Panel Discussion: 50 years of Philadelphia Women Arts Leaders and Converstations with Stephanie Santana and Nancy Hellebrand

The Print Center is pleased to present three solo exhibitions featuring artists whose interests in image-making go hand-in-hand with their shrewd and responsive uses of artistic materials.

"We are honored to concurrently exhibit three generations of women artists whose work affirms the continued relevance of the feminist phrase, “the personal is political” – in which individual women’s personal experiences implicate their political context, deeming them worthy of social deliberation. The new work by Hellebrand and Santana, and Zelt’s work from the 1970s and 1980s, was selected for presentation in conjunction with (re)FOCUS 2024, a Philadelphia citywide festival showing the movement of women-identified and BIPOC artists from the periphery to the center of the art world in the fifty years since the original FOCUS initiative in 1974. Each artist explores how abstract and representational imagemaking is combined with material exploration of surface and tactility to express women’s concerns of their time.

As an organization, we are grateful for the opportunity to recall the original 1974 FOCUS, for which The Print Center presented the exhibition “Women Printmakers,” juried by Harry Lunn (Director, Graphics International, Washington, DC) and Howardena Pindell (Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art), that showcased the work of 23 artists, including Martie Zelt. Now, as then, we maintain belief in the vitality of printmaking to serve myriad artists’ personal and political voices."

April 19-July 20th

Nancy Hellebrand : EVERYBODYBEAUTIFUL 

Stephanie Santana: Ways of Knowing 

Martie Zelt: Land Strider in the Zemel Family Gallery

Programs (Thursday, 6pm,and on Zoom)

May 2: Conversation with Stephanie Santana

May9: Conversation with Nancy Hellebrand

May 23- Panel Discussion 50 years of Philadelphia Women in Arts Leaders