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Meet Letterpress Printer Amos Kennedy!

February 23, 2017 to February 26, 2017

Come meet Amos Kennedy! Kennedy is a letterpress printer who creates passionate and controversial posters, artists’ books, and publications. He pushes issues of race, freedom, and equality, often incorporating proverbs and tales of the Kuba and Yoruba people of Africa, as well as the work of African-American poets such as Paul Laurence Dunbar. Kennedy quit his corporate job at the age of 40 to become, as he calls himself, “a humble negro printer.” He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, has taught workshops all over the world, and is currently spearheading the Detroit Printing Plant. He will be meeting with students in classes and has open events listed below; we would love to have you join us.

Thursday, February 23
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Arbol del Vida Honors Residence Hall
Meet & Print Demonstrations
Snacks and printing demonstrations

6:00-8:00 p.m.
School of Art Jack Sinclair Letterpress Lab | 1035 Mabel Street
Tucson AIGA: An Evening with Letterpress Printer Amos Kennedy
Informal evening of food, conversation, and printing demonstrations.
Free for students, $10 for AIGA members and $15 for non-members.

Friday, February 24
4:00-6:30 p.m.
Poetry Center | 2508 E. Helen Street
Amos Kennedy Print Sale and Screening of Documentary “Be Bold and Proceed”
Join us for a print sale of Amos Paul Kennedy’s wonderful letterpress prints from 4:00-5:00 p.m. at the Poetry Center. Stay for a screening of Proceed and Be Bold!, the documentary on Kennedy’s life and work, screening from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in the Dorothy Rubel Room.

Saturday and Sunday, February 25 and 26
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Workshops
School of Art Jack Sinclair Letterpress Lab | 1035 Mabel Street
By pre-reservation. For information, please email Karen Zimmermann at kzim@email.arizona.edu.

Co-Sponsors: Africana Studies, College of Humanities, Poetry Center; AIGA Tucson; Betts Printing; Student Affairs; and the School of Art, College of Fine Arts.

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