Name: Learning to be a Printmaker, a Philadelphia Tradition: A Lecture by Anthony Rosati
Start: 2025-02-07T17:30:00-05:00
Location: 128 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19102

Learning to be a Printmaker, a Philadelphia Tradition: A Lecture by Anthony Rosati

Join us for an enlightening lecture on printmaking by print scholar and PAFA Printmaking Professor Anthony (Tony) Rosati organized by the Brodsky Center at PAFA and funded through a generous grant from the International Fine Print Dealers Association Foundation (IFPDA).
FREE and OPEN to the Public
Registration Recommended
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Rosati presents Learning to be a Printmaker, a Philadelphia Tradition, a lecture on the legacy of how printmaking has been taught through the pedagogy applied in the Print Study Seminar offered to students at two of the most influential Philadelphia art schools, the University of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Instituted by PAFA alum, lithographer Benton M. Spruance (1904–1967) at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (later know as University of the Arts) in the late 1930s, the Seminar was continued by printmakers Jerome E. Kaplan (1920–1997) and Lois M. Johnson (1942–2018), and, to this day, by Rosati at PAFA.
This lecture presentation will coincide with PAFA’s Open Studio Night. On Friday, February 7, 5–8PM, at PAFA Hamilton Building, located at 128 N. Broad Street, in Philadelphia, all enrolled students will also open their studios to the public, free of charge. Audiences will be able to meet the students and view their work in their studios. Additionally, the PAFA’s Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan Printmaking Studio on the 6th floor will be open for viewing demonstrations of printmaking techniques, along the Brodsky Center at PAFA’s Viewing Room where selections from the collection will be featured.
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Featured Image: PAFA Printmaking Professor Anthony (Tony) Rosati, circa 1980, in his role as assistant curator at the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of prints, drawings, and rare books at Alverthorpe Gallery in Jenkintown, PA.