Juneteenth
Artist
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
United States, born 1948
Printer
York Show Print
Date2005
MediumLetterpress
Dimensions19 x 14 in. (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.6576
DescriptionAmos Paul Kennedy Jr. is a contemporary letterpress printer. His work primarily focuses on documenting Black cultural events in the rural South, embracing the medium as the perfect means of unpretentious communication. This poster, advertising a festival in commemoration of Juneteenth, an annual celebration of African American freedom from slavery, includes the sponsoring organization’s logo repeated as a pressure print throughout the background.On View
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