The Brodsky Center at PAFA empowers artists to explore and extend boundaries by creating new work in collaboration with printers and papermakers. It advances the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’s reach locally and internationally by educating students, promoting the singular work of influential artists, and inviting audiences to appreciate the relevance of paper and print in contemporary culture.
The Brodsky Center was established in 1986 at Rutgers University by founding director, Judith K. Brodsky, whose vision has centered around sustaining women artists and artists of color. It joined PAFA in 2018. A resourceful environment that includes hand papermaking and printmaking studios has stimulated the creation of 660 editions with 365 artists, of whom 37% are non-white of Indigenous, African, Asian and Latinx descent, and 60% are female. The Brodsky Center collaborates with artists who engage printmaking and papermaking as indispensable tools along with painting, sculpture, and new media.
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Artwork
Art Heaven, 2006
Emma Amos (American, 1937–2020)
Digital print with fabric appliqué
on Arches Infinity Textured paper
26 x 20 inches
Edition of 100
$1200
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
1930s to 1960s, 2007
Sonia Boyce (British, b. 1962)
One-color soft ground, hard ground etching,
and spit bite aquatint on Magnani Pescia paper
30 x 20 inches
Edition of 70
from The Rivington Place Portfolio
$1000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Weak as I am, 2007
Sonia Boyce(British, b. 1962)
Overbeaten abaca and cotton on translucent overbeaten abaca
Approx. 28" x 22"
Edition of 20
$1200
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.
PURCHASE
Sunbeam Male: Ceremonial, 2004
Willie Cole (American, b. 1955)
Digital print on Epson 9600 using Ultra Chrome Archival inks
61" x 44"
Edition of 12
$6500
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.
PURCHASE
Por la mesa de mi abuelita, 2007
Willie Cole (American, b. 1955)
Pigmented cotton linter cut by water stream, with embossing and yarn.
Approx. 40" x 40" each
Edition of 10
One Part: $6000 (unframed)
Two Parts: $18,000 (unframed)
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.
PURCHASE
Por la mesa de mi abuelita, 2007
Willie Cole (American, b. 1955)
Pigmented cotton linter cut by water stream, with embossing and yarn.
Approx. 40" x 40" each
Edition of 10
One Part: $6000 (unframed)
Two Parts: $18,000 (unframed)
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.
PURCHASE
Burning Bush, 2002
Willie Cole (American, b. 1955)
Five-color plate lithograph on Arches 88 paper
21 ¼" x 13 ½"
Edition of 60
$750
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.
PURCHASE
Fix, 2006-2008
Trenton Doyle Hancock (American, b. 1974)
Portfolio of 20 prints, including title and colophon, utilizing combinations of etching, lithography, and silkscreen, with chine collé on Sekishu paper on Somerset Velvet White paper
14" x 14" each
Edition of 30
$9000 (not sold individually)
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Fix, 2006-2008
Trenton Doyle Hancock (American, b. 1974)
Portfolio of 20 prints, including title and colophon, utilizing combinations of etching, lithography, and silkscreen, with chine collé on Sekishu paper on Somerset Velvet White paper
14" x 14" each
Edition of 30
$9000 (not sold individually)
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Mango Mango, 2021
Sarah McEneaney (American, b. 1955)
Pigmented and cast handmade paper with cotton pulp painting
Approx. 21 ½" x 26" x 4 ½"
Edition of 10 unique variants
$6000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
The wall-sculpture Mango Mango by Sarah McEneaney, created in collaboration with papermaker Nicole Donnelly, is a handmade paper cast from a matrix the artist sculpted of her pet Mango. Each unique edition cast is made with individual cotton pulp paintings in varying pigment compositions. Brilliant hues inspired by the colors of the fruit transform the detailed 1:1 scale rendition into a radiating figure, suspended and yet seemingly alert. It continues in a series of the artist’s pets in which her intimate, imaginative, narrative painting process grows three-dimensional. A 1979 PAFA graduate, McEneaney lives in Philadelphia. A recipient of Pew Fellowship in the Arts and Joan Mitchell Foundation grants, she has exhibited extensively, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; and PAFA. Her work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, among others.
Iconic Dexter, 2008
Barkley L. Hendricks (American 1945–2017)
Archival Pigment Inkjet Print overprinted with Metallic Gold UV cured silkscreen ink on Sunset Cotton Etching paper
60" x 42"
Edition of 20
$10,000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
After the Dance, 2006
Chris Ofili (British, b. 1968)
Five-color silkscreen on Somerset Velvet White paper
30" x 20"
Final impression PP 3/3, edition of 70, from The Rivington Place Portfolio
$2,900
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Somebody Stole My Broken Heart, 2004
Faith Ringgold (American, b. 1930)
Five-color lithograph on Arches Cover White paper
22 x 30 inches
Final impressions WP, WP, and WP, edition of 100
$3000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Untitled, 2007
Joan Semmel (American, b. 1938)
Digital print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet paper
12" x 12" each
Edition of 60, from Femfolio, a portfolio of twenty prints by twenty artists
$800
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Light Trail, 2012
Kiki Smith (American, b. 1954) and John Coletti (American)
Portfolio of 12 prints by Kiki Smith in handmade paper with hand screened paper pulp, polymer intaglio, chine collé, and gold leaf, with a silkscreened poem by John Coletti
11" x 8 ½" each
Edition of 11
$12000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Light Trail, 2012
Kiki Smith (American, b. 1954) and John Coletti (American)
Portfolio of 12 prints by Kiki Smith in handmade paper with hand screened paper pulp, polymer intaglio, chine collé, and gold leaf, with a silkscreened poem by John Coletti
11" x 8 ½" each
Edition of 11
$12000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Large Flower Field, 2011
Joan Snyder (American, b. 1940)
Handmade paper pulp painting with inclusion of natural matter, mounted on board
27" x 35 ½" x 1 ½"
Final impression, unique variant from an edition of 16 paintings
$5000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Angry Women, 2007
Joan Snyder (American, b. 1940)
Hand lithograph, digital print, and hand coloring on Hahnemühle German Etching paper
Edition of 60, from Femfolio, 2007, a portfolio of twenty prints by twenty artists
$700
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Serene/Cries , 2005
Joan Snyder (American, b. 1940)
Digital print with hand lithography
36" x 40"
Final impressions of unique working proofs
$5000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Genesis, 2021
Liz Collins (American, b. 1968)
Handmade cotton paper with embedded rayon yarns and pigmented cotton pulp
Approximately 38 ½ x 28 inches overall
Edition of 9
$3,000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Broken Skies 1 (Inferno), 2019
Didier William (Haitian-American, b. 1983)
Aquatint and photogravure on Somerset Radiant White Velvet paper
26 ¾" x 20 ½"
Edition of 10
$6000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Broken Skies 2 (Fertile), 2019
Didier William (Haitian-American, b. 1983)
Photogravure on Somerset soft white velvet paper
28 ¼ x 33 inches
Edition of 10
$6,000
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Metamorphosis, 2000
Melanie Yazzie (American, Navajo, b. 1966)
Pulp painting in pigmented overbeaten abaca and linen with lithograph on translucent abaca
Approx. 26 ½" x 20"
Edition of 37 unique variants
$4300
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia
PURCHASE
Faith Ringgold signing Somebody Stole My Broken Heart, 2004