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We are honored Amos Kennedy will be in Tucson in February visiting the University of Arizona, School of Art.
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If you aren’t aware of Amos. Amos Kennedy is a letterpress printer using a distinctive voice to create posters, artists’ books, and publications. Through his strong graphics and bold typography, Kennedy 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. Amos quit his corporate job at the age of forty to become, as he calls himself, “a humble negro printer”. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, has taught workshops in over seven countries and is currently spearheading the Detroit Printing Plant*.
One Day Workshops
Saturday February 25, 2017
9 am– 5 pm
Jack Sinclair Letterpress Lab
Free Parking
$ 95.00
Sunday February 26, 2017
9 am– 5 pm
Jack Sinclair Letterpress Lab
Free Parking
$ 95.00
If you would like to attend one of the workshops, please email asap, Karen Zimmermann at [email protected] and confirm as well as send in a deposit to reserve your spot. (Checks should be written to the University of Arizona
and mailed to Karen Zimmermann, School of Art, 1031 N. Olive Street, Tucson, AZ 85721). Any questions, please email Karen.
*Writing attribution Dartmouth College Library
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