The Experience
Behind the quiet limestone facade of a converted firehouse lies the Brandywine Workshop, one of the city’s celebrated ventures in graphic arts. Since 1972, Brandywine Workshop has been inviting visual artists to work in its lithography workshop, creating original, limited-edition artworks that are available for sale.
The Workshop’s high-ceilinged galleries show the fine-art prints in its collection. And by now it’s an impressive collection, ranging from such well-known artists as Jacob Lawrence and Kenneth Noland, to exciting artists from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds – John Dowell, Pedro Ospina, Diane Pieri and Betye Saar among them.
History
The Brandywine Workshop moved to its current home on South Broad Street – Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts – in 1993. Behind the 19th century firehouse building is the Workshop’s modern, well-equipped studio, which can produce limited-edition offset lithographs. Its program is a model of its kind, offering experience not only to artists but also to high-school students in after-school and summer programs.