Black Box Press Studio

This!!...his right here is why I don't take him anywhere 😭😂😭😂😭...he got his lil degree 👨🏾‍🎓and he think he know every @!?$& thing😂 JK. Seriously, I'm so proud of this man, I was beaming all evening! CONGRATULATIONS DR. CEDRIC A. MARTIN ! Sincerely, Mrs. Dr. Martin (😂😂 WE worked hard for that title) 😘❤️ #uofhgraduate #thereisadrinthehouse #blackboxpressstudio #makingmovesleavingmemories #proudwife

My first attempt at clay food!!!!! FULL DISCLOSURE...I was totally going for fried chicken 😳😂😭😂 I have no idea how we got to bbq....but it still looks edible 🤷🏾‍♀️ so I'll ride with it 🙃 Next week I will attempt a few side dishes, let me know in the comments if you have any suggestions on what I should attempt to create #miniupdate #blackboxpressstudio #clayfood #minilife #delitapinchbackmartin

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Repost from @hyperallergic • At 90, printmaker Mohammad Omer Khalil is getting his due. The New York-based Sudanese artist looks back on a lifetime of experimentation in a multi-city retrospective, starting at the Blackburn Study Center in Manhattan. Though Common Ground is just his third solo exhibition in New York City, Khalil has been celebrated across the Arab and African art worlds. . . . Image 1: Mohammad Omer Khalil with his work in Common Ground at Blackburn Study Center, New York (photo Leslie Jean-Bart, courtesy the artist/Blackburn Study Center) Image 2: Mohammad Omer Khalil with his etching “Petra VIII” (1994) (photo Samoel González, courtesy the artist/Blackburn Study Center) Image 4: Mohammad Omer Khalil, “Common Ground X” (c. 1985–95), etching, photocopy transfer, aquatint, and soft ground (photo Samoel González, courtesy the artist/Blackburn Study Center)

Uhmmm....Y'all thought I didn't hear what you were saying 🙃...."she just over there playing with that dollhouse"....I heard you!!!! 😂😜....now what you got to say?! 😂😂😂 There are still a few prints left if you want to support this amazing project, "Elizabeth Speaks", an incredible documentary film on the life of world renowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. For more information go to my website (link in the bio ) or 100% of the proceeds go to the production of the documentary "Elizabeth Speaks" @elizabeth_speaks_the_film Directed by revolutionary Catlett's granddaughter @naimamora Special thank you to everyone who has supported this project!😘❤️ #fundthefilm #elizabethspeaks #blackboxpressstudio #indiedocumentary #elizabethcatlett

Mini update!!! Kitchen COMPLETE....👩🏾‍🍳 Living room DONE. 🛋️✨ A tiny version of my real life—same artwork, same books, same energy… just a little more contained. stay tuned for more updates 🙃 #MiniLife #DollhouseDiaries #TinyButTrue #ArtistLife #delitapinchbackmartin

Galerie Myrtis is proud to host Beyond the Surface: Exploring Visibility in Print, a group exhibition organized by the Legacy Print Council (LPC) and guest curated by Delita Martin. Join us for the opening reception taking place on Saturday, May 2nd, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. All are welcome and no registration is required to attend. Click the link in our bio for more on the exhibition and featured artists! "In an era defined by constant image circulation and the immediacy of being seen, Beyond the Surface: Exploring Visibility in Print brings together eleven printmakers whose practices interrogate what it means to appear, to be recognized, and to remain unseen. Rooted in the material and conceptual language of printmaking, this exhibition examines visibility not as a fixed condition, but as a layered and shifting experience, one that is shaped by history, identity, and power." - Delita Martin Featured Artists: Chole Alexander, Rabea Ballin, Jamaal Barber, Maurice Evans, Ann Johnson, Grace Kisa, Delita Martin, Steve Prince, Rashaun Rucker, Jess Sabogal, and Shanna Strauss. Beyond the Surface: Exploring Visibility in Print runs May 2- July 11, 2026, at 2224 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday by appointment, 2:00-6:00 pm. Hours extended during special events. For additional information on the exhibition, please contact the gallery at (410) 235 - 3711 or Ky Vassor, Assistant Director, at [email protected]. For sales inquiries, please contact our Sales Director, Noel Bedolla, at [email protected]. Cover artwork details: TALLER SANAA (Shanna Strauss & Jess Sabogal), Embrace Absolute Freedom, 2023, Photopolymer gravure with photo litho and chine-collé, 30 x 22" (unframed), 32.5 x 25" (framed), Variable Ed. of 10 Featured images courtesy the artists and Galerie Myrtis

I am so excited for my curatorial debut! "BEYOND THE SURFACE: EXPLORING VISIBILITY IN PRINT" I want to thank my incredible talented family of printmakers, @legacyprintcouncil Featured Artists: Chole Alexander, Rabea Ballin, Jamaal Barber, Maurice Evans, Ann Johnson, Grace Kisa, Delita Martin, Steve Prince, Rashaun Rucker, Jess Sabogal, and Shanna Stauss. I also want to send a huge thank you to my gallery family @galeriemyrtis , thank you for all the hard work and supporting my vision! About the show: May 2 - July 11, 2026, at 2224 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD. Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday by appointment, 2:00 – 6:00 pm. "In an era defined by constant image circulation and the immediacy of being seen, Beyond the Surface: Exploring Visibility in Print brings together eleven printmakers whose practices interrogate what it means to appear, to be recognized, and to remain unseen. Rooted in the material and conceptual language of printmaking, this exhibition examines visibility not as a fixed condition, but as a layered and shifting experience, one that is shaped by history, identity, and power. Printmaking, at its core, is an act of revelation. It is the transfer of mark to surface, the emergence of image through pressure, repetition, and time. Across this exhibition, artists employ a range of techniques—relief, lithography, screen printing, monotype, and hybrid processes—to emphasize the physicality of making as a metaphor for visibility itself. Layers are built, obscured, and reconfigured; textures hold traces of what came before; and surfaces become sites where presence and absence coexist. Together, the eleven artists in this exhibition invite viewers to move beyond surface readings and into deeper engagement. They ask us to consider not only what is visible, but how we see, who is granted recognition, and what remains overlooked. Through the enduring and tactile language of printmaking, Beyond the Surface becomes both a space of reflection and a call to awareness, challenging us to reconsider our role as observers and participants in the ongoing act of making meaning visible.” – Delita Martin

Repost from @uihealthcare_projectart • “Moments from Maternal Health” 🤱🏻 Highlighting artworks in the UI Health Care Permanent Collection which have just been installed in the 30,000 square foot, newly renovated, postpartum care space of Level 7 John Pappajohn Pavillion. Project Art is focused on art with intent, carefully curated to engage and inspire. 🧸 Today we are featuring the work of artist and advocate Delita Martin! Artist Delita Martin’s Keepsakes series works to preserve the childhood of young black girls, challenging society’s bias of “adultification”, which views children in marginalized groups as somehow more mature of less innocent than their peers. The artwork is constructed by layering a hand drawn familial portrait on a printing plate made from an antique christening dress collected by the artist, and two background printing plates with designs drawn by Martin. In the final step, the printed image is stitched by hand with needles and thread by contributing stitchers. Martin places the powerful portraits of young women, “Reneshia” depicted, in the center of the art, surrounded by the stitching of modern community members, offering the viewer a different, non-biased, perspective on the lives of Black women. For more information on artist Delita Martin and the Black Box Press Foundation for artists who inspire activism and social change, visit blackboxpressstudio.com Image Delita Martin “Reneisha” Mixed media 29"" (h) x 41.5"" (w) Collection # 11263 #uihealthcareprojectart

Repost from @brandywine.workshop • Brandywine Workshop & Archives presents Artists N Conversation. Join us at 6pm on April 29th to learn about our unique and highly anticipated print releases by Delita Martin and Lavett Ballard. Collaborative printers Justine Ditto and Alexis Nutini will join the conversation moderated by Dr. Myrtis Bedolla. #collaborativePrintmaking #ThePrintedImage #BrandywineWorkshop #woodcuts #Lithography

"The Room of the Elder" BY LINDA HOGAN Sleep with your face visible so the young will remember you are with them. You want the others to see your open soul, the flower with petals opened. Sleep with good breath. Wild creatures will know you still breathe and not snip the threads of your making. No angels will think you’ve left the body no matter what pain made of you yesterday. Still, you do in all truth want to wake this morning, and you must keep away the envious who wish to take you with them. In this house of family, we want no harm to others. In this home of being, this great human cosmos, there’s meaning in each enchanted body room where elders dwell and want to be always awake in the room of morning sun. How it has bloomed there. How one can now afford to be open, kind, softly alive in morning as water rains gently from the sky. Maybe my grandchild brings her child to my arms today, or tomorrow a neighbor brings fresh cakes she made. There is always something sweet showing its face. It has risen like new life, food raised by yeast, and the tree I planted bearing its golden nectarines this first time, preparing to fall. #poetrymeetsart #delitapinchbackmartin #blackboxpresstudio #drawing #thesingkeepersofebon

Question: "So, how far down the miniature rabbit 🐇 hole 🕳️ have you gone? Me: uhmmm.....not too far 🤷🏾‍♀️🤭🙃 #workingminiatures #blackboxpressstudio #miniatureworld #delitapinchbackmartin #oldschool

The print world has lost another great. Eduardo Roca Salazar, "Choco", renowned Cuban painter and engraver, passed away in Havana. Rest well, your kindness and generosity will keep your memory alive forever 🕊️ #alwaysremembered❤️ #cubanartist #masterprintmaker #EduardoRocaSalazar #Choco