History and Mission

The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper was founded in 1986 by Judith K. Brodsky as an international, national, and regional center for leading edge printmaking ideas and education. In September of 2006 it was renamed the Brodsky Center in honor of Judith K. Brodsky for her leadership, vision and many contributions over the last 20 years.

The Brodsky Center provides the opportunity for artists who are contributing new narratives to the American cultural mainstream to create innovative work in print and paper in collaboration with master printers and papermakers. The state-of-the-art facilities provide capability for working in all print media-digital, intaglio, lithography, silk screen, relief, papermaking, photo processes, letterpress and books.

The Brodsky Center is also a learning center housed in the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Students in higher education, high school, and post graduates are welcomed as interns and are exposed to the collaborative processes that result in challenging new work. Artists in Residence give talks that are widely announced, thus affording access by the public to interaction with distinguished visual artists and their ideas. In addition, the Brodsky Center organizes traveling exhibitions that introduce contemporary prints and handmade paper projects to regional, national, and international audiences, both museum-going and non-traditional. The Brodsky Center also introduces high school students to prints and handmade paper through interactive video transmission, and artists' visits to schools.

The Center is also a place for critical analysis of contemporary art. It is dedicated to the concept that the printed image, perhaps peripheral in the past, is central to art practice today, both as inspiration and medium.