Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco

September 15 - December 13, 2026

Blackburn Study Center
323 W 39th St, 2nd Fl

Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco curated by Imani Congdon, with support from Teiger Foundation, mobilizes firsthand accounts and never-before-exhibited private collections of prints, photographs and ephemera from the first decade of the Asilah Cultural Moussem. Established in 1978, this international festival brought together printmakers, musicians, intellectuals, and poets from around the globe to create, as participant Camille Billops described it, “a permanent centre for cultural diffusion, rich in authenticity and steeped in heritage.”

Programs at the Blackburn Study Center, a space dedicated to the history and legacy of Robert Blackburn, are made possible with major support from the Teiger Foundation.

Press & Pull: Two Decades at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

September 11 - December 12, 2026

Gallery 400 - University of Illinois Chicago
400 S. Peoria Street
Chicago, IL

Press & Pull: Two Decades at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop is a survey exhibition marking 20 years following the passing of its founder, artist, educator, and master printer Robert Blackburn (1920–2003). With over 35 original prints, archival ephemera, and video drawn from the printshop’s historic collection and archive, this exhibition reveals the origins, mentorship, collaboration, and technical innovation that have made it the US’s oldest and continuously operating cooperative workshop.

Press & Pull’s Chicago iteration will feature a supplementary exhibition with prints and archival materials that trace the city’s historical parallels to the Workshop, underscoring the artistic ecosystems that developed in the mid-twentieth century and their impact today.

OPPORTUNITIES

Now Accepting Applications: RBPMW Studio Immersion Project (SIP) Fellowship

Deadline: August 9, 2026 11:59pm EST
Residency Dates: January 26th - April 30th, 2027

EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop is pleased to announce the Studio Immersion Project Fellowship.

This intensive fellowship is designed to introduce artists from multiple disciplines to printmaking. We invite artists seeking creative exploration through printmaking, regardless of expertise, to apply their creative knowledge and conceptual goals to the print medium. Selected artists are each provided access to a community and professional printmaking workspace, a $2,000 stipend, three printmaking workshops, and assistance from EFA RBPMW staff.

EVENTS

In Conversation: Technologies of Resistance

Thursday, August 13, 6–8 PM

Join us for the inaugural program in a new series of curator- and critic-led conversations with EFA Studio Member artists.

Moderated by Cassie Packard—New York-based art writer, reviews editor at frieze, author of Art Rules (2023), and recipient of the 2024 Rabkin Prize for art writing—Technologies of Resistance brings together Laura Anderson Barbata, Wafaa Bilal, Jan Mun, and Finnegan Shannon to explore how contemporary artists engage questions of resistance, care, accessibility, collaboration, and collective repair.

RISO

Instructor: JOHN ANDREWS

SATURDAY & SUNDAY
8/1 & 8/2
11 AM - 2 PM

OIL PAINT STICK MONOTYPE

Instructor: ALESSANDRO LEVATO

FRIDAYS
8/14 & 8/21 (Optional session 8/28)
11 AM- PM