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September 10, 2020 - IFPDA Foundation Announces Annual Grants and Awards for 2020
January 10, 2020 - Applications for Summer 2020 Curatorial Internship grants are now open to eligible institutions
August 30, 2019 - IFPDA Foundation Announces Annual Grants and Awards
August 1, 2019 - Tickets On Sale for the IFPDA Foundation Cocktail Benefit
GRANTS & AWARDS
The IFPDA Foundation provides various grants and awards throughout the year, benefiting many deserving institutions and organizations. Currently, the foundation offers Foundation Grants, the Book Award, Curatorial Internship grants, the Richard Hamilton Acquisition Prize, and the Jordan Schnitzer Award for Excellence in Printmaking.
BOOK AWARD
The IFPDA Book Award was founded in 2004 to highlight and promote published books, articles, or catalogues on fine prints. This annual award honors excellence in research, scholarship, and the discussion of new ideas in the field of fine prints. The award provides one outstanding recipient and publication with a prize of $3,000, and represents another milestone for the organization. As a result, the winner will receive acclaim from one of the most recognizable bodies in the print world.
The jury limits its consideration to books published during the prior year. Each submission will be vetted by members of the jury, who have been selected according to their expertise in that particular field or specialty. They will consider the use of original ideas, fresh research and individual interpretations. The jury will review the submissions and the award will be announced at the Collectors and Curators Breakfast during the IFPDA Print Fair in October.
The application for the 2022 IFPDA Foundation Book Award is now open through July 22, 2022.


2021 Winner
Prints and Their Makers
Phil Sanders
Princeton Architectural Press
Prints and Their Makers takes you behind the scenes to witness the creative process at the world’s top printmaking workshops. Master printer Phil Sanders offers an in-depth look at this versatile medium and places contemporary prints and practices in the context of traditions and techniques developed over more than a thousand years.
Clear and engaging explanations illuminate the seven major printmaking processes: relief, intaglio, lithography, monotype, screenprint, photogravure, and chine collé.
2021 Honorable Mention
Scene Through Wood: A Century of Modern Wood Engraving
Anne Desmet
Ashmolean Museum Publishing
The Ashmolean Museum houses one of the most extensive collections of wood engravings in the world. The collection effectively began with the gift in 1964, by Arthur Mitchell, of over 3,000 prints, including a large group of wood engravings.
During the 1980s and 1990s, it expanded remarkably with acquisitions of large groups of prints, often as gifts from the artists, resulting in a succession of monographic exhibitions on some of the most important wood engravers.
This exhibition catalogue covers the entire history of wood engraving, including every major artist of the genre.
2020
The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York

Christina Weyl
Yale University Press
Published 2019
2018
Hiroshige and Eisen: The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido

Andreas Marks and Rhiannon Paget
Taschen
Published 2017
2020
The Renaissance of Etching

Catherine Jenkins, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Freyda Spira
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Distributed by Yale University Press
Published 2019
2018
The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints 1770-1850

John Ittmann
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Published 2017
2019
The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy

Naoko Takahatake
with contributions by Jonathan Bober, Jamie Gabbarelli,
Antony Griffiths, Peter Parshall, and Linda Stiber Morenus
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Delmonico Books - Prestel
Published 2018
2017
The Print Before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550-1820

Antony Griffiths
The British Museum
Published 2016