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WPA’s Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop
During the New Deal era, the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP) engaged over 10,000 artists in communities across the US. In Philadelphia, a Fine Print Workshop was established in the same building where a WPA/FAP Poster Workshop was housed. The Fine Print Workshop quickly distinguished itself for its openness to both technical experimentation…
The Print Center’s Original Location: 219 South 17th Street, Philadelphia
The Print Center has made its home at 1614 Latimer Street since 1917, but our first location was around the corner, in a small office at 219 South 17th Street. An early history of the organization described it this way, “Wall space in such quarters was sufficient only for a make-shift gallery. The print movement…
IMPRINT: a public art project
In 2002, The Print Center organized IMPRINT: a public art project, for which a series of temporary public art projects were commissioned from Dotty Attie, John Coplans, Susan Fenton, Kerry James Marshall, Virgil Marti and James Mills. The project included 46 billboard and bus shelter posters, six collectible inserts in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday magazine,…
The Print Center Edition: Benton Spruance
Benton Spruance (1904 – 1967) was a very significant member of The Print Center’s community. His prints have been included in over 75 exhibitions at The Print Center, including five solo shows. Spruance, who was born in Philadelphia, was a long-term faculty member at Beaver College, Glenside, PA (now Arcadia University), as well as Chairman…
The Print Center Edition: Bill Walton
Bill Walton, Broken Wing, 2010, Etching, 1.5 x 1 inches, Edition of 50
Annual International Competition
The Print Center’s Annual International Competition is one of the oldest competitions of its kind. The first Annual Exhibition of American Etchers was held in 1924 and subsequent competitions in the early years focused on other print processes, including block printing and lithography. The competition is now open to all artists using photography and/or printmaking as critical components…
