PROCEED AND BE BOLD!

Starring Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
Thursday September 18, 2025
3 PM in JCBA's Book Arts Gallery
at Florida Atlantic’s Wimberly Library 3rd Floor East
Admission is free; donations are welcome.

Proceed & Be Bold!
90 minutes / 2008 / Directed by Laura Zinger / Brown Finch Films

We've screened this film before, but it's worth revisiting now. As inspirational as it is comical, Proceed and Be Bold! documents the life of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr, a letterpress artist (just don't let him hear you say that) who lives out the secret American Dream of rejecting the establishment and living his art as his life. Whether it's challenging racial assumptions by calling himself a "humble negro printer," or by bringing art to the masses with his affordable, unpretentious posters of wisdom, Kennedy's life as an artist is both intriguing and exhilarating. Never has a man in overalls been such an unforgettable example of a life lived fully, honestly, and without regret. Documentary; adult language. (For this film announcement slide, we've borrowed an image from the 2023 James Madison University exhibition of APK Jr.'s works.)

The Jaffe Center for Book Arts is located on the third floor east of Florida Atlantic University's Wimberly Library. From I-95 or the Florida Turnpike, exit Glades Road, east. The FAU campus is located just east of I-95. If you enter the campus at FAU's main entrance (the one furthest west on Glades Road... and the first one you get to approaching from I-95 or the turnpike), you will enter on West University Drive. Continue straight on West University Drive to the traffic light at its intersection with Volusia Street. Turn right onto Volusia Street. You will see a parking garage on Volusia Street, and the Wimberly Library is the next building east of the parking garage.

The I-95 interchange for Florida Atlantic University (Exit 48A) takes you directly from the interstate to FAU. Once you pass the traffic light at Spanish River Boulevard, you are on the FAU campus on FAU Boulevard. Continue to the traffic signal at the intersection of FAU Boulevard and University Drive (FAU Stadium will be on your right). Turn right onto University Drive. Turn left at the traffic signal at Volusia Street. You will see a parking garage on Volusia Street, and the Wimberly Library is the next building east of the parking garage.

PARKING

Visitors to the FAU campus must pay at the meters or use the ParkMobile app (or visit https://parkmobile.io/) to park on campus. Both are available 24/7. Parking is $2.50 per hour. There are no visitor decals or badges.

Visitors using the ParkMobile app or website may park in any of the yellow or blue lots. Blue spots are designated by normal white lines on the ground. Parking Garage 1, which is the garage adjacent to the Library, is a blue lot.

The ParkMobile parking zone for the library's parking lot (Lot 19/20) is Zone 6927. The parking zone for Parking Garage 1, which is the building just west of the library, is Zone 6931.

Vehicles paying by physical meter must park in the yellow metered lot and spaces. These will have yellow lines on the ground as well as “Pay By Plate” signs in front of each. These are found in Lot 19 in front of the Library.

Parking is $2.50 per hour. There is no free parking on campus. The meters and ParkMobile accept credit cards as a payment method.

There is no backing in on campus; Vehicles must be parked nose-in. Vehicles must park in designated parking spots as well. There is no parking in the grass, streets, roads, loading zones etc. allowed.

Our campus maps of parking can be found: Maps (fau.edu)