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Proof Testing: The PrintLab Artist Residency at Brandywine Workshop and Archives
Eight interdisciplinary artists pair finished prints with the working materials behind them, showing the PrintLab residency as an incubator for traditional printmaking and emerging technologies alike.
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In Delita Martin's The Little Rootkeeper, a girl with braided hair sits cross-legged on top of a dense tangle of roots, printed in blues against starbursts and abstract shapes. Martin made it as a photolithograph, then added ink by hand.
She is one of eight artists from the 2025 to 2026 PrintLab residency at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, a print studio founded in North Philadelphia in 1972. The Anne Bryan Gallery holds eleven of their new works next to nine printing blocks, so you can look from a block to the print it made. Two prints from 2018 show where two of the artists started on earlier Brandywine residencies.
Come to see how prints get made; with eight artists in one gallery, nobody gets much depth. Entry comes with PAFA admission: $25, or $15 on Fridays from 5 to 8pm. Willie Cole and Didier William also have work in A Nation of Artists, and the partner show runs at Brandywine, 730 S. Broad Street, until October 26.
Look for
Delita Martin, The Little Rootkeeper
Look for the girl with braided hair sitting cross-legged on a dense root system, in blue tones against starbursts, with ink Martin applied by hand.
Albert Chong, Aunt Lou (Copper)
A faint, ghostly face shows through white flowers, green berries, insects and transparent wings, all transferred from photographs onto a sheet of copper.
Kakyoung Lee, Jogging: Dusk & Dawn
A four-panel woodcut of people walking, jogging and biking along a Central Park path, printed in light blue and dark grey.
Didier William, Dife nan zo mwen
Two shadowy figures stand on tall stumps in a dense forest, circled by wavy streams of orange and yellow that read like fire.
The printing blocks
Nine blocks used to make the residency prints are shown alongside the finished works, so you can compare the block with the print.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want depth on one artist: eight artists share eleven new works here.
With kids
Children 12 and under get in free, and ages 13 to 17 pay $5.
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- Proof Testing: The PrintLab Artist Residency at Brandywine Workshop and Archives© Delita Martin
- You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary TapestryPhoto credit: Constance Mensh.
- Botany of NationsCourtesy of Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Native Plants on the Parkway: A Botany of Nations GardenCourtesy of Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsDifference engine, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The Fabric Workshop and MuseumJohn Phelan, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel Universityajay_suresh, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Vox PopuliVox Populi
- The Franklin Instituteajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0