ROBERT BLACKBURN, FOUNDER OF PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP, DIES

Robert Blackburn, an artist who founded the influential Printmaking Workshop in New York, died on Monday at the Village Nursing Home in Manhattan at the age of eighty-two, Holland Cotter writes in the New York Times. The workshop, which existed for more than a half century, assumed a catalytic role in the “print boom” of the 1960s. Participants included Benny Andrews, Nell Blaine, Mel Edwards, Michi Itami, Lucio Pozzi, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Juan Sanchez, Michelle Stuart, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Kay WalkingStick, and William T. Williams.