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Philadelphia teens learn screen printing at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, continuing a legacy of arts apprenticeship
['Updated Jul.']
WHYY
Philadelphia teenagers are learning the centuries-old craft of hand screen printing at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, continuing a focus on arts education for young people that dates to the institution’s founding in 1977.
“Students could come here and learn about screen printing on fabric, and [then] those skills would translate, and youth could go on to work in the factories in Philadelphia,” she said.
In three yearly cohorts, groups of four or five Philadelphia teenagers receive a stipend to learn the art of hand screen printing on fabric.
“It introduces them to museum spaces in a live studio, as well as gives them some professional development and teaches them a hard skill, which is screen printing,” Folks said.
In hand screen printing, a design is photographically exposed onto a woven mesh screen to create a stencil.