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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
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.
Online submission typically opens in January each year and must be completed by April. Please download the Grants Guidelines for complete details.
The 2025 Foundation Grant application is now closed.
2025
Vanderbilt University Museum of Art
Paper Backs: Hidden Stories of European Prints from the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art
To support programs associated with the Fall 2025 exhibition "Paper Backs: Hidden Stories of European Prints".
2025
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
El Lissitsky and the Russian avant-arde
To support a publication on the occasion of a colloquium on Russian avant-garde prints.
2025
American Federation of Arts
Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White—Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum
To support the national run of "Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White—Prints" from the Rembrandt House Museum across the US and to provide educational programs on the art of etching.
2024
The Print Center
Rebecca Gilbert: A Dance of Death in Two Parts
To support the upcoming exhibition "Rebecca Gilbert:
A Dance of Death in Two Parts", a new series of eighty-two wood
engravings.
2025
Tate Liverpool
Chila Kumari Singh Burman: Demolish Serious Culture
To support the realisation and vital conservation needed to deliver the first major retrospective of Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE, Tate Liverpool’s first major exhibition after reopening in 2027.
2025
Milwaukee Art Museum
Seeking Revelation: German Romantic Prints and Drawings
To support exhibition expenses associated with "Seeking Revelation: German Romantic Prints and Drawings".
2024
Self Help Graphics & Art
5th Annual Biennial Printmaking Summit
To support the 5th Biennial
Printmaking Summit, which will focus on the macroeconomics of
printmaking education.
2024
Print Center New York
Krishna Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower
To support Print Center New York’s forthcoming exhibition "Krishna
Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower" that demonstrates Reddy’s importance to
the printmaking field and the material and conceptual approach to
the groundbreaking viscosity technique he developed.
2025
Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–1870
To support implementation of the exhibition titled "Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–1870".
2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson
To support a retrospective exhibition of the art of John Wilson (American, 1922–2015) opening in September 2025, and co-organized with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
2024
RISD Museum
Process Work: Print, Photography, and the Industrialization of the Image
To support a speaker series accompanying the upcoming
exhibition "Process Work: Print, Photography, and the
Industrialization of the Image".
2024
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Learning to be a Printmaker, a Philadelphia Tradition
To present a lecture on the history and pedagogy of the Print
Study Seminar followed by a panel discussion on the legacy of
how printmaking has been taught in Philadelphia.
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 Collectors and Curators Breakfast during the IFPDA Print Fair in October.
Applications for the IFPDA Foundation Book Award are now closed.
2023 Winner
Paper Knives Paper Crowns: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic
Maureen Warren et. al.
Krannert Art Museum
This volume explores the satirical visual strategies that early modern Netherlandish printmakers—such as Joan Blaeu, Romeyn de Hooghe, Willem Jacobsz and Claes Jansz Visscher—used to memorialize historical events, lionize (or demonize) domestic and international leaders, and instigate collective action.
While some of their prints employ visual puns that even the illiterate could enjoy, others were captioned in Latin, French or Dutch, prompting educated elites across Europe to consider the relationship between text and image in earnest. Published for an exhibit at Krannert Art Museum, Paper Knives, Paper Crowns provides a chronological arc and thematic overview of Netherlandish political prints, addressing multiple types of printmaking as well as the medium’s relationship to other art forms, engaging with art historical scholarship and studies of early modern political history and theory in the process.
2025
Honorable Mention
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition
Andreas Marks
Tuttle Publishing
Published 2024
2025
Honorable Mention
From Michelangelo to Callot: The Art of Mannerist Printmaking
Blanka Kubíková, Alena Volrábová
National Gallery in Prague
Published 2024
2022
Honorable Mention
Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Andreas Marks
Taschen
Published 2021
2022
Honorable Mention
Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything
Timothy Clark
The British Museum Press
Published 2021
2021
Honorable Mention
Scene Through Wood: A Century of Modern Wood Engraving
Anne Desmet
Ashmolean Museum Publishing
Published 2020
2020
The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York
Christina Weyl
Yale University Press
Published 2019
2025
Honorable Mention
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
Cristina S. Martinez , Cynthia E. Roman
Cambridge University Press
Published 2024
2023
Paper Knives Paper Crowns: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic
Maureen Warren et. al.
Krannert Art Museum
Published 2022
2022
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya
Rena M. Hoisington
Princeton University Press
Published 2021
2021
Prints and Their Makers
Phil Sanders
Princeton Architectural Press
Published 2020
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
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
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
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 2025 are now closed.
2025
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Intern: TBA
2025
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: TBA
2024
ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM
Intern: Karli Snyder
2024
CEDAR RAPIDS MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: Frank Sicignano
2025
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: TBA
2025
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: TBA
2024
SHELDON SWOPE ART MUSEUM
Intern: Alia Sarris
2024
WEISMAN ART MUSEUM
Intern: Annabelle Knowles
2025
ESKENAZI MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: TBA
2024
ELEANOR D. WILSON MUSEUM AT HOLLINS UNIVERSITY
Intern: Alyssa Lawhorn
2024
FLINT INSTITUE OF ARTS
Intern: Cynthia (Cindy) Parsel
2024
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
Intern: Grace Hanselman
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.
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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Jordan Schnitzer Award for Excellence in Printmaking
The Jordan Schnitzer Award for Printmaking Excellence is a grant (currently $25,000) in celebration and recognition of exceptional creativity in the field of fine art prints through artistic expression, technical innovation, and elevation of the medium.
The recipient is selected by an independent advisory committee. The 2022 committee was comprised of Jennifer Farrell, Curator, Department of Prints & Drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Leslie Jones, Curator, Prints and Drawings, LACMA; and Susan Tallman, independent curator.
JORDAN SCHNITZER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRINTMAKING RECIPIENTS:
2022: Vija Celmins
2019: Mel Bochner and Matthew Day Jackson
2018: Ida Applebroog and Lothar Osterburg
Image:
Vija Celmins, Constellation-Uccello, 1983
4-color aquatint/etching.
Courtesy of the artist and Gemini G.E.L.
About the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation:
Sparked by a keen interest in the inventiveness for printmaking and carrying on a family legacy of collecting art, Jordan Schnitzer began collecting prints in 1998. Today, the collection exceeds 20,000 works as one of the country’s largest private print and art collections. The Foundation has organized over 160 exhibitions and has had art exhibited at over 150 museums. The Foundation also contributes to the field of artistic scholarship through the publication of exhibition brochures, texts, and print catalogue raisonnés.
Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Lecture Series
Established with the generous support of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, this annual program honors the unique ways in which contemporary artists use printmaking in their artistic practice. It has been presented each year at the IFPDA Print Fair since 2014.
Mel Bochner (2014)
Kiki Smith (2015)
Nicole Eisenman (2016)
Leonardo Drew (2017)
Christiane Baumgartner (2018
Jim Dine (2019)
2022 Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Lecture Honorees:
Enrique Chagoya
Enrique Chagoya was born and raised in Mexico City. Drawing from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the late 70’s, and also in Europe in the late 90’s, Chagoya juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols in order to address the ongoing cultural clash between the United States, Latin America and the world as well. He uses familiar pop icons to create deceptively friendly points of entry for the discussion of complex issues, examining the recurring subject of colonialism and oppression that riddles contemporary American foreign policy.
Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist focusing on themes relating to perspective, identity, commodity, media and popular culture. His work incorporates recognizable icons from advertising or branding campaigns to explore their ability to reinforce generalizations developed around race, gender and ethnicity. Thomas created one of his most iconic series in 2006, B®anded, in which he superimposed bodies of Black men with the Nike swoosh logo recalling the history of branding slaves in America as well as the literal and figural objectification of Black male bodies in contemporary culture. Thomas’ practice has evolved to incorporate a variety of media including silkscreen, mirrors and retroreflective vinyl —an industrial material rarely used in the arts—to challenge perspectives in his work, exploring 20th century protest images and often overlooked historical narratives.
About the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation:
Sparked by a keen interest in the inventiveness for printmaking and carrying on a family legacy of collecting art, Jordan Schnitzer began collecting prints in 1998. Today, the collection exceeds 20,000 works as one of the country’s largest private print and art collections. The Foundation has organized over 160 exhibitions and has had art exhibited at over 150 museums. The Foundation also contributes to the field of artistic scholarship through the publication of exhibition brochures, texts, and print catalogue raisonnés.
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.