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A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures

The Print Center

Carmen Winant, Billboard from the series ZYX-SOB-ABC, 2019, installed for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Canada.

Exterior view of The Print Center in Philadelphia featuring the site-specific window installation I See You Not Seeing Me (2020) by Shawn Theodore. Photo courtesy of The Print Center.

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Grant Year 2020

Grant Amount $294,228

Status Completed

Updated May 30, 2023

A solo exhibition of photo-based work by Carmen Winant will reflect on historic and contemporary visual representations of women’s oppression, liberation, and self-expression. Winant will draw from the archive of Women in Transition—which began as a feminist collective in 1971 and today serves women navigating issues like divorce, domestic violence, and substance abuse—to translate photos and ephemera into gallery installations, prints displayed in Philadelphia bus shelters, and an artist book that together shed light on the often invisible experiences of women. The project will examine the power of photography and printmaking to represent how women are viewed by themselves and others through portrayals of women before, during, and after incidences of abuse. Accompanying programming will include an artist lecture, a poetry reading, and a self-defense workshop.

The total grant amount represents project funding plus an additional 20% in unrestricted general operating support.

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A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures Exhibition & Programs

Apr 13–Jul 16, 2022
The Print Center 1614 Latimer Street Philadelphia, PA 19103

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The Print Center

One of the first venues in the United States dedicated to the appreciation of limited edition prints, the Print Center has expanded its purview to include photography and ephemera. It was one of the core venues of Philagrafika's The Graphic Unconscious—a 2010 citywide festival of contemporary art in print. The Print Center has also curated projects in the public realm far beyond its walls, though most of its exhibitions are presented in its townhouse in Center City. Past exhibitions have featured the work of Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Dox Thrash, Jasper Johns, Ansel Adams, Art Spiegelman, and more recently Kara Walker, Jerry Uelsmann, John Coplans, Kerry James Marshall, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Ann Hamilton, Vera Lutter, Abelardo Morell, and Doug and Mike Starn.

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