{"title": "Book Discussion | The Story of Printmaking A Global History of Art with Author Holly EJ Black with Rob Swainston", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW)", "address": "West 39th Street 323, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/events-1/2026/10/25/book-launch-mohammad-omer-khalil-common-ground", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "A book discussion at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in Manhattan. Author Holly EJ Black talks with educator and printmaker Rob Swainston about her new book, The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art (Yale UP, 2026). The book tells how prints are made, from woodblock to etching, and traces printmaking's histories from ancient East Asia through Renaissance Europe, revolutionary Mexico, and post-Apartheid South Africa. 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The event is free and includes Museum admission, but registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/whitney-descriptions-roy-lichtenstein-and-printmaking-worksh-75757/", "official_url": "https://whitney.org/events/whitney-descriptions-lichtenstein", "image": ""}, {"title": "Let’s Make an Anthology with BlackMass Publishing", "start": "2026-11-02T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture", "address": "Malcolm X Boulevard 505, 10037 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-make-an-anthology-with-blackmass-publishing-tickets-1998262942252", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage", "diy/zines"], "description": "A hands-on zine publishing workshop in which participants craft a collective zine and produce their own knowledge, culminating in a limited edition collective anthology printed for pickup at the Schomburg Center after the program. 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Participants meet in the Hearst Artspace on Floor 3.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/whitney-signs-roy-lichtenstein-and-screenprinting-workshop-75753/", "official_url": "https://whitney.org/events/whitney-signs-lichtenstein", "image": ""}, {"title": "Printing with Gelli Plates", "start": "2026-11-01T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Voelker Orth Museum", "address": "38th Avenue 149-19, 11354 Flushing", "price": "$12/ $10 for members", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/printmaking", "nature"], "description": "A hands-on workshop where participants make colorful nature-based Gelli prints using a variety of monoprint techniques, including stenciling. The fast-moving medium is full of surprises, and the prints can be used for wall art, artists' books, cards, collages and scrapbooking. Instructor Helaine Soller leads the session at The Voelker Orth Museum. Registration is $12, or $10 for members.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/printing-with-gelli-plates-56989/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6f272583edf3219fbdf58ed43a8771e25b41a94e9aad50e22f863245fe6d316-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Print Center New York x Lower East Side Printshop: Copper Etching Intensive", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T17:00:00-04:00", "place": "Print Center New York", "address": "West 24th Street 535, 10011 New York", "price": "$100", "price_from": "100.00", "price_to": "100.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.printcenternewyork.org/public-programs/lesp-copper-etching-intensive", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/printmaking/etching"], "description": "Print Center New York x Lower East Side Printshop: Copper Etching Intensive is an all-day hands-on workshop introducing copper plate etching and printing methods, intended for those with some printmaking experience. It is led by Ian Ruppenthal, Assistant Printer & Studio Manager at Lower East Side Printshop, and presented with Print Center New York, which subsidizes the session. Participants are encouraged to bring a sketch or drawing to make prints with; all materials are provided, registration is required, and the workshop takes place at Lower East Side Printshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/print-center-new-york-x-lower-east-side-printshop-copper-etc-55010/", "official_url": "https://www.printcenternewyork.org/public-programs/lesp-copper-etching-intensive", "image": ""}, {"title": "EXHIBITION | Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco", "start": "2026-09-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts", "address": "West 39th Street 323, New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "'Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco' is an exhibition at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts' Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, showing prints exchanged by the artists, photographs, and ephemera from the early years of the Asilah Cultural Moussem's Engraver's Atelier. The Moussem was an annual international arts festival founded in 1978 in Asilah by artist Mohamed Melehi and diplomat Mohamed Benaïssa, rooted in the Casablanca School and centered on Moroccan heritage, local materials, and communal labor. Melehi invited Robert Blackburn to establish the Engraver's Atelier, bringing the cooperative model of his New York workshop to Asilah, with Sudanese master printmaker Mohammad Omer Khalil directing it from 1979 to 2018. Curated by Imani Congdon with the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and titled after one of Blackburn's woodcuts, the exhibition celebrates the friendships and access to printmaking that developed there, showing collective culture as an act of civic recovery and democratic participation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/exhibition-asilah-oui-robert-blackburn-in-morocco-56554/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dafd7dff20a9961d86d43a0977b664c3659179e3c71d480086cddf87b1b52aaa-2000.webp"}]}