Rodolfo Abularach
Etel Adnan
Malika Agueznay
Robert Blackburn
Farid Belkahia
Kamal Boutaleb
Camille Billops
Simone Fattal
Mohammad Omar Khalil
Mohamed Melehi
Richard Nelson
Mary Lovelace O'Neal
Abderrahmane Rahoule
Krishna Reddy
Molly Renda & Abbès Saladi
Michael Kelly Williams
Zarina
Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco curated by Imani Congdon, mobilizes firsthand accounts and never-before-exhibited private collections of prints, photographs and ephemera from the first decade of the Asilah Cultural Moussem. Established in 1978, this international festival brought together printmakers, musicians, intellectuals, and poets from around the globe to create, as founders Mohamed Bennaissa and Mohamad Melehi described it, “a permanent centre for cultural diffusion, rich in authenticity and steeped in heritage.”
The exhibition illuminates how Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop served as a conduit in connecting the Moussem’s international artists: from the creative and technical experiments facilitated within the budding print atelier to the cultural exchange reflected in the work produced therein. Asilah Oui celebrates the mutual growth between the two workshops and their intertwined communities.
Together, this presentation reflects the Workshop’s critical history, its contributions to the development of printmaking as both form and practice, and the active evolution of a printmaking community who in Blackburn’s guiding vision of access, equity, and collaboration has made this America’s oldest, continuously operating cooperative printshop.
