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IFPDA Foundation Grants

The Foundation provides financial support to museums and non-profit organizations for exhibitions, publications, and educational projects that promote greater awareness and understanding of printmaking as an artistic medium.

Grants are made to non-profit organizations that are certified tax-exempt under section 501(c) (3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service code. Applications from organizations outside the United States that can document not-for-profit status will also be considered.

Please download the Grants Guidelines for complete details.

Applications for 2026 are now open until February 25, 2026.

2023

Krannert Art Museum

Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt

To support “Storywork the Prints of Marie Watt” exhibition and its programming.

2022

Dieu Donné Paper Mill

Webinar on Print and Paper Techniques in Artists' Books

To support the documentation of artists' books in the Dieu Donné archive and a public conversation between Abby Leigh, Susan Gosin, and Nazanin Noroozi on the intersection of printmaking and papermaking techniques in artists' books.

2022

FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI ONLUS

Census of Italian Renaissance Woodcuts

To support an exhibition based on a digital archive cataloguing woodcuts and woodblocks produced in Italy from the earliest known use of the medium up to around 1550.

2022

New Orleans Museum of Art

Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club

To support the traveling exhibition Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club featuring approximately 139 works, the majority of which are works on paper.

2023

La Casa del Libro, Inc

“Ex-libris, a print for your book” exhibition

To support catalog printing for their exhibition

2022

EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

RBPMW Scholarship Program | Reserved for BIPOC + AAPI Artists

To offer scholarships of free printmaking classes and free access to the printshop for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI).

2022

Kala Art Institute

Exhibition and Public Programs: The Embodied Press - Queer abstraction and the Artist Book

To support for the exhibition & public engagement and for the artists to participate in person in the Kala gallery events.

2022

Print Council of America

Support for the Print Council Index to Print Catalogues Raisonné

Support for updates and troubleshooting of database API over the next two years, and licensing fees

2022

Association of Print Scholars, Inc.

Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from the Twentieth Century to Today

To support a public convening, developed by APS in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s exhibition "Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany", on view October 29, 2022 to April 29, 2023.

2022

Flint Institute of Arts

Glass on Paper: Vitreograph Prints

To support the exhibition Glass on Paper: Vitreograph Prints

2022

Manhattan Graphics Center

Manhattan Graphics Center Exhibition Series

To support the launch of a new guest-curator exhibition series at Manhattan Graphics Center (MGC) with a focus on contemporary issues of public impact.

1998

National Academy of Art

Artists and the Avant Garde Theatre in Paris

The IFPDA Foundation 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 IFPDA Print Fair in April of 2026.

Applications for the 2026 IFPDA Book Award are now closed.

Click here for the Guidelines

Application Closed

2026 Winner

Karamu Artists Inc. : Printmaking, Race, and Community

Britany Salsbury and Erin Benay

Contributions by Richard J. Powell, Jacqueline Francis and Curlee Raven Holton

Cleveland Museum of Art

An exploration of the rich history of printmaking at Cleveland’s Karamu House, a center of Black arts, culture, and community since 1915

Karamu House, founded as a settlement house in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1915, is one of the preeminent homes of Black arts, culture, and community in America. Noted for its theater program, Karamu House also hosts a rich legacy in the graphic arts. Printmaking workshops open to artists and community alike launched in the 1930s, allowing a young Langston Hughes—as one notable example—to experiment with print.

Linked with printmaking’s ethos of accessibility and democracy, a group including Elmer W. Brown, Hughie Lee-Smith, Charles L. Sallée Jr., and William E. Smith—some of the most prominent Black printmakers of the WPA era—founded Karamu Artists, Inc. Reproductions of works by such artists are accompanied by essays situating the prints, the artists, and this locus of Black arts and culture in the histories it shaped. These writings are complemented by an interview with printmaker and Karamu alumnus Curlee Raven Holton.

2026 Winner

Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850

Edina Adam and Jamie Gabbarelli

Getty Publications

Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum + The Art Institute of Chicago

The first volume to chart the rich and reciprocal relationship between drawing and printmaking from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.

While often viewed and studied separately, drawings and prints have always been closely intertwined. They facilitated and generated the production of one another, and in some instances, clear distinctions between the two dissolved. Many artists created drawings specifically intended for translation into print, and an even greater number used prints as a training tool, copying from them to hone drawing skills. This reciprocal relationship goes even deeper, however, as innovative artists made fascinating hybrid works that blurred the boundaries between the two media, pushing against modern definitions and hierarchies.

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2025 Winner

The Radical Print: Art And Politics In Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Esther Chadwick

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

This volume argues for printmaking in Britain as the most exciting, innovative, and critically engaged field of artistic production in the late eighteenth century. Moving the print from the margins to the centre of the study of art history, this new critical study demonstrates how print responded to the acceleration of historical events, the polarisation of public discourse, and the sense of a world turned upside down in ways that traditional artistic media could not.

2025 Winner

Terry Winters: The Printed Work, A Catalogue Raisonné

Richard H. Axsom

Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Across four decades of his work, Terry Winters has been examining, in various iterations, the relationships between modernist abstraction, information systems, and the architecture of the natural world. While predominantly a painter, Winters is also known for his drawing and printmaking. Each of these different media furthers his overall project where mark making is seen as a pictorial process, and where each medium is used to reveal new subjects and possible meanings.

2024 Winner

A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries

Ed. Lauren Rosenblum, Christina Weyl

Hirmer Publishers

This volume explores the understudied impact of Margaret Lowengrund (1902–1957) – a visionary leader, organiser and critic within the mid-twentieth century printmaking community – and the vibrant New York print workshop/gallery she founded, "The Contemporaries". The book expands histories of 1950s printmaking by showing Lowengrund and The Contemporaries to be a vital nexus in the mid-century print field, placing them within a constellation of contexts including organised labour, feminisms and entrepreneurship, international exchange, and making the modern print.

2024 Winner

The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg's Library of Prints

Holly Borham

Blanton Museum of Art

Beginning in the early 1960s, with only the meager budget of a part-time art history professor, Leo Steinberg (1920–2011) amassed a collection of more than 3,500 prints that spans the medium’s five-hundred-year history in the West. Akin to books on a shelf, Steinberg’s prints formed a visual library that shaped his scholarship in fundamental ways. His collection, incorporating the work of artists both famous and obscure, illuminates his claim that in the era before photography, prints functioned as the “circulating lifeblood of ideas,” disseminating figures, compositions, and styles across boundaries of geography, time, and medium.

2018

Hiroshige and Eisen: The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido

Andreas Marks and Rhiannon Paget

Taschen

Published 2017

2017

The Print Before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550-1820

Antony Griffiths

The British Museum

Published 2016

2015

Holland on Paper in the Age of Art Nouveau

Clifford S. Ackley

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Published 2014

2018

The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints 1770-1850

John Ittmann

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Published 2017

2016

Corita Kent and the Language of Pop

Susan Dackerman

Harvard Art Museums and Distributed by Yale University Press

Published 2015

2014

New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish: Rembrandt

Compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers; edited by Ger Luijten

Sound and Vision Publishers

Published 2013

AUC Art Collective + IFPDA Internship Program

The Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective prepares undergraduate students for careers in the visual arts. The collective is comprised of three schools --- Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse, and Spelman College --- united by the world’s oldest and largest association of historically black colleges and universities and a shared vision that innovation + art = change. The IFPDA has partnered with the AUC Art Collective to develop a professional internship program which launched in the summer of 2022 with a student from Spelman College who received an internship at BORCH Editions and Gallery in Berlin and Copenhagen.

2022:

Spelman College + BORCH Editions and Gallery, Berlin, DE

2023:

Spelman College + Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, CA
Spelman College + Tandem Press, Madison, WI

2024:

Spelman College + L'-Atelier Galerie A. Piroir, Montreal, Canada

Clark Atlanta University + Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, CA

Morehouse College + Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, Munich, Germany

2025:

Spelman College + Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, CA

Spelman College + David Tunick, Inc., New York, NY

Clark Atlanta University + Two Palms Press, New York, NY

Detail, Amy Sherald (AUC alumna), Hope is the thing with feathers (The little bird), 2021
Color screenprint on coventry rag. Image courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

Curatorial Internships

Recognizing the importance of early career exposure to prints, the IFPDA Foundation aims to empower print curators to cultivate the next generation of scholars, curators, dealers, and specialists in the field of fine prints.

Each year, the IFPDA Foundation funds curatorial internships in museum print collections. Host institutions are awarded funding based on their ability to provide an intern with object-based experience in the collection under the guidance of one or more experienced print specialists. More information can be found in the Guidelines.

Applications for 2026 are now open until March 20, 2026.

2019

THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART

Intern: Jordan Hillman

2019

HARVARD ART MUSEUMS

Intern: Thea Golding

2018

FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS

Intern: Eric Birkle

2017

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Intern: Kylie Fisher

2019

THE BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART

Intern: Claire Spadafora

2019

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON

Intern: Nathaniel “Nate” Bench

2018

KRANNERT ART MUSEUM

Intern: Jamillah R. Gabriel, MLIS, MA

2017

CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM

Intern: Sophie Wein

2019

RUTH & ELMER WELLIN MUSEUM OF ART

Intern: Mary Bei Prince

2018

THE BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART

Intern: Ariana Ray

2018

SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART

Intern: Reilly Shwab

2017

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

Intern: Chyna Bounds

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Richard Hamilton Acquisition Prize
Presented by ChampionScott

Through the generosity of ChampionScott Partners, the Richard Hamilton Acquisition Prize provides $10,000 for a museum’s acquisition of one or more prints from any period at the IFPDA Print Fair. In naming the prize, ChampionScott Partners honors the late Richard Hamilton as a tribute to the artist’s profound influence on their own appreciation of prints and to acknowledge his impact on generations of printmakers.

Applications for 2026 are now open.

Image: Richard Hamilton Picasso's Meninas, 1973 Hard-ground, soft-ground and stipple etching, open-bite and lift-ground aquatint, engraving, drypoint and burnishing on Rives paper. Courtesy of Cristea Roberts Gallery.

2025 Recipient: Asheville Art Museum

Established by artists and incorporated in 1948, the Asheville Art Museum is committed to being a vital force in community and individual development and to providing life-long opportunities for education and enrichment through the visual arts. Furthering its mission to engage, enlighten, and inspire individuals and enrich community through dynamic experiences in American Art of the 20th and 21st centuries, the Museum serves local residents and visitors and is a place of education, exploration, and inspiration, an advocate for the arts and artists, an economic engine, and the preeminent arts resource for the 24 counties that comprise Western North Carolina (WNC) and beyond.

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Curatorial Travel Grant Program

The IFPDA Foundation Curatorial Travel Grant Program provides funding ($2,000) for institutionally based print curators to attend the IFPDA Print Fair held in New York City. The dates for 2026 are April 9-12 at the Park Avenue Armory.

This event represents the largest annual convening of international print scholars, collectors, gallerists, artists, and curators as well as presenting a unique opportunity for in person viewing of works of art spanning the full 550+ years of printmaking.

Candidates are invited to complete an online application and attach a CV along with information about their institution’s print collection and plans for future acquisitions.

Recipients will be asked to submit documentary proof of travel (e.g. plane/train tickets, hotel receipts etc.) and a brief report within two months following their travels to New York.

Applications for 2026 are now open.

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