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Course | Intro to Letterpress: Printing Phillis Wheatley | In-Person
May
10
In-Person, Courses, Paid, Public, Letterpress, Book Arts, Phillis Wheatley, People's Friend

Course | Intro to Letterpress: Printing Phillis Wheatley | In-Person

This four-session class will cover the foundations of letterpress, from setting metal type to pulling prints. Learn about the history of printing through exploring an extraordinary publication: Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.  

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Course | Printing America’s Founding Documents | In-Person
Jun
26
Public, Paid, Courses, Printing Press, People's Friend, In-Person, Americana

Course | Printing America’s Founding Documents | In-Person

In this hands-on printing workshop, you will use a 19th century iron handpress to create your own, personal copies of U.S. founding documents–such as Common Sense and the Federalist Papers. The workshop will be accompanied by a discussion of how print culture has served as a tool of change and given voice to the people, with examples from the Rosenbach collection.

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[SEATS AVAILABLE] The Rosenbach Presents | Gender, Sexuality, & the Harlem Renaissance: A Hands-on Collection Tour & Conversation | In-Person
Nov
6
Harlem Renaissance, GALAEI, LGBTQ, People's Friend, Public, In-Person, The Rosenbach Presents

[SEATS AVAILABLE] The Rosenbach Presents | Gender, Sexuality, & the Harlem Renaissance: A Hands-on Collection Tour & Conversation | In-Person

Join the Rosenbach Museum & Library and GALAEI for a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem, New York that witnessed an explosion of achievement by Black artists working in many genres.   

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Course | Constitutionalism in the Black Freedom Tradition with Joshua Kopin | Virtual
Oct
22
Courses, Paid, Virtual, Public, People's Friend

Course | Constitutionalism in the Black Freedom Tradition with Joshua Kopin | Virtual

This course examines how African American artists, activists, and thinkers have utilized American Constitutionalism as a basis for arguments in support of Black freedom, from the U.S. founding to abolition and from emancipation to the Civil Rights Movement.

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