Benefit Print Project publishes editions and unique projects in
all media. In order to connect audiences and support the creative
programing of other institutions and organizations, the
internationally acclaimed artists with whom Benefit Print Project
collaborates are invited to donate signed and numbered proofs to
recipients selected by them and Benefit Print Project's
co-directors.
Since its inception in 2010, Benefit Print Project has also
coordinated the publication of editions in consortium with
culturally significant institutions and organizations in Africa,
Asia, and North America, including the Adrienne Arsht Center for the
Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, American Friends of the Tel
Aviv Museum of Art, American Friends of Museums in Israel, Canadian
Friends of the Israel Museum, CITYarts, Market Theatre, Momenta Art,
and Parrish Art Museum. Benefit Print Project has, additionally,
interfaced with many others, such as the Atlantic Center for the
Arts, Brooklyn Academy of Music, MUSE Film and Television, San
Francisco Symphony,
and Services for the UnderServed.
ABOUT BENEFIT PRINT PROJECT'S CO-DIRECTORS
THOMAS W. LOLLAR
Thomas W. Lollar, former director of Visual Arts at
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NY, is a
scholar, arts administrator, and internationally
recognized ceramist whose works are in numerous
corporate, private, and public collections, including
those of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design
Museum, NY, and New York's Museum of Arts and
Design.
As director of Visual Arts at Lincoln Center for 22
years, Lollar was steward of the Center's collection,
which includes masterpieces by Lee Bontecou, Alexander
Calder, Marc Chagall, Jasper Johns, Henry Moore, Louise
Nevelson, and David Smith. During his tenure and under
the auspices of the Vera List Poster and Print Program,
Lincoln Center published editions in print by, amongst
many others, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Helen
Frankenthaler, Howard Hodgkin, Sol LeWitt, Robert
Motherwell, Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Richard
Serra, and Tom Wesselmann.
Lollar is an instructor in the Department of Arts &
Humanities at Teachers College - Columbia University, an
institution at which he has taught for more than two
decades. He has also taught at Parsons The New School
For Design, and was executive director of the Brodsky
Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey.
PAUL LIMPEROPULOS
Paul Limperopulos was assistant director of the Brodsky
Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey. Before his appointment at Rutgers,
Limperopulos was a curator in the department of Visual
Arts at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NY.
Under his direction, the Brodsky Center, which is a
division of the Mason Gross School of the Arts,
published projects in print and handmade paper by Lynda
Benglis, Spencer Finch, William Kentridge, Kiki Smith,
and Joan Snyder. Limperopulos also worked on projects at
Rutgers with Clytie Alexander, Faith Ringgold, and Pat
Steir. Under the auspices of the Vera List Poster and
Print Program at Lincoln Center, Limperopulos
commissioned Sharon Core, Karen Kilimnik, and Marilyn
Minter to create special projects for the center's 50th
anniversary, and contributed to another series created
by Malcolm Morley, Richard Serra, and Terry Winters for
the same occasion.
Limperopulos received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts. He is on the
faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at New York Institute of Technology,
where he teaches in the departments of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy
and Ethics. His interests include aesthetics and semiotics.
Overall, editions and unique projects in all media published
under the respective directions of Thomas W. Lollar and Paul
Limperopulos over the course of their careers have been acquired by
numerous private collectors, as well as institutions, including:
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Montefiore Fine Art Program and Collection, New York, NY
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL
Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Museum of Art, OR
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Wells Fargo Corporate Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
