MY PEOPLE is a Langston Hughes quote printed by letter press printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. My People is a handmade type poster created and signed by letterpress artist Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. The poster is ink on chip board, 12\u2033 x 19\u2033 and produced in an unknown and unnumbered multiple edition. Kennedy\u2019s posters are messages of social justice each printed with different background variations and flaws as part of his process. The image you receive will be shipped flat in a stiff oversized cardboard mailer either first class ground rate or priority.<\/p>\n
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. was working a corporate job when, at nearly forty, he discovered the art of letterpress printing on a tour of Colonial Williamsburg. Kennedy then devoted himself to the craft, earning an MFA in graphic design at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. He now operates Kennedy Prints!, a letterpress printshop in Detroit. He has been featured in outlets like Hyperallergic, the New York Times, the Economist, and he has exhibited in dozens of museums and galleries across the United States, including Poster House, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Library of Congress, and the libraries of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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