About Us
Black Women of Print (BWoP) was founded in October 2018 by Tanekeya Word, a Black woman, visual artist, art educator, scholar and fine art printmaker who resides in Milwaukee, WI. Word was interested in creating an equitable safe place for Black women printmakers who were underrepresented in the discipline of printmaking, a space that is eulogized as democratic.
“I wanted to create a place where intergenerational Black women printmakers could form bonds like Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs and Elizabeth Catlett. From Mid-Career to Established printmakers, it is my hope that we all can learn something from one another, support one another and also have a home so that the world can get to know the intersectional narratives of Black womanhood and our creative processes.”
-Tanekeya Word
Black Women of Print is a collective of six Mid-Career and Established Black women printmakers based in the United States.
How We Serve
⟶ We center the intersectional narratives of Black women printmakers.
⟶ We create critical discourse on past, present and future representations of Black women printmakers for equity in printmaking through institutional and media partnerships, panels, webinars, art lectures, bi-annual portfolios, exhibitions and a digital archive.
⟶ We pay homage to the Black women printmakers who came before us and share their scholarship, so that they are not hidden and their praxis is expanded through present and future Black women printmakers.
