Brodsky Center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
Philadelphia, PA
The Brodsky Center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia empowers artists to explore, experiment, and extend boundaries by creating new work in collaboration with expert printers and papermakers. Since 1986, the Brodsky Center has operated with an uninterrupted, cohesive mission of offering artists, primarily from marginalized groups based on gender, race, politics, and class, the opportunity to create new work. A powerful and resourceful environment that includes studios supporting all techniques, the Brodsky Center has stimulated the creation to date of nearly seven hundred complex editions with four hundred artists who engage printmaking and papermaking as indispensable mediums for the expression of unique ideas and are either new to print and paper or use them as equal tools along with painting, sculpture, and new media. They include Pacita Abad, Elizabeth Catlett, Zoë Charlton, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Mona Hatoum, Barkley L. Hendricks, Byron Kim, William Kentridge, Pepón Osorio, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Faith Ringgold, Kiki Smith with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Pat Steir with Anne Waldman, Mickalene Thomas, and Didier William, among others.
At the 2025 Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, the Brodsky Center at PAFA is partnering with Brandywine Workshop and Archives, also based in Philadelphia. The Brodsky Center will present recent and past editions by artists Emma Amos, Eleanor Antin, Nancy Azara, Will Barnet, Rick Bartow, Sonia Boyce, Liz Collins, Betsy Damon, Mary Beth Edelson, Lauren Ewing, Howard Finster, Harmony Hammond, Sharon Hayes, Isaac Julien, Joyce Kozloff, Glenn Ligon, Hew Locke, Diane Neumaier, Chris Ofili, Nell Painter, Ben Patterson, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel, Sylvia Sleigh, Joan Snyder, Nancy Spero, May Stevens, Athena Tacha, Kukuli Velarde, June Wayne, Carrie Mae Weems, Martha Wilson, Wilmer Wilson IV, and Layqa Nuna Yawar.
Top image: Artist Kukuli Velarde in residence at the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia, January 2023
Photograph courtesy of the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia, copyright the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.
This image: Kukuli Velarde (American, b. Peru 1962)
Philadelphia Pachamama, 2024
Eleven-color photolithograph in ten runs with hand-stamped elements on Rives BFK paper
38 x 28 inches
Edition of 10. Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.
Photograph courtesy of the artist and the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia, copyright the artist and the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia. Photo by Jade Alderman.