The EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop is a 4000 square foot printmaking facility in Manhattan. The space is run by the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and modeled on a similar printmaking workshop run by Robert Blackburn. It features traditional printing, editioning rooms, steel facing services, stone preparation, photo lithography plate production, and risograph printing.
History
Robert Blackburn first established a workshop in 1947 in his loft apartment in Chelsea. The facility and its cooperative structure welcomed a variety of artists during the 1950s and 1960s. It formally incorporated into a not-for-profit organization called "Printmaking Workshop" in 1971, which lasted until 2001. Before his 2003 death, Blackburn encouraged the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts to establish a new organization to provide similar services to artists in New York. The foundation agreed and opened new Printmaking Workshop, named in Blackburn's honor, in September 2005.
References
- ^ Printmaking services and our facilities, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program
- Blackburn, Robert; Cullen, Deborah; Blood, Katherine (2003-02-20). "Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop | Exhibitions". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
- York, Hildreth (1986). "Bob Blackburn and the Printmaking Workshop". Black American Literature Forum. 20 (1/2): 81–95. doi:10.2307/2904553. ISSN 0148-6179. JSTOR 2904553.
- ^ Mission/History, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program