# Book Discussion | The Story of Printmaking A Global History of Art with Author Holly EJ Black with Rob Swainston

Book Discussion | The Story of Printmaking A Global History of Art with Author Holly EJ Black with Rob Swainston at The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW), Thursday 29 October 2026, 19:00.

- Venue: The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW), West 39th Street 323, New York
- With: Rob Swainston
- Get tickets: https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/events-1/2026/10/25/book-launch-mohammad-omer-khalil-common-ground
- Go to page: https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/events-1/2026/10/28/book-conversation-the-story-of-printmaking-a-global-history-of-art-by-holly-ej-black

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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. It argues that the printed image has not just replicated the world but shaped it.

## Dates

- Thursday 29 October 19:00 — The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW)

Written by a model, sources: [rbpmw-efanyc.org](https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/events-1/2026/10/28/book-conversation-the-story-of-printmaking-a-global-history-of-art-by-holly-ej-black)

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