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This chapter highlights the transformative impact of Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW) on some of the Puerto Rican / Nuyorican artists in New York who found a home there. The RBPMW was an inclusive hub for artists during the 1970s–1990s, with its comprehensive facilities and open-door policy. Blackburn’s commitment to collaboration and community building was pivotal. This period nurtured creative connections, intercultural friendships, and diversity in the arts, prefiguring the era of multiculturalism. The chapter underscores the impact of the RBPMW in fostering global artistic networks, especially for Puerto Rican / Nuyorican artists, including Nitza Tufiño, Juan Sánchez, and Diógenes Ballester. The essay inserts Blackburn, a Black American of Jamaican descent, into Puerto Rico’s printmaking lineage within a broader legacy of creating connections across the African diaspora and multiple generations of printmakers.

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