Press & Pull: A Legacy of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

Survey of the origins, collaborations and technical innovations of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, founded in 1947 during racial segregation. 38 prints made at the Workshop with archival ephemera and video, plus 45 additional prints tracing Chicago printmaking, the South Side Community Art Center, the Black Arts Movement and communal print shops. Includes photographs and video excerpts from The Only Thing That Lasts oral history film with robin holder, Dindga McCannon, Eleanor Magid, Nitza Tuiño and Richard Powell. Companion exhibition Ink As Witness: Chicago Printmaking Collectives, Alternative Media, & Social Justice at UIC Chicago Social Justice Gallery. Work by Ron Adams, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Kerry James Marshall, Dindga McCannon, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Ed Clark and others. Free and open to all.