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Three Decades of American Printmaking

Greetings! 

The Brandywine Workshop has acquired the remaining stock from the collection catalog,Three Decades of Amercian Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection. This 240-page, hardbound book, color illustrated with 147 color and black and white photographs, includes essays on the lithography process used at Brandywine, history of printmaking and essays examining the African American master- printer led workshops such  as: Hand Graphics, Lou Stovall's Printmaking Workshop, Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop and Brandywine. 

 

The Big Deal
 
For a limited time, we are selling new editions for at the discounted price of $24.95.  Members pay $22.45 (10% additional discount).  The book, regulary $50.00, is a must for any print collector and others looking to research African American, Latino, Asian and Native-American artists rarely found in most Art History books. A great birthday gift.

 
three decades of american printmaking
 
Brandywine Announcements

Brandywine Galleries at the Firehouse will be closed

July 1, 2008 until December 31, 2010 for renovations (new entrance and plaza.)

The Printshop will remain open.

 
 
Creating a Brandywine Workshop Fund at The Philadelphia Foundation

The Philadelphia Foundation serves a variety of donors who share a common concern – the welfare of the people and communities of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Individuals, families, businesses and even other foundations create permanent charitable funds that help our five county regions meet the challenges of changing times. Funds of all sizes can retain donors’ individual names and charitable purposes, while benefiting from the professional administration of a major institution.

 

Benefits of a Brandywine Workshop Fund at The Philadelphia Foundation

Permanence: as living memorials, funds at The Philadelphia Foundation carry out their donors’ – charitable interests in perpetuity. Should a fund’s purpose become outdated by time, it will be redirected to similar purposes.

Tax Advantages: Because The Philadelphia Foundation is a public charity rather than a private foundation; all donations earn the maximum available tax deduction for charitable contributions. Our funds also avoid the excise taxes and many other restrictions placed on private foundations.

Convenience: Most funds can be created in one brief meeting. Afterward, the donor retains the satisfaction of giving while the Foundation takes care of all the paperwork. In contrast, private foundations can take months to establish and require costly administrative support.

Economics of Scale: By commingling our funds for administration and investment purposes, we incur lower management costs than does a separate private foundation. So more of our donors’ money goes to charity, rather than to overhead.

Charitable Impact: We specialize in understanding the needs and issues facing regional communities and nonprofit organizations of our five-county region. That way, we can advise donors, if they so desire, and target grants where they will do the most good.

How to Start a Fund Benefiting Brandywine

  • Decide When to Give: Donors may create their funds during life, by will, or through a trust arrangement that benefits their families as well as charity. Tax deductions are earned at the time of gift, while grant making continues into the future.

  • Decide What to Give: Almost any kind of asset can be used to start a fund, including cash, publicly traded securities, closely held stock, interests in limited partnerships, and – with prior approval by the Board of Managers – real estate and tangible personal property. Gifts of long-term appreciated property earn tax deductions for their full market value. You can also create a new fund or add to an existing one with a charitable remainder trust or through participation in the Foundation’s pooled income fund.

  • Choose the Name of Your Fund: Most funds are named for the donor or the donor’s family, or as a memorial to someone special. Every grant form the fund will carry this name. Donors who prefer anonymity may choose names that reflect their funds’ charitable purposes.
  • Choose a Type of Fund: Donors may choose from six types of funds that reflect different charitable interests:
    1. Unrestricted Funds. These general-purpose funds give the Foundation the greatest flexibility to meet the region’s changing and emerging needs over the years.
    2. Field-of-Interest Funds. Donors may prefer to specify a broad area of charitable interest, such as arts and culture or education, or a particular community or neighborhood within the five-county region to benefit from grants from their funds.
    3. Donor-Advised Funds. Donors who wish to remain actively involved with their philanthropy may make grant recommendations of the Board of Managers, which must retain finale responsibility for all distributions made by the Foundation.
    4. Scholarship Funds. Donors may endow scholarship awards to benefit a certain type of student or a specific institution or to encourage study of a particular subject.
    5. Designated Funds. Donors may choose one or more specific organizations to share the income from their funds.
    6. Organization Endowment Funds. Nonprofit organizations may create permanent endowment funds at the Foundation. The Foundation handles all administrative and investment responsibilities, freeing the organization to pursue its charitable mission.
  • Choose a Financial Manager: You may select the Philadelphia Foundation, Inc. or one of The Foundation’s trustee banks as trust and investment manager for your fund. Both The Philadelphia Foundation, Inc. and the trustee banks have produced outstanding investment results.

Under the stewardship of our Board of Managers and trustee, banks, Foundation assets are invested in a balanced portfolio that produces a regular income for grant making while maximizing asset growth and security of principal.

 

What does it Cost to Create a Fund?

A minimum contribution of $3,000 can start most types of funds. There are no start-up charges or fees.

 

How Much Money Does a Fund Produce Each Year for Grantmaking?

The Philadelphia Foundation encourages all donors to establish permanent or endowed funds and to adopt the Foundation’s spending policy. The spending policy is designed to allow the funds to be invested on a “total return” basis to maintain and, if possible, increase the purchasing power of the funds, while at the same time providing a relatively steady and predictable level of funding for grantees. The Spending Policy currently in effect provides for the Foundation annually to spend 5% of the average quarterly value of each fund. By adopting the spending policy for your fund, you can be assured that your fund will benefit the community as much as 100 years from now as it does today.

 

Working with the Philadelphia Foundation

Donors are invited to consult the Foundation’s professional staff about community needs and grant making strategies. They may also arrange to involve family members in the work of their funds. Donors may add to their funds at any time, and others may also contribute.

 

Fees

The Foundation charges minimal administrative fees. The current annual fee for endowed funds is one percent of the fund’s market value. Extraordinary expenses for legal, consulting, or program services are charged against the appropriate fund.

For Additional Information

Foundation staff welcomes inquiries about creating funds in the Foundation. Prospective donors or their advisors are invited to call the Foundation for additional information, for suggest language for wills, or sample fund agreements for any of the types of funds described above.

Heather Gee
Vice President for Development Services
The Philadelphia Foundation
1234 Market Street, Suite 1900
Philadelphia, PA 19107-3794

Telephone: (215) 563-6417
Fax: (215) 562-6882
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African American Artist Portfolio Promotion

10 Prints/$10,000

An Incredible reduced price offer( for a limited time only) from the Brandywine Print Collection. For additional details please call The Brandywine Workshop at 215.546.3675 or email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

To View our Special Promotional Brochure please click here.
 
Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection

Edited by Louise D. Stone and Allan Edmunds with an introduction by Halima Taha, Ph.D.

This book is thought to be the first inclusive book exploring the contributions to American printmaking by Asian, Latin, African, and Native Americans. We believe it is a must buy for art collectors, especially those who have purchased prints from the Brandywine collection. We thought you would want to own a copy for you library and reference. In addition to regular hardbound volume, we have produced a deluxe edition that we think will be popular with the fine book collectors. The regular hardbound edition sells for $50.00 and the signed deluxe edition that includes three mini-prints by the painter Sam Gilliam in a cloth covered slipcase box sells for $500.00 each. At Brandywine, we would consider your purchase of either volume a show of support for our continued efforts on behalf or artists nationally and internationally. Proceeds from the sale will be used to fund new residencies and create a “reserve fund” to ensure future continuity in the operation of the visiting artist program.

If interested, call Brandywine at 215-546-3675, toll free at 1-877-ART-PRNT, or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Reviewed by Midwest Book Review

“Founded by master printmaker Allan Edmunds in 1972, The Brandywine Workshop has instructed students and artists in the Philadelphia community in the art and craft of printmaking for more than thirty years. Three Decades of American impressive archival collection showcases 147 color and black/white photographs of work by such renowned artists as Eugene Grigsby, Woodsworth Jarell, and Margo Humphrey to reveal printmaking as an innovative contemporary art form. Informative Essays by Halima Taha, Lois H. Johnson, Patricia Smith, Keith A. Morrison, and Claude Elliot highlight the history and contributions of Brandywine. Enhanced with a glossary and a recommended addition to personal, professional, and academic library American Art History reference collections and Art School curriculum supplemental reading list."

www.midwestbookreview.com

Reviewed by Black Issues Book Review
The power of the print

"Three Decades of Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection Introduction by Halima Taha, Ph.D. Hudson Hills Press, October 2004 $50, ISBN 1-555-95241-0 Beautiful, innovative printmaking by some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st century is at the heart of the luscious look at The Brandywine Workshop, a Philadelphia treasure that has existed for more than 30 years. Reading the essays that place the art in context, one is struck by the power of an idea well executed. The workshop, no doubt, has amassed an important collection of prints produced there. How those prints have been made over three decades is an important story as well.Most who have participated in the Visiting-Artist-in-Residence program have largely worked in mediums other than printmaking. The experience has given artists--largely those of color--from some 35 states and 15 foreign countries both the opportunity and the challenge to create interesting and provocative limited-edition prints. (Brandywine prints are struck in editions of 100 prints and 20 artist's proofs.)What is abundantly clear is that the Brandywine Workshop is a smashing success. In fact, Halima Taha, one of the leading experts on art created by African Americans, notes in an essay that Allan L. Edmunds, Brandywine's founder and director, has earned "international stature" because of the workshop's ongoing apprenticeship programs and its commitment to developing culturally diverse, limited fine-art prints.All that bodes quite well for the devoted art patron and anyone who collects or simply is passionate about contemporary printmaking. While the varied essays are interesting and required reading, it is the 126 color plates and 21 halftones found within the book-work done by influential artists while they apprenticed at Brandywine--that are the real joy of this majestic-fine arts book. The offering is a visual delight."

Michael Days is managing editor of The Daily News of Philadelphia and a longtime collector of works by African American artists.

 www.blackissues.com

March - April 2005