Scope and Content Note
The Printmaking Workshop is an ongoing New York City nonprofit organization and artists' cooperative founded by African-American artist and master printmaker Robert Hamilton Blackburn (1920-2003) in 1948 to provide studio space, equipment, instruction, gallery space, and community to artists in the printmaking and related fields. The collection spans the years 1979-1997, with the bulk concentrated in the period 1987-1997. The material consists of office files, material relating to exhibitions, correspondence, print listings and catalogs, financial records, subject files, publicity material, photographs, receipts, and printed matter.The records are organized into three series: Exibitions and Other Events, General Office File, and Digital File.
The Exhibitions and Other Events series documents exhibits, auctions, and benefits held at the Printmaking Workshop's own gallery and in other venues in the United States and across the world.
The General Office File documents the administration and operations of the organization from the 1970s into the late 1990s.