Exhibitions at The Philadelphia Sketch Club

For Immediate Release

Date: February 1, 2005

Contact: Diane Podolsky 215-545-7140

Printmakers Yesterday and Today at the Philadelphia Sketch Club

March is printmaking month! The Philadelphia Sketch Club will participate in Philadelphia's tribute to the art of printmaking by hosting an exhibition titled Printmakers Yesterday and Today at the Philadelphia Sketch Club. The exhibition will feature a variety of etchings, lithographs, and other print media created by members and participants in the printmaking workshop from the past as well as the present. Works by Earl Horter, Benton Spruance, Dorothy and Hugh Hutton, Michael Kuncevich, Elizabeth MacDonald, and other noted artists will be included.

The exhibition will open with a free, public reception to be held on Sunday, March 6 from 2:00 – 5:00 pm. The show will continue through the end of June, 2005. The Philadelphia Sketch Club is located at 235 S. Camac Street in center city Philadelphia (between 12 th & 13 th ; Locust & Spruce Sts.).

Other organization sponsoring events in celebration of printmaking are The Free Library of Philadelphia's Print and Picture Collection, The Print Center, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Support for this exhibition was made possible by Frame Fit Company, LA Weight Loss Centers, Arcadia Foundation, William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, our membership and patrons, and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency.

For further information, call 215-545-9298 or visit our website at www.sketchclub.org

The Philadelphia Sketch Club, 235 S. Camac St. (between 12th & 13th, Locust & Spruce Sts)
is located in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. 215-545-9298.