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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.
2024 IFPDA Foundation Grant applications are due April 14, 2024.
2023
Zimmerli Art Museum
“The Brodsky Center: 30 Years of Innovative Print Editions at Rutgers University."
We would use the grant to cover the cost of framing and matting the 90+ works-on-paper in the exhibition.
2023
Mead Art Museum: Amherst College
Collecting 101: Acquiring Art for the Mead
Support up to twelve college students in Collecting 101: a student-involved print acquisitions program at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.
2023
Graduate Theological Union
Geografias Paralelas
To bring the three printmakers of the Geografías Paralelas exhibition to the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA for two day-long programs focused on printing techniques, history, and meaning in Latinx art and community.
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.
2023
Gallery North
Matrix: Lining Up a New Generation of Printmakers
Providing the greater community with the opportunity to realize their artistic potential through printmaking.
2023
The Japanese Art Society of America
Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
JASA seeks support for the organization's 50th anniversary exhibition, Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, the first comprehensive exhibition of Meiji art in the United States that celebrates Japan's nonwestern modernity.
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.
2023
State University of Iowa Foundation
Video Interviews with Contemporary Printmakers from India
Complete the initial phase of editing approximately sixty videography interviews for an accompanying website.
2023
The Museum of Modern Art
New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching
To support New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching exhibition and catalogue.
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).
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.
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
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
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
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
2013
Estampas de la Raza
Lyle Williams
University of Texas Press
Published 2012
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
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 2023 are now closed.
2023
ELEANOR D. WILSON MUSEUM AT HOLLINS UNIVERSITY
Intern: Andre Favela
2023
THE BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: Julia Cohen
2022
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM
Intern: Eric Hughett
2022
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: Briauna Berner
2023
GRINNELL COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: Melena Johnson
2023
RISD MUSEUM
Intern: Gabrielle Patrone
2022
MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
Intern: Dasol Kim
2019
ACADEMY ART MUSEUM
Intern: Willow Podraza
2023
KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
Intern: tba
2022
THE BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART
Intern: Allison Marino
2022
STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE
Intern: Yuefeng Wu
2019
ACHENBACH FOUNDATION
Intern: Audrey Storm
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 Fine Art 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.
2024 Recipient: Museum Ludwig (GERMANY)
In contrast to royal collections, the Museum Ludwig owes its existence to the extraordinary dedication of private individuals, collectors, and donors. The museum's founding was marked by Peter and Irene Ludwig's donation of American Pop Art. Thirty years earlier, Josef Haubrich's post-World War II art donation to the City of Cologne in 1946, considered lost for a long time, and containing paintings by persecuted and deemed "degenerate" artists, became a symbol of hope for the citizens, and later formed the cornerstone of the museum collection.
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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 2024 are February 15-18 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 2024 are now closed.
2024
TELFAIR MUSEUMS
Awardee: Anne-Solene Bayan
2024
HAYWARD GALLERY TOURING
Awardee: Gillian Fox
2024
MUSEUM LUDWIG
Awardee: Eboa Itondo
2024
COLLEGE LA RENAISSANCE
Awardee: Dr. Marly Joseph Desir
2024
MUSÉE D'ART ET D'HISTOIRE DE GENÉVE
Awardee: Marie-Eve Celio
2024
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART
Awardee: Holly Borham