STUDIO PROGRAM EXHIBITIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. THE PRINTSHOP IS APPOINTMENT ONLY.
EXHIBITIONS
Press & Pull: Two Decades at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
September 9 – November 14, 2025
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 6-8PM
The James Gallery
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Curated by Shameekia Shantel Johnson in collaboration with Essye Klempner, Program Director and Jazmine Catasús, Artistic Director of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a program of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
Haig Aivazian, Xenobia Bailey, Chakaia Booker, Robert Blackburn, Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, Camille Billops, Elizabeth Catlett, Ed Clark, Renee Cox, Lizania Cruz, Devraj Dakoji, Raque Ford, Michele Godwin, Maren Hassinger, Baseera Khan, Tsedaye Makonnen, Glendalys Medina, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Dindga McCannon, Otto Neals, Ademola Olugebefola, Stephanie Santana, Krishna Reddy, Shellyne Rodriguez, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Kenny Rivero, Elliott Jamal Robbins, Faith Ringgold, Charles White, and Michael Kelly Williams
Funding for this exhibition has been generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, with additional support from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Dedalus Foundation, Hauser & Wirth Institute and Speedball Art Products. These partners have supported the development of the exhibition, public programming, and the broader efforts to preserve and share the Workshop’s artistic and cultural legacy.
RESIDENCIEs + FELLOWSHIPS
Nirit Takele, She Who Holds The Memory, 2025, acrylic on canvas. 150 × 120 cm. Photo by Yigal Pardo.
Nirit Takele
in partnership with Artis
Nirit Takele is a contemporary figurative painter whose work explores themes of heritage, migration, and identity. She was born in Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel during Operation Solomon in 1991. Takele’s bold, color-saturated paintings depict communities of Ethiopian descent from Israel with sculptural figures and dynamic compositions that merge classical European influences with modernist abstraction.
Ziyi Zhang, Hold on my Last Castle, 2025
2025 Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project SIP) Fellowship
EFA RBPMW
Artists: Carly Mandel, June Canedode Souza, Anna Ting Moller, Zalika Azim, E Jane, Anne Wu, Elle Perez, and Serafina Ariel
This intensive fellowship is designed to introduce artists from multiple disciplines to printmaking. Fellows are artists seeking creative exploration through printmaking, regardless of expertise, to apply their creative knowledge and conceptual goals to the print medium. The fellows are each provided access to a community and professional printmaking workspace, a stipend, three printmaking workshops, and assistance from EFA RBPMW staff.
The Kahn | Mason SIP Fellowship is named in honor of avid printmakers and educators Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, with partial funding provided by the Emily Mason | Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation and the Wolf Kahn Foundation.
Application Deadline: Sun. August 17, 2025 11:59pm EST
ALT Alliance Residency
in partnership with ALT Aliance
Wei-chen Lou
Cherilyn Tan Qiao Lyn
Ziyi Zhang
We are excited to debut a residency for AAPI artists in partnership with ALT Alliance. The residency cohort will focus on healing, sustainability, and cultural memory and will culminate in an exhibition opening September 3rd.
THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS OPERATES TWO MAJOR PROGRAMS
