printPHILLY! Fair

The Philadelphia Print Consortium is pleased to announce the inaugural printPHILLY! print fair, which will be held Saturday March 4, 2023, at the University of the Arts, Solmssen Court, 320 S. Broad Street, on Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts. This is a one-day fair, FREE and open to the public from 10am – 3pm.

Representing over 50 individual artists, print shops, collectives, and non-profit spaces that focus on printmaking as a vital, contemporary art medium, as well as one of historic significance to the city of Philadelphia, visitors can interact with a range of printmakers, print-publishers, and print-focused galleries and nonprofits with the opportunity to purchase original prints from a wide variety of artists and shops using both innovative and traditional techniques which are a hallmark of the medium.

Guest Presentation, 1pm — Laurel Garber, The Park Family Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will share  her fascinating research and discoveries about the prints of Mary Cassatt in connection with the upcoming exhibition at the PMA.

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Artists & vendors

Jill Adler; Francine Affourtit; American Color Print Society; Arcadia University Printmaking; ART MORA GALLERY; Athena Astraea; Lindsey Benitz; Kristina Bickford; Tanya Brassie; Brodsky Center at PAFA; Kailey Brown; BYO Print; Leann Carlson; Jessie Crowell; Sam de Poto; Tempest Diamond; Shannon Dougherty; Dox Thrash House; Lauren Doyle; Katheryne Flake; Fleisher Art Memorial; Rebecca Gilbert; Nicole Hehn; Başak Kılıçbeyli; Evgenia Kim; Jackie Kirby; Claire B. Marcus; Maisie O’Brien; Salvatore Marrone; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Printmaking; Petrichor Press; Philadelphia Center for the Book; Ryan Pic; Maria G. Pisano; Lindsey Potoff; The Print Center; Printmakers Open Forum; Billie Raposa; Second State Press; Nicole Saltzer; Marta Sanchez; Mike Sgier; Nastassia Sharanhovich; Patricia M. Smith; The Soapbox: Community Print Shop & Zine Library; Space 1026; Oliver Stern; Katie Tackman; Tyler Printmaking; University of the Arts, Printmaking & Book Arts; Stephanie Van Riet; Who Press’d Press; Thomas Parker Williams; Krista Yocius; Wendee Yudis; Amanda Zeilinger.

The Philadelphia Print Consortium is grateful to its fiscal sponsor The Soapbox: Community Print Shop & Zine Library. Special thanks to the Free Library of Philadelphia Print and Picture Collection for administrative support and to the University of the Arts for hosting the event.

For questions, please contact: phillyprintconsortium@gmail.com.