On February 10 at 7:00 p.m. MSK, join Chief Curator of Poster House Angelina Lippert for a live interview with celebrated letterpress printer Amos Kennedy to celebrate Black History Month. Learn about Kennedy’s path toward creative expression and what his posters and prints mean for uplifting communities around the world. Tune in and ask him questions live!

About the guest speaker:

Amos Paul Kennedy is one of the most important letterpress printers practicing today.

From an early age, Kennedy was interested in letters and books and studied calligraphy for several years. At the age of 40, Kennedy visited Colonial Williamsburg, a Virginia living history museum, and was mesmerized by an 18th-century print shop and book bindery demonstration. The incident so influenced him that he studied printing at a community-based letterpress shop in Chicago and, within a year quit his AT&T systems analyst job, which he had held for nearly two decades, to continue printmaking studies.

Kennedy articulated his fascination with letterpress printing in one interview: “… I believe it was the capability of making multiples. Multiples of text are important to me. They allow for distribution.”

He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studied under legendary book designer Walter Hamady, and earned an MFA in 1997. He later taught graphic design at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University.

About the moderator:

Angelina Lippert is the Chief Curator of Poster House, the first poster museum in the United States. She holds an MA in the art of the Russian Avant-Garde from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a BA in theology and art history from Smith College. Prior to her time at Poster House, she worked for ten years as a poster specialist at a leading auction house in New York City. She has produced dozens of auction catalogs and articles, as well as The Art Deco Poster, and has lectured at SVA and The Cooper Union. She is a member of AAM, AAMC, AIGA, and is on the Board of Directors for The Ephemera Society of America. Her research interests include German Expressionism, Soviet film posters, and the history of food and wine in advertising.

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