Source Booksellers Presents: Citizen Printer Author Event

Celebrating the storied career of our beloved letterpress printer whose posters spread messages of racial justice!!!!!

Join us to on Friday September 27 at 6pm to celebrate the release of Citizen Printer with Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Our bookstore could not be more delighted to celebrate this book and share it with our community. We jumped for joy at the notice of the release and the storied Letter Press career of Amos Paul Kennedy is on view at Letterform Arhive now until next year. We are going to ask Mr. Kennedy a few questions and he may sign books but will greet you!!

Join this celebration with a book ticket, that includes a copy of the Citizen Printer or a book or a pre order book or bundle with us at this link for instore/event pick up. We have a limited amount of 2 for 1 tickets and a pick up tickets that is good for Citizen Printer or pre order Sista Said : Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts.

About the Book:

Citizen Printer tells Kennedy’s inspiring story and contextualizes his important work—and offers readers tools for lifting their voices, too. A vital monograph on a trailblazing contemporary Black artist, Citizen Printer features 500 reproductions representing the breadth of Kennedy’s posters and prints, plus original portraiture of the artist at work, a powerful artist statement and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Austin Kleon, all presented in a dynamic type-forward design from AND, the design studio of AIGA Award winner Gail Anderson and Joe Newton.

Encompassing the evolving trajectory of Black liberation in the United States, from growing up in the ’60s during the Civil Rights Era, to the rise of Black Nationalism in the ’70s, to the present Post-Civil Rights era, Kennedy has seen how these movements have shaped Black identity in the United States and has drawn from this as inspiration.

Contributor bios

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. has been featured by the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine and The Economist, and his work has been exhibited by the Library of Congress, MoMA and other institutions throughout the US. He was the subject of a 2012 feature-length documentary, Proceed and Be Bold! - Art by
Kelly Walters is a professor at Parsons School of Design at the New School in New York. She is the author of Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators s and coeditor of The Black Experience in Design - Text by
Myron Beasley is a professor at Bates College. - Forward
Austin Kleon is the author of Show Your Work and Steal Like an Artist.- Editor

This book accompanies an exhibition at San Francisco's Letterform Archive, 06/15/24–01/12/25

• Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. operates Kennedy Prints , a communal letterpress center in Detroit👇🏽

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