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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.
Please download the Grants Guidelines for complete details.
2026
RISD Museum
Friendship, Fellowship, and Surimono Exchanges: A Critical Encounters Symposium
To support a symposium that will take place in September 2026 alongside the upcoming major exhibition The Artistry and Reunion of Two Surimono Albums, an international collaboration with the Chiba City Museum of Art.
2026
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc.
Riso Print Portals, Until We Get to the Core
To support an upcoming print commission to be featured as part of a group exhibition, titled "Until we get to the core", which explores the relationship between humanity and ecology through material exploration and emotional connection to the inherent kinship with the natural world we urgently need to mend and carry forward.
2026
Des Moines Art Center
A Portrait is a Mirror: New Objectivity
To support a gallery guide and a gallery talk with a visiting scholar offered in conjunction with the exhibition "A Portrait is a Mirror: New Objectivity", which will be free to visitors.
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".
2026
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Dyani White Hawk: An Artist Talk on Printmaking Practice and Collaboration
To support a lecture on the work of Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) with a focus on her print editions and her printmaking practice at several American print centers over the past fifteen years.
2026
Katonah Museum of Art
Understanding the Collagraph Process of Belkis Ayón in the Katonah Museum of Art exhibition, Intermittent Islands
To support the interpretive and educational activities focused on the collagraph prints by Belkis Ayón in the Katonah Museum of Art exhibition "Intermittent Islands."
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.
2026
Parrish Art Museum
Abstract Expressionism: The East End, 1940 to Today
To support the Museum's inclusion of prints by Marina Adams, James Brooks, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, and Jack Youngerman—these works aim to capture printmaking's continued place within abstract art from the mid-century to today.
2026
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji
To support efforts to present for the first time in the UK, the complete set of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai, Japan’s most celebrated printmaker.
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".
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.
2026
Honorable Mention
Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints
Edited by Andrea Liguori, with contributions by Karin Breuer and Starr Figura
Yale University Press
Published 2025
2026
Honorable Mention
Printing Colour 1700-1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions
Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage
The British Academy / Liverpool University Press
Published 2025
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
2026
Honorable Mention
The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp
Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof
Harvey Miller Publishers
Published 2025
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
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 and drawings, the IFPDA Foundation provides funding for curatorial internships in museum print and drawing collections. [NB: Internships may be offered in summer, spring, fall, or winter with the proviso that they must be completed within 12 months of the date of funding approval.]
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.
2014
LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Intern: Alison Van Denend
2014
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: Alice Phillips, Ph.D.
2014
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
Intern: Katie Applegarth
2014
RISD MUSEUM
Intern: Maggie C. North
2014
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Intern: Elisabeth C. Rivard
2014
ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM
Intern: Sara B. Green
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 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 closed.
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.
2026 Recipient: The Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
As the largest collection of graphic art in Germany and one of the leading institutions of its kind worldwide, the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin was founded in 1831 and is today part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin under the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage. Within this institutional complex, it serves as a reference collection for works on paper and as a center of excellence for draftsmanship, printmaking, manuscript illumination. At the same time, it functions as an innovative site for exhibitions devoted to works on paper.
Curatorial Travel Grant Program
The IFPDA Foundation Curatorial Travel Grant Program provides funding ($2,000) for institutionally based print and drawings curators to attend the IFPDA 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.