printPHILLY! 2025

printPHILLY! 2025

An annual printfair celebrating the diversity and richness of Philadelphia’s printmaking community. 

Philadelphia, PA – The Philadelphia Print Consortium is pleased to announce the third annual printPHILLY! print fair. Join us on Saturday, April 12, 2025 at Parkway Central Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Showcasing over 40 vendors, including individual artists, print shops, collectives, schools, and non-profit spaces, this one day fair is FREE and open to the public from 10 AM – 4 PM. Visitors can interact with a range of printmakers, print-publishers, print-focused galleries and nonprofits, and will have the opportunity to purchase original prints from a wide variety of artists and shops using both innovative and traditional techniques which are a hallmark of the medium. This event focuses on printmaking as a vital, contemporary art medium, as well as one of historic significance to the city of Philadelphia. 

Special events: 

Guest Lecture: PPC is proud to host guest speaker Lauren Rosenblum, Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center, in a lecture discussion about printmaking. This presentation will take place in the Heim Center on the First Floor at 11am. 

Hands on Printmaking with Mural Arts: Printmaking By The People: Anytime between 12 and 3, join Mural Arts Philadelphia to make your own print on the first floor of Parkway Central Library.

Books on prints and prints in books with the Free Library Art Department: Stop by the Art Department on the 2nd floor between 2 pm and 4 pm to see books and portfolios related to printmaking. 

Participating Studios, Institutions, Presses, Schools and Artists 

American Color Print Society, Arcadia University Printmaking, The Brandywine Workshop and Archive, Brodsky Center at PAFA, Bucks County Community College, BYO Printmaking Collaborative, Common Press at University of Pennsylvania, MICA Printmaking, Moore College of Art and Design, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia Center for the Book, The Print Center, Printadelphia, Second State Press, The Soapbox: Community Print Shop & Zine Library, Space 1026, TermiteTV Video Collective, Tyler Print Guild: Temple University, West Chester University Printmaking, Who Press’d Press, Amanda Zeilinger, Amira Pualwan, Brian Allen, Bryn Michelson-Ziegler, Claire B Marcus, Erin Margaret Murphy, Henry Bermudez, Henry Murphy, Hui-yi Kuo, inner loop press, Josh Dale, Jude Bigboy, Karen Hu, Kate VanVliet, Kristina Bickford, Kyle Murdough, Mary Agnes Williams and Thomas Parker Williams, Michelle Marcuse, Mike Sgier, Nastassia Sharanhovich, Nicole Hehn, Nicole Saltzer, Nor Robinson, Patty Smith, Peri Law, Rachel Avallone, Romy Burkus, Ron Rumford, Shannon Dougherty, Susan Viguers, Tali Burry-Schnepp

The Philadelphia Print Consortium (PPC) is a volunteer-run group of printmakers, educators, curators, and people interested in prints and printmaking who are working together to raise awareness of the rich and expanding Philadelphia print community. Since 2023, PPC has held printPHILLY!, a print fair celebrating the diversity and richness of Philadelphia’s printmaking community. 

The Philadelphia Print Consortium is grateful to its fiscal sponsor The Soapbox: Community Print Shop & Zine Library. Special thanks to the American Color Print Society for sponsoring a purchase prize and to the Free Library of Philadelphia for hosting the event.