The Print Center

Artist Talk with John Joyce
2022-03-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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.

Guided Exhibition Tour
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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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.
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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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Conversation: Mark Thomas Gibson + William Villalongo
2022-10-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Tyler School of Art & Architecture, 2001 N. 13th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19122, United States
(left) William Villalongo; (right) Mark Thomas Gibson. Photos: Argenis Apolinario Photography and Joe Labolito/Temple University

Presented in-person at Tyler School of Art & Architecture and on Zoom
In conjunction with The Print Center’s current exhibition, A Kaleidoscopic View: Recent Prints from Graphicstudio (on view through November 12), Tyler School of Art & Architecture will host a conversation between alumnus William Villalongo (MFA ’01) and Assistant Professor of Painting Mark Thomas Gibson as part of their Critical Dialogue Series. A Kaleidoscopic View features prints by both artists and highlights boundary-pushing artwork created at Graphicstudio, an experimental printshop at the University of South Florida. Gibson and Villalongo will discuss what draws them to printmaking in their own work, as well as in their co-curatorial project, Black Pulp. Print Center Executive Director Elizabeth F. Spungen will moderate the discussion.

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Attend in-person:
Tyler School of Art & Architecture
Architecture Building, Room 104
2001 N. 13th St., Philadelphia, PA, 19122

Co-sponsored + hosted by Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Book Launch & Panel Discussion: A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures by Carmen Winant
2022-10-27 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 our new publication with Carmen Winant, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures. Winant will be joined by panelists Yoonjai Choi, Ksenia Nouril, Drew Sawyer + Paige Sweet.
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Registration not required to attend in-person
Text contributions in the publication respond to a rich selection of imagery, all sourced from the archives of Women In Transition and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Laia Abril, Suzanne Lacy and Irene Brantley write on the topic of T-shirts made by survivors; Donna Ferrato on her iconic Time magazine cover stories profiling survivors; Ruth M. Glenn on lapel pins worn by anti-violence advocates; Ksenia Nouril on the photographic archives and 35mm slides; Catherine Opie on photographs of women operating a domestic violence hotline; Sangi Ravichandran on institutional 35mm slides; Elias Rodrigues and Paige Sweet on quotidian newspaper clippings about abuse and support; Drew Sawyer on anonymous vernacular photographs taken by survivors; and Carmen Winant on WIT’s “job puzzle.”
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Content warning: please be advised that some of the imagery contains adult content, including depictions and descriptions of domestic violence.

This program is presented in conjunction with the five-component project, exploring historical and contemporary representations of oppression, liberation and self-expression. Other components included an exhibition (presented April – July, 2022), public interventions in Philadelphia bus shelters, public programming and a short film.

A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

Book Talk: Harlem Nights 1990–2001 by Gerald Cyrus
2022-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Presented on Zoom
PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL BE COMPLETELY VIRTUAL
Join The Print Center for a Book Talk with photographer Gerald Cyrus. In addition to discussing Harlem Nights 1990–2001, Cyrus will speak about his career, the making of this work and more.
Cyrus’ photographs explore the nightclubs, their patrons and the vibrant music scene in the historic neighborhood of Harlem, NY.

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Emerging Collectors Preview
2022-11-30 17:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join The Print Center along with event hosts Andrew Taggart & Andrew Cameron Zahn for a special evening where guests can preview the artwork up for bid, hear about the works from the artists who created them and get insight on art collecting strategies.

Free to attend – RSVP required
Suggested donation of $20

More About our Hosts:
Andrew Taggart is a specialist of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts at Freeman’s Auction House. As a collector himself, he has a fondness for 18th and early 19th-century furniture, objects and portraits.
Andrew Cameron Zahn is a designer, developer, curator and artist. He creates websites and interactive media through Vast Design and Development, and is recognized for his expertise in digital and interactive art as well as user experience design. A member of the Zahn family, Andrew continues the family legacy of art collecting.

Gallery Talks & Opening Reception: 97th ANNUAL Solo Exhibitions
2023-01-19 17:30 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join us as we open three new exhibitions, awarded from the 97th ANNUAL International Competition:
Cheryl Mukherji: Ghorer Bairer Aalo (The Light Outside Home)
María Verónica San Martín: Geology of Memory / Geología de la Memoria
and
Idalia Vasquez-Achury: Mind of Winter
5:30pm – Gallery Talks with the Artists and independent curator Liz K. Sheehan
6 – 7:30pm – Opening Reception

Learn more about the exhibitions here.

Artist Talk: Cheryl Mukherji
2023-02-02 18:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Presented in-person and on Zoom
Join us for an Artist Talk with Cheryl Mukherji as she discusses her process, work and current exhibition, Ghorer Bairer Aalo (The Light Outside Home).

The Print Center’s exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.
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Cheryl Mukherji (b. 1995, India) is a visual artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She has an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College, New York. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Brooklyn Museum; Baxter St. at Camera Club of New York (CCNY), International Center of Photography and the Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, all NY; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul; the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; as well as the Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, Canada; Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India; Format Photo Festival, Derby, UK; and Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK, among others. Mukherji was a finalist in the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. She has had residencies at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Baxter Street at CCNY, where she had her debut solo show, Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl, in 2022. Previously, Mukherji received Brooklyn Museum’s #Your2020Portrait Award; Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Writing Prize; a Firecracker Photography Grant in 2020; a South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund grant; and was a finalist for the 2020 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize.

Poetry Workshop with Ursula Rucker: presented with Heart On Your Sleeve
2023-02-11 15:00 - 17:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Join The Print Center and Heart On Your Sleeve for an intimate poetry writing workshop, led by Ursula Rucker. Space is limited. Elixr coffee and snacks will be provided.
Workshop participants have the choice between a regular admission ticket ($25), or a combo ticket ($55) which includes a discounted HOYS t-shirt.
T-shirts are available for purchase in The Print Center Gallery Store for $35.
Heart on Your Sleeve will donate a portion of the net proceeds to Harriett’s Bookshop (258 E Girard Ave, Philadelphia). Named for historical heroine Harriett Tubman, the store celebrates women authors, artists and activists.
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Do you wear your heart on your sleeve? Wearing your heart on your sleeve is to be vulnerable, to be present, and to show your whole and authentic self.
If this sounds like you… Come gather in the spirit of love… we’ll create poems, share, and listen to stories of self-love, tough love, love lost, brotherly love, and sisterly affection.
What are we going to do? Sit at the table, TOGETHER – listen -to each other – to music, make poetry, and create art that speaks to our mutually LOVING experiences.
Why are we doing it? For ALL OF US TO SHARE… to see and feel ourselves in a good, uplifting, and generous spotlight.. a LOVING one! You know… L.O.V.E?
-Ursula Rucker
Heart On Your Sleeve (HOYS) is a winterlong (November 2022 – April 2023) public art and poetry initiative focused on the themes of care and renewal. This six-month project brings together Philadelphia Poets and Artists to co-create compassionate works that appear on insulated take-out coffee sleeves and in public artworks at Elixr Coffee. The project aims to bring the perspectives of poets and artists to the public in small and meaningful ways this winter through an uplifting poem, an inspiring piece of public art, or a new piece of clothing. Heart On Your Sleeve is organized by Molly Gross & Ryan Strand Greenberg with support by Elixr Coffee and The Poetry Project.
Poets: Sojourner Ahebee, Dilruba Ahmed, Husnaa Haajarah Hashim, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Ursula Rucker, and Eleanor Wilner Artists: Jonai Gibson-Selix, Hester Stinnett, Destiny Palmer. For more information, click here.

Film Screening & Book Signing: Henry Horenstein
2023-02-16 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Speedway 72, 2022
Join The Print Center and photographer Henry Horenstein for a Film Screening and Book Signing! Horenstein will show excerpts from four of his films, followed by Q & A. He will also discuss his newly published Speedway 1972 , followed by a book signing.

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

Performance & Conversation: María Verónica San Martín
2023-03-01 18:00 - 19:30 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
San Martín and her son, 2017. Photo: Nina Davenport
Presented in-person and on Zoom
Join us for a Performance and Conversation with María Verónica San Martín. Her performance will take place amidst her current exhibition, Geology of Memory / Geología de la Memoria, and will incorporate her many artist books on view.

The Print Center’s exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.
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María Verónica San Martín (b. 1981; Chile) is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and educator. She has an MA from The Corcoran School of Art and Design, George Washington University, Washington, DC. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including at BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn; Artists Space; New York Immigrant Artist Biennial; Queens Museum; and Rockefeller Center, all NY; and the Chilean National Archive, Santiago and Museum Meermanno, The Hague, Netherlands. Her work is held in more than 60 collections including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. San Martín was a fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program; a scholar at the Center for Book Arts, New York; an artist-in-residence at Art Omi, Ghent and Interlude, Hudson, both NY; and has been awarded two New York Foundation for the Arts and three Chilean National Grants. Since 2016, San Martín has been performing and talking about her projects “Moving Memorial,” “Dignidad” and “The Javelin Project” in museums, public spaces and cultural centers. She recently performed at the Lincoln Center, New York; had her fifth solo show in Chile at Galeria NAC; and launched “Collective Roadmap,” a project based on the Chilean constitution. She is currently working on a commission for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, while preparing a solo exhibition for Trinity College, CT and group exhibitions that will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup. San Martín teaches at the Center for Book Arts, NY; Penland School of Craft, NC; Miami University, Oxford, OH; and Booklyn Inc, NY, where she is also a board member.

Artist Talk: Idalia Vasquez-Achury
2023-03-23 18:00 - 19:00 | The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, 19103, United States
Presented in-person and on Zoom
Join The Print Center for an Artist Talk with Idalia Vasquez-Achury as she discusses her process, work and current exhibition Mind of Winter.

The Print Center’s exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.
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Idalia Vasquez-Achury (b. Colombia) is a Philadelphia-based photographer and educator. She has a BFA in photography from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI; an MFA in photography from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; and studied graphic design in Bogotá, Colombia. She has exhibited at venues including the Scarab Club Gallery, Detroit and 555 Gallery, Dearborn, both MI; Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT; and Goldilocks Gallery and Woodmere Art Museum, both Philadelphia; as well as Casa SinFin, Bogotá. Her works have been featured in Lenscratch and Don’t Take Pictures, among other publications. Vasquez-Achury has taught at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster; and worked in advertising in Bogotá and Quito, Ecuador.

Artist Talk: Rodrigo Valenzuela
2023-04-11 18:00 - 19:00 | University of Pennsylvania, Meyerson Hall, 210 S 34th Street, Philadelphia, 19104, United States
Held at the University of Pennsylvania, Meyerson Hall, Room B-3
Both in-person and on Zoom

Please join The Print Center and the University of Pennsylvania as artist Rodrigo Valenzuela discusses his work, artistic practice and career. This program is presented in conjunction with Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce, on view at The Print Center April 15 – July 15, 2023. Workforce, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by the Chilean-born artist, is Valenzuela’s debut showing in Philadelphia.
Registration not required for in-person attendance
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