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25 x 25, A Portfolio Project
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The First Print Center Publication: Leonard Baskin illustrates Blake’s Auguries of Innocence
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Annual International Competition
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Phil Simkin, Move It or Lose It
ByadminIn 1975, as part of The Print Center’s 60th Anniversary, the Philadelphia artist Phil Simkin (1944 -2013) created a performative spectacle that generated so much attention and controversy that people are still talking about it. For Move It or Lose It, Simkin created a 60-foot moving clothesline on Latimer Street in front of The Print…
