Internationally known for his type-driven messages of social justice, equality, and Black power, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is both a poet and printer. For Amos, language functions as action, and he has spent a career making words move. Currently operating the letterpress print shop Kennedy Prints! in Detroit, Letterform Archive has just released this vital and timely monograph, Citizen Printer, with more than 800 reproductions representing the breadth of Kennedy’s letterpress works. At a time of global social and political upheavals and conflicts, an artist dedicated to making art accessible and available to all isn’t just an essential practice but one of the important acts of resistance we have.
Letterform Archive, letterformarchive.org
