The Story
A set of vibrant postcards from letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., celebrating powerful words from Black women—from Sojourner Truth to Rosa Parks, from Harriet Tubman to Nina Simone.
Freshly commissioned for the release of Citizen Printer, Sista Said features 2 sets of 20 inspiring quotations, each with a distinct background, reproduced in offset and presented in a keepsake box.
Includes quotations from Ella Baker, Josephine Baker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ruby Bridges, Fannie Lou Hamer, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Pauli Murray, Rosa Louise Parks, Lucy Parsons, Claudia Rankine, Ntozake Shange, Nina Simone, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, and Phillis Wheatley.
The editor
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. (born 1950) was working a corporate job for AT&T when, at the age of 40, he discovered the art of letterpress printing on a tour of Colonial Williamsburg. Kennedy then devoted himself to the craft, earning an MFA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and teaching at Indiana University. He now operates Kennedy Prints!, a communal letterpress center in Detroit. Borrowing words from social justice heroes Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and others, Kennedy layers bold statements on race, capitalism, history and politics in exuberant, colorful and one-of-a-kind posters. Kennedy has been featured in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine and the Economist, and his work has been exhibited by the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and other institutions through the US. He was the subject of a 2012 feature-length documentary, Proceed and Be Bold!
Specs & Care
40 cards enclosed in a keepsake box
8 x 6 inches, Published June 2024
WARNING! California's Proposition 65
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Description
A set of vibrant postcards from letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., celebrating powerful words from Black women—from Sojourner Truth to Rosa Parks, from Harriet Tubman to Nina Simone.
Freshly commissioned for the release of Citizen Printer, Sista Said features 2 sets of 20 inspiring quotations, each with a distinct background, reproduced in offset and presented in a keepsake box.
Includes quotations from Ella Baker, Josephine Baker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ruby Bridges, Fannie Lou Hamer, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Pauli Murray, Rosa Louise Parks, Lucy Parsons, Claudia Rankine, Ntozake Shange, Nina Simone, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, and Phillis Wheatley.
The editor
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. (born 1950) was working a corporate job for AT&T when, at the age of 40, he discovered the art of letterpress printing on a tour of Colonial Williamsburg. Kennedy then devoted himself to the craft, earning an MFA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and teaching at Indiana University. He now operates Kennedy Prints!, a communal letterpress center in Detroit. Borrowing words from social justice heroes Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and others, Kennedy layers bold statements on race, capitalism, history and politics in exuberant, colorful and one-of-a-kind posters. Kennedy has been featured in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine and the Economist, and his work has been exhibited by the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and other institutions through the US. He was the subject of a 2012 feature-length documentary, Proceed and Be Bold!
Specs & Care
40 cards enclosed in a keepsake box
8 x 6 inches, Published June 2024
WARNING! California's Proposition 65
