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The Print Center Edition: Michael Miller

Byadmin March 12, 1974July 30, 2026

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The Print Center Edition: 65th Anniversary marked with The Philadelphia Portfolio
Byadmin March 12, 1981July 30, 2026

Published in partnership with the City of Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Portfolio was created in 1981 to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the organization. An edition of 100, it includes works by Edna Andrade, John Dowell, Elizabeth Osborne and Peter Paone. The portfolios were given as diplomatic gifts by the City of Philadelphia. Edna Andrade, Celebrate the…

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Elizabeth Spungen: Our Tenth Director
Byadmin March 5, 2006

Appointed in 2006, Elizabeth (Liz) Spungen’s tenure at The Print Center has been marked by programmatic and administrative accomplishments. She has developed numerous major individual and institutional gifts, among them the largest gift ever received by The Print Center naming the Jensen Bryan Curatorial Chair, as well as awards from The Andy Warhol Foundation for…

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Ansel Adams Retrospective – First Major Photography Exhibition
Byadmin January 1, 1972July 30, 2026

Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984), the great master of landscape photography, exhibited at The Print Center in 1972. Planned to coincide with the artist’s seventieth birthday, Adams’ exhibition included 120 photographs and was the largest retrospective of his work to date. While photography had been included in shows at The Print Center as early as…

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Taken with Time: a camera obscura project
Byadmin January 1, 2006

For the exhibition Taken with Time: a camera obscura project, 2006, Ann Hamilton, Vera Lutter and Abelardo Morell were invited to Philadelphia to create new works using camera obscuras. (The camera obscura is a photographic device that captures an optical phenomenon in which light entering a darkened space through a small hole produces an image…

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Stanley William Hayter and the Artist’s Workshop
Byadmin January 1, 1945

In 1945 The Print Center sent out a letter announcing a new initiative: The Artist’s Workshop. “This is not to be class or school,” the letter reads, “but to be for artists who are interested in technical research in graphic materials.” Over the next seven years, the British artist Stanley William Hayter (1901 – 1988)…

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Crossing Over/Changing Places
Byadmin November 5, 1992

Crossing Over/Changing Places was a seven year project of commissions and exhibitions of prints produced by the Lower East Side Print Shop, Pyramid Atlantic, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper (now known as the Brodsky Center), C. R. Ettinger Studio and The Print Center. The exhibition traveled throughout the US and Europe from 1992 – 1995.

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