Anti-Racist Print & Printmaking Resources

Anti-Racist Print & Printmaking Resources: an incomplete list of print and printmaking resources for fighting racism and supporting justice and equality

Resources include but are not limited to Black owned and/or operated shops; print fundraisers; printers offering to print materials at cost or free; print exchanges; lectures; books, essays and texts; historical archives, DIY videos, etc.

This document is open / editable by all.

Black Lives Matter.

Evan Laudenslager & Ksenia Nouril

printresourcelist@gmail.com

https://bit.ly/antiracistprint

LISTS:

PHL:

  • Fireball Printing, tayyp@otenet.gr (: Providing free or at-cost printing for BLM-related fundraisers and protests, as well as anti-racist and anti-fascist fundraisers and events. To inquire, email info@fireballprinting.com.

  • Philly Artist Solidarity, @phillyartistsolidarity

  • Charity Art Auction, @charityartauction

  • The Soapbox: Community Print Shop & Zine Library, https://www.phillysoapbox.org, @phillysoapbox -- currently developing a structure to print (letterpress/screenprint) protest materials
  • Philadelphia Print Works: @philaprint: a social justice heritage brand, powered by Philadelphia Print Workshop @philaprintworkshop

  • Slought Foundation, Our Work is Not Done: Resources for the struggle against anti-Black racism and subjugation in all its forms. To access the project “Our Work is Not Done,” including resources from our archive, please visit: https://slought.org/resources/our_work_is_not_done

ELSEWHERE:

  • Kristen Flaherty, kristenflaherty.com, @kristenflaherty: NY artist-driven print fundraiser for protestors and #blm, donations matched 3:1

  • The Association of Print Scholars gave a collaboration grant to Jennifer Chuong and Kailani Polzak for a 2-day workshop in Fall 2020, Imprinting Race, which will “examine the role of engraving and intaglio printmaking in visualizing and circulating material images of bodies” in the long eighteenth century.

  • Prints for Protest, https://www.printsforprotest.org: profits from print sales donated to organizations selected by the artists.
  • Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer: A community-based art center managed by the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis (@tanawoodland on Instagram) has free downloadable BLM posters HERE. These are prints of work created by students in their program.

  • Center for Books Arts, New York: Fridays from 12-4pm (beginning, Friday, June 12th - ongoing), contactless pick-up for FREE posters printed at the Center for your next march, vigil, or action; located at 28 W 27th Street, 3rd Fl.; ring the buzzer to enter the building and the posters will be available for you on a table in the foyer. Please arrive prepared with gloves and a face mask and limit your takeaway to 3 posters/person. If you have questions, please email studio@centerforbookarts.org 

  • Printed Matter, New York: signed prints by Laylah Ali, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Cauleen Smith, Caitlin Keogh, Matt Connors, and Eileen Quinlan, ranging from $100 to $1,800; 100% raised will be donated equally between Black Lives Matter, National Lawyers Guild, and Mutual Aid NYC, Catalog 
  • Black Box Press, Delita Martin, Texas: Art is Activism fundraiser, https://blackboxpressstudio.com/art-as-activism-fund
  • Pittsburgh, PA - Screen Printed protest posters and face coverings. All proceeds donated to local organizations: Bukit Bail Fund, SisTers PGH, and Steel Smiling PGH. Multiple pickup spots around the city with donations on-site. Printed by @publicprinthouse with design by @danielgurwin - Additional artwork provided by Steve Powers and Bobby Hundreds, https://www.instagram.com/danielgurwin/
  • Lucky Risograph, NY - Free printing for organizers. “We will continue to offer free printing services for activists and movement organizers and have teamed up with print shops across North America to pool our resources and streamline the production process so that we can better serve those requesting printed matter. Follow the link above or DM us for a direct link to the print submission form!” https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgw2nkBCm9/
  • Kayrock Screenprinting, NY - “We are also donating printing services for local groups who need shirts, patches, and protest signs. We are working with our suppliers to try to source donated printing materials to make our contributions go farther, so if you have a project in mind please dm or email us.⁠” https://www.instagram.com/kayrockscreenprinting/
  • Open source reading list from Duke University Press: https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/freely-available-blacklivesmatter-resources-for-activists/
  • Text: “Block prints by African American women artists and friends: Margaret Taylor Burroughs and Elizabeth Catlett”, from the National Museum of American History
  • Sun Night Editions Oakland, CA (Black owned) website: sunnighteditions.com.           Instagram: @sunnight.ed Printing protest posters and donating portions of proceeds for published prints to local BLM organizations
  • Colpa Press, San Francisco, CA website: https://www.colpapress.com. Instagram: @colpapress. Offering free riso printing social justice movement organizers.
  • The Print Shop LA, Los Angeles, CA Website: https://www.theprintshopla.com/ Instagram: @theprintshopla Free Risograph protest printing for artists and organizations against racism, police brutality and transphobia - all creators welcome, BIPOC creators & collectives to the front of the print queue.
  • Bassline Graphics/Gato Nero Press, Chicago, IL: basslinegraphics@gmail.com
    Worker-owned Union print shop offering donations to social justice organizations. Full-color digital printing, Offset Lithography, design and publishing services. Printing for social justice since 2003.
  • Dirty Bourbon Printing, Baltimore MD: providing free screen printing (apparel or poster) for BLM organizations, including free supplies and graphic design services. Also providing POC artists an outlet to get their art & voices heard for free. Receiving donations to keep supplies coming in, as well as selling ecommerce merch to keep funding - https://www.facebook.com/DirtyBourbon/
  • Video from WHYY/KQED: Five Steps to Make Your Own Political Art (geared toward students, grades 6-12 but great for all)
  • Video from WHYY/KQED: Printmaking for a Social Movement (geared toward students, grades 6-12 but great for all)
  • Radical Intersectional Printmakers Guild, @riprintguild and riprintguild@gmail.com (see Past Programs for a recording of their first meeting on July 25, 2020)
  • FREE 12-page section from 8Ball Community’s Guide to Abolition thanks to BRICK 09. Download it now here! It is formatted to be printed out at home and made into a DIY zine,
    intended to be cut out, photocopied, and shared as widely as possible.

HISTORICAL RESOURCES:

  • Black Self-Publishing, American Antiquarian Society: “An ongoing collaborative research project. It is based on a working list of books that are known to have been or may have been self-published by people of African descent who resided in North America and either were born before 1851 or first published before 1877.” https://www.americanantiquarian.org/blackpublishing/

UPCOMING PROGRAMS / EVENTS:

  • August 27, Leslie Diuguid of Du-Good Press
  • October (date TBD), Jennifer Mack-Watkins
  • November 12, Delita Martin of Black Box Press
  • December (date TBD), Angela Pilgrim
  • January (date TBD), LaToya Hobbs
  • February or March (date TBD), Tanekeya Word

PAST PROGRAMS / EVENTS:

  • The Print Cast, new episode: “Printmakers Against Racism w/ Desiree Aspiras,” available free here. (see above related entries for Printmakers Against Racism)
  • June 12, 2020, 2:00-4:00pm ET, Philadelphia: socially distant poster distribution by Channel Graphics, http://channelgraphicsprintshop.com, @channelgraphics in front of William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19107

  • June 13, 2020, 11:00 AM ET, online: free two-hour virtual workshop on printing for political action led by Beth Sheehan and Center for Books Arts, New York. Register here.

  • June 13, 2020, 1:00 PM ET, online: panel discussion “FOR/FOUR # 5: The Printmakers,” a weekly conversation series hosted by Niama Safia Sandy providing a platform for women shaping the contemporary arts and culture space. This week’s speakers: printmakers Latoya Hobbs, Jennifer Mack and Tanekeya Word. WATCH THE RECORDING HERE.

  • July 25-31, 2020, online, Printmakers Against Racism: global virtual art sale to raise money in support of the fight against systemic racism. www.printmakersagainstracism.com or instagram @printmakingasresistance
  • July 30, 2020, 7:00-9:00 PM EDT, online, Artist-Publishers, Care, and Social Action: talks by Beatrix Pang (Zine Coop, Small Tune Press) and Paul Soulellis (Queer.Archive.Work) introduced by Rachel Valinsky and Kay Higgins. REGISTER HERE
  • August 1, 2020, 2-5pm, Hope After 20 & Philly Reparations Black LGBTQIA Southwest Philly Art Stroll, Baltimore Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets, MORE INFO HERE, @hopeafter20, hopeafter20@gmail.com

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