald W. McPhail

Guests at the Benefactor level or above will receive Darkness, 2017 (Aquatint, 10” x 8″, Edition of 25) created especially for this event by Serena Perrone

Please respond by May 15, 2017

To purchase tickets click here
For other forms of payment please contact: Mikaela Hawk 215.735.6090 x1 mhawk@printcenter.org
Serena Perrone is an exceptional print-based artist who began receiving remarkable attention shortly after she earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. Perrone‘s work addresses her personal history, the history of place and the history of the printed image. She is known for her exquisite and delicate rendering, often used to create epically-scaled cycles, such as the twenty-panel A Volcano Pilgrim in Exchange for Fire, included in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition Here and Now, 2011. The work she has created for The Print Center, Darkness, dramatically depicts a Venetian glass chandelier from a church in Murano, Italy.
The Philadelphia-based artist is also the Founder and Director of Officina Stamperia del Notaio, an artists’ residency and printmaking studio in Sicily. Her work has been acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery; Detroit Institute of Arts; New York Public Library; Whitney Museum of American Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and, the RISD Museum. She received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and is represented by Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence.

Visionary: $1,200 for four individuals
— Private champagne tour of Fata Morgana with Serena Perrone
— Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Ofelia Garcia
— Darkness by Serena Perrone

Benefactor: $600 per person; $850 per couple
— Private champagne tour of Fata Morgana with Serena Perrone
— Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Ofelia Garcia
— Darkness by Serena Perrone

Patron: $300 per person; $550 per couple
— Private champagne tour of Fata Morgana with Serena Perrone
— Elegant dinner and conversation with the artist at the home of Ofelia Garcia

Supporter: $100 per person
— Private champagne tour of Fata Morgana with Serena Perrone

Former Honorees
Jesse Burke
Sarah McEneaney
Matt Neff
Lydia Panas
Bill Scott
Emma Wilcox
William Earle Williams

Dinner Date Committee
Judith Brodsky
Diane Burko
Julie Jensen Bryan + Robert Bryan*
Stewart Cades
Avi Eden*
Eileen Kennedy + Robert Heim*
Robert Morrison*
Liz Osborne
Barbara Schaff*
Michael Shannon*
Innis Howe Shoemaker
Evan Summer
Judith Stein
Anna + Menno Tas*
Cade Tompkins
Joan Wadleigh Curran*
John Wind*

* Former Host
As of April 28, 2017

Honorary Council
Linda Lee Alter
James D. Crawford, Esq.
Louise Curl Adams
Richard P. Jaffe, Esq.
Julie Jensen Bryan
Smokie Kittner
Ennes Littrell
Donald W. McPhail
Guna Mundheim
Jeannie Pearce
Ron Rumford
Suzanne Ilene Schiller
Keith Straw
Peggy Wachs
Joan Wadleigh Curran
Jay Zemel

Board of Governors
Barbara Beck
Blake Bradford
Jeffrey Cooper
Frances G. Gerson
Aaron Goldblatt
David Graham
Shelley R. Langdale, ex officio
Anne Massoni
Robert J. Morrison
Julie Randolph
Hester Stinnett
Mark Vevle
Katherine Ware

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for Martin Puryear: Prints, 1962-2016
2017-09-07 17:30 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Martin Puryear, Untitled IV, State 1, 2012, © Martin Puryear, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Join us for the Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for our Fall exhibition,
Martin Puryear: Prints, 1962-2016

Thursday, September 7, 2017
—Gallery Talk 5:30pm
with Elizabeth F. Spungen, Executive Director
—Opening Reception 6:00 – 8:00pm

Martin Puryear: Prints, 1962-2016 will be on view September 8 — November 18, 2017

This event is free and open to the public.

BOOK LAUNCH | Jack Carnell: True Places
2017-10-20 18:00 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join us for an evening with photographer Jack Carnell and Fall Line Press. Carnell will talk about his work and the release of his new book True Places, published by our friends at Fall Line.
Carnell spent ten years making repeat visits to Georgia. The photographs in this book grew out of his experience of the South and the “true places” that captured his imagination.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
– Herman Melville
True Places will be available for purchase and signing following the talk.
True Places, 2017, Fall Line Press, Hardcover, 64 pages, 51 plates, $60.
Also available in a deluxe edition of 40 in a clam shell box with a signed 8″ x 10” photographic print, $350.
This event is free and open to the public.

Jack Carnell was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in the suburb of Elmhurst. In 1974 he received a BFA degree in photography from The University of New Mexico and in 1976 Carnell received a MFA degree in photography from The Tyler School of Art, Temple University. In 1980 he received a NEA grant for emerging photographers and in 1988 a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Carnell’s work is in the collections of several national museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Carnell has taught photography since 1976 and is currently an Associate Professor at Jefferson (Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University) teaching in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment.

BOOK EVENT | Christine Filippone: Science, Technology and Utopias
2017-10-25 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
We welcome former Print Center Executive Director Christine Filippone, Ph.D., (now Professor of Art History at Millersville University of Pennsylvania), for a discussion about her new book Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War. She will be joined by her Air and Space Museum fellowship advisor Martin Collins, (Curator, Space History Department, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution).
Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America will be available for purchase and signing following the talk.
Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America, 2017, Routledge, Hardcover, 204 pages, 64 black and white illustrations, $150.

This event is free and open to the public.

Network for New Music: Puryear Connections
2017-11-12 15:00 - 17:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Network for New Music: Puryear Connections
Sunday, November 12, 2017
3:00 – 5:00pm at The Print Center
We are pleased to welcome Network for New Music back to The Print Center for a performance of new music created in response to artworks by Martin Puryear.
The Network ensemble will debut new works commissioned from composers Cynthia Folio, Robert Maggio, Jeffrey Mumford and Roberto Pace inspired by works in our exhibition Martin Puryear, Prints: 1962 – 2016. Mario Davidovsky’s String Trio will also be performed.
Following the performance, a panel discussion will take place with Cynthia Folio, Robert Maggio and Roberto Pace, Composers; Linda Reichert, Artistic Director and Co-founder Network for New Music and Ruth Fine, Exhibition Curator of Martin Puryear: Prints, 1962-2016.
There will be a reception following the concert.
TICKET REQUIRED. Go to www.networkfornewmusic.org/events

IMPRESSED: The Print Center Benefit Auction
2017-12-02 17:00 - 20:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
IMPRESSED
The Print Center Benefit Auction
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Exclusive Champagne Preview at 5:00pm
General Admission at 6:00pm
Bidding closes at 8:00pm
*Tickets Required
View Full Event Details, Invitation, and Ticket Information Here

BOOK LAUNCH with Greg Pizzoli!
2017-12-09 15:00 - 17:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
BOOK LAUNCH!
The New Picture Book by Greg Pizzoli: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Saturday, December 9, 2017
3:00 – 5:00pm

Come celebrate the release of the new picture book by Geisel Award and Winning Author and Illustrator Greg Pizzoli!
There will be Snacks, Storytime, Raffles and Art Activities – something for kids of all ages! Get copies of 12 Days of Christmas, and his other titles The Watermelon Seed, Number One Sam, Templeton Gets His Wish and Good Night Owl (all $16.99) signed by Greg, as well as a special selection of Pizzoli games and toys. They all make great Christmas gifts!

To learn more about Greg Pizzoli and his books, visit our Gallery Store.

Opening Reception
2018-01-11 05:30 - 19:30
Collaborative Histories: Dieu Donné
AND
By the Book Vol. 2: New Photography Publications
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 11, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Gallery Talk: Thursday, January 11, 5:30pm

Exhibition Page, click here

2018 SPE Annual Conference
2018-03-01 18:30 - 2018-03-03 16:30
Visit Us at the Exhibits Fair!
Uncertain Times: Borders, Refuge, Community, Nationhood
Hosted by The University of the Arts
Exhibits Fair Schedule
Thursday, March 1, 6:30–8:00pm: Exhibits Fair Welcome Reception
Friday, March 2, 10:00am–4:30pm
Saturday, March 3, 10:00am–4:30pm
If you are at the conference, come see us at our table at the Exhibits Fair at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.

The Print Center’s table is T4. The map and list of exhibitors at the Exhibits Fair is on page 28 of the pdf.
