Brandywine Workshop

Through its various programs in printmaking and arts education, Brandywine Workshop seeks to enhance the role of people of color as both visual artists and audiences in contemporary society. To achieve our mission and vision, our goals include:

• Training artists and art students in fine art printmaking and related arts with an emphasis on new technologies.

• Enhancing the quality and richness of the visual arts through active participation of artists and audiences from culturally diverse backgrounds.

• Enabling artists and students of diverse backgrounds and experience to learn and train in a setting that is collaborative, experimental and practices high standards

• Acquainting audiences locally, nationally and internationally with the excellence of American printmaking as represented by Brandywine Workshop’s diverse and highly proficient print collection.

• Working in collaboration with other culturally diverse and ethnic specific institutions to enhance exhibitions, collections, teaching and mentoring of future generations of artists, curators and art historians.

Brandywine Workshop's Center for the Visual Arts

Located in downtown Philadelphia on South Broad Street's "Avenue of the Arts," Brandywine Workshop operates it's Center for the Visual Arts, which includes the Firehouse Building as well as the Visual Technologies Center.

The Firehouse Building

A mixed-use facility housed in a certified, ca1861 historic landmark. It houses Brandywine Workshop's Henry O. Tanner and Printed Image galleries, gift shop and administrative offices.

• The Henry O. Tanner Gallery

A Professional gallery space used for traveling exhibitions, prints from the collection and young artists.

• The Printed Image Gallery

A museum quality gallery presenting culturally and aesthetically diverse contemporary exhibitions from around the world.

• Gift Shop

A retail outlet with a line of fine art prints, publications and specialty items.

Visual Techonologies Center

The heart of Brandywine Workshop's activities lie inthe Visual Technologies Center, which serves as the actual workshop for Brandywine's artists as well as housing its permanent collection.

• Offset Pressrooms
• Screen Printing Facility
• Intaglio Printing Workstation
• Design and Layout Studio
• Photo-Process Area
• Bindery
• Permanent Collection and Archives

Over 600 original screenprints and lithographs created by visiting artists, and related media, stored in a temperature and humidity controlled space, electronically cataloged and available for purchase.

• Research and Workshop Facilities

(see also Artists-in-Residence and Intership Programs)

• Related Visual Arts Groups
  • Philagrafika (formerly Philadelphia Print Collaborative)
  • Center for Book Arts
  • Latin American Guild for the Arts

To learn more about our history please click here.