Curator Position Established
Jacqueline van Rhyn was appointed as the organization’s first curator, with the support of The William Penn Foundation.
Jacqueline van Rhyn was appointed as the organization’s first curator, with the support of The William Penn Foundation.
The Picture that Remains, 2014 Photographs by Will Brown and Poems by Thomas Devaney with an introduction by Vincent Katz Hardcover, 8 1/2″ x 11″, 64 pages, 38 quadtone images [hr] The Picture that Remains reveals the power of collaboration. Together photographer Will Brown and poet Thomas Devaney created a book that accentuates the beauty and…
The project was funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Publication of Demetrius Oliver: Canicular was supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the National Endowment for the Arts. Exhibition Canicular was an innovative exhibition of newly commissioned works by Demetrius Oliver, which completely transformed The Print Center’s spaces and organizational functions. Oliver…
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…
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…
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (1882 – 1977), the renowned conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, was an early patron of The Print Center. In this letter from 1916, he apologies to Judge Jasper Brinton, one of the founders of the organization, for his delay remitting $38 for a group of acquired etchings. From its founding, The Print…
The Brandywine Workshop was founded in 1972 by Philadelphia artist Allan Edmunds, in a space that was originally a Prints in Progress workshop. Since that time, the Brandywine Workshop has become an internationally recognized center for printmaking, in particular for its dedication to offset lithography. The Brandywine Workshop has worked with dozens of significant Philadelphia…