Bringing together Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and Josh MacPhee, their conversation will center print as a democratic force that is portable, accessible, and unapologetically political. From Kennedy’s bold, type-driven calls for justice to MacPhee’s collaborative social movement archives, the conversation challenges the myth of art’s neutrality and individual authorship. Drawing from Black printing traditions, social movements, and grassroots distribution, Kennedy and MacPhee explore how printed matter circulates beyond elite art systems and spaces. Together, prints are positioned not as an artifact, but as action, a tool to agitate, educate, and move people toward change. 

I am negro! - Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. 

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is a letterpress printer and artist renowned for bold typography and socially engaged messages. After discovering letterpress printing in the late 1980s, he left a career as a systems analyst and earned an MFA in graphic design from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and The Economist, and is held by institutions including the Library of Congress, MoMA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Josh MacPhee is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative (Justseeds.org) and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements (InterferenceArchive.org).

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For almost thirty years artist Glenn Ligon and master printer Luther Davis have collaborated on some of Ligon’s largest works including two of his series Come Out (2014-2015) and Debris Field (2018– ). Most recently Ligon produced a body of work titled Blue (for JB); the foundation of these monumental works on paper start with a silkscreened image based off of Ligon’s rubbings on top of one of the paintings from his Stranger series. In order to create the ideal ground or working surface for Ligon, he and Davis developed various iterations until the screened image resonated. 

Glenn Ligon is an artist living and working in New York. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art.

He is best known for his landmark text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the influential writings and speech of 20th-century cultural figures including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Genet, and Richard Pryor. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 2011, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a mid-career retrospective, AMERICA, organized by Scott Rothkopf, that traveled nationally. Important solo exhibitions include Break It Down, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2025); All Over the Place, The Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, England (2024); Post-Noir, Carre d’Art, Nîmes (2022); Call and Response, Camden Arts Centre, London (2014); and Some Changes, The Power Plant Center for Contemporary Art, Toronto (traveled internationally) (2005). Select curatorial projects include Grief and Grievance, New Museum, New York (2021); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2017); and Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Liverpool (2015). Ligon’s work has been shown in major international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2015, 1997), Berlin Biennial (2014), Istanbul Biennial (2019, 2011), and Documenta XI (2002).

Luther Davis has been the Master Printer and Director of the Powerhouse Arts Print Program since 2016. Luther teaches printmaking at Parsons School of Design and The Cooper Union. He was the co-founder of Forth Estate, a fine art publisher focused on producing limited editions with emerging artists, and from 1999-2016 he was the Master Printer and Director of Axelle Editions, a fine art print atelier specializing in screen printing that produced over 300 editions a year with more than 100 artists.

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We provide live-captioning services and ASL interpreters at every conversation over the weekend.

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In conjunction with the exhibition Felipe Baeza: Anima at Print Center New York, participants are invited to create prints inspired by Baeza’s layered imagery and material processes. Participants will explore texture, abstraction, and collage using watercolor monotype and chine collé techniques. Led by artist-educators Megan Duffy, Alejandra Arias Sevilla, and Cecilia Cano-Daly, this open-ended workshop emphasizes experimentation and creative discovery to engage with the visual language of Baeza’s work. Felipe Baeza: Anima is on view through May 23 at Print Center New York. 

This workshop is free with entry, but is limited to 25 participants and spots are first come, first served. No experience is necessary. Recommended for ages 12 and over. All materials provided. 

Megan Duffy is an arts administrator and art educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She currently serves as Project Manager for the NYC Department of Transportation Art Program, managing temporary art installations throughout the five boroughs in partnership with professional artists and community organizations. Previously, Megan was Artist Programs Manager at Print Center New York, overseeing the New Prints juried exhibition series among other initiatives. She has also worked as a museum educator at the Newark Museum of Art. Megan holds a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from Skidmore College, focusing on printmaking and textiles.  

Alejandra Arias Sevilla is a visual artist, collaborator, and printmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Through research-based and intuitive methodologies, her work investigates the semantics and pragmatics of the color blue, as well as translation and shadows. Arias Sevilla earned her BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. In 2021, she was awarded the Undergrowth Educational Print Fund at Mullowney Printing. After completing the apprenticeship, she joined the team, becoming the Lead Printer (2022-2023). In 2024, Arias Sevilla had two solo exhibitions, Borderings Print Center New York, and Translation as Deformation at the Jordan Schnitzer Gallery at Dieu Donné after completing the Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellowship.

Cecilia Cano-Daly is a printmaker based in Queens, NY. She primarily explores material processes, thinking of her creation as a collaboration between herself and the techniques she employs. She embraces the process and experimentation intrinsic to printmaking, often playing with the balance between control and chance. Cecilia completed a studio internship at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in May 2024, and is set to begin apprenticing at Mullowney Printing through the Undergrowth Educational Print Fund in April 2026.