Getting Paper: Six Key Tips for Art Buying, Daily Collector Habits, and Print Value

Getting PAPER is a 45-minute master class geared toward novice art collectors and casual art lovers. The talk covers the six key considerations that should go into any art purchase, the necessary habits of a collector, and the value of collecting limited editions prints and other works on paper.

About Leon Pelzer Kirkland

Leon Pelzer Kirkland is founder of Pelzer Projects, a Brooklyn-based publisher of fine art prints. A longtime collector of works on paper by Black and women artists, he started Pelzer Projects in 2023 to promote art education and accessibility. He is a lawyer by profession and has spent the last 15 years of his career at HSBC, a leading global bank, where he currently serves as Associate General Counsel. He holds a B.A. from Morehouse College and a J.D. from New York University.

Before Pelzer Projects he owned and operated Pelzer's Pretzels, a soft pretzel bakery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

He has presented "Getting PAPER" at The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Richard Beavers Gallery in SoHo, NYC, the Brandywine Workshop and Archive in Philadelphia, and in private engagements.