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PRINT MONTH 2020

The 2021 calendar of events for Print Month will be released in September. In the meantime, we invite you to catch up on any programs you might have missed last year from the calendar below.

October 7, 2020

Wednesday

12 noon EDT

Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship

Co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints with support from the IFPDA Foundation.

The Print Collector and the Printseller

Antony Griffiths, Former Keeper, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum 


Introductions by Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and David Tunick, President, IFPDA.

October 12, 2020

Monday

12 noon EDT

Image Activism; Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Street Art

Join artists David Barthold and Wardell Milan, and IFPDA Member and  print scholar, Armin Kunz for a history of printmaking as protest  followed by a wide-ranging conversation about the power of images,  current street art practice, and the much-talked-about postponement of  the Philip Guston retrospective. 

October 15, 2020

Thursday

12 noon EDT

BORCH Editions and Print Studio (Copenhagen): A Virtual Studio Visit and Conversation

Join Niels Borch Jensen, Founder of BORCH Gallery & Editions, for a behind-the-scenes look at new large-scale photogravures and aquatints by Julie Mehretu in progress at BORCH Editions.

October 20, 2020

Tuesday

12 noon EDT

2020 IFPDA Foundation Book Award ---The Renaissance of Etching

Join us for a conversation with contributors Catherine Jenkins, Independent scholar; Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Freyda Spira, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Moderated by David Tunick, President, IFPDA.

October 23, 2020

Friday

12 noon EDT

A Closer Look: Prints Then & Now

Co-organized by the Print Council of America and the International Print Center New York (IPCNY), this series pairs a print curator with an artist from IPCNY’s exhibition Living in America to share insights through close looking at a selection of prints from their respective curatorial and studio practices.

Modernity, Machines, Modern Life: Images of Everyday Life from Interwar Britain to the Great Migration

Jennifer Farrell, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 


Yashua Klos, artist

October 28, 2020

Wednesday

12 noon EDT

Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship

This series was co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints with support from the IFPDA Foundation.

Interview with collectors Johanna and Leslie Garfield and Jordan Schnitzer

Jennifer Farrell, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 


Introduction by Jenny Gibbs, Executive Director of the IFPDA and the IFPDA Foundation

October 31, 2020

Saturday

12 noon EDT

Durham Press (Pennsylvania): Virtual Studio Visit and Conversation

Ann Marshall and master printers

October 8, 2020

Thursday

12 noon EDT

ULAE: A Virtual Studio Visit and Conversation

Larissa Goldston and master printers

October 13, 2020

Tuesday

1 PM EDT

Perspectives on Diversity in American Printmaking

Introduction by Valerie Wade, Director, Crown Point Press 


Moderated by Karin Breuer, Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco

The late nineteenth-century prints of Mary Cassatt

Marc Rosen, Marc Rosen Fine Art

A dealer's perspective on women printmakers active during the early 20th century, at the WPA/Federal Arts Projects and Atelier 17

Daniel Lienau, Annex Gallery

Ideas around diversity during the American print renaissance narrative, as represented by June Wayne and a generation of women printer/publishers

Diana Gaston, Tamarind Institute

Working with contemporary Black artists at Paulson Fontaine Press

Rhea Fontaine, Paulson Fontaine Press

October 16, 2020

Friday

12 noon EDT

A Closer Look: Prints Then & Now

Co-organized by the Print Council of America and the International Print Center New York (IPCNY), this series pairs a print curator with an artist from IPCNY’s exhibition Living in America to share insights through close looking at a selection of prints from their respective curatorial and studio practices.

Form through Darkness: The Works on Paper of Jean-Jacques Lagrenée and William Villalongo

Rena M. Hoisington, Curator and Head of the Department of Old Master Prints, National Gallery of Art 


William Villalongo, artist

October 21, 2020

Wednesday

12 noon EDT

Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship

Co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints with support from the IFPDA Foundation.

Heinz Berggruen and the Postwar Print Market

Blair Asbury Brooks, Ph.D. candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY 


Introduction by Samantha Deutch, Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Art Reference Library

October 26, 2020

Monday

12 noon EDT

Black Women of Print: A Virtual Studio Visit and Conversation

Join us for a conversation and virtual studio visits with the founder and artists of Black Women of Print (BWoP). BWoP was founded in 2018 by Tanekeya Word to promote Black women printmakers who have been underrepresented in the discipline of printmaking.


Tanekeya Word, Founder, Executive Director, Black Women of Print

Leslie Diuguid, artist

Delita Martin, artist

Introductions by Ann Marshall, Durham Press.

October 29, 2020

Thursday

12 noon EDT

Tandem Press (Madison, WI): A Virtual Studio Visit and Conversation

Join us for a virtual studio visit and conversations with artist Jeffrey  Gibson, director Paula Panczenko, curators Sona Pastel-Daneshgar and  Myszka Lewis, Studio Manager/Master Printer Jason Ruhl, and master printers Patrick Smyczek and Joe Freye who  will discuss works on view in the gallery from the IFPDA Fine Art Print  Fair. Artist Jeffrey Gibson will speak about his current project with  Tandem Press.

October 9, 2020

Friday

12 noon EDT

Prints and Politics: Print Study Day at the Met, in Collaboration with the IFPDA

Print Study Day is organized annually by the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with the IFPDA.

Fake News: Dutch Broadsides as Attack Ads, Propaganda, and Lying Pictures in the Seventeenth Century

Maureen Warren, Curator of European and American Art at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Campaigning for the Presidency: Political humor in Early American Caricature Prints

Allison M. Stagg, independent scholar

Urgent Images: Chicanx Graphic Arts, 1965-Now

E. Carmen Ramos, Acting Chief Curator and Curator of Latinx Art; and Claudia Zapata, Curatorial Assistant of Latinx Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

October 14, 2020

Wednesday

12 noon EDT

Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship

Co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints with support from the IFPDA Foundation.

Booksellers and the International Distribution of Prints from Antwerp in the Early Seventeenth Century

Karen Bowen, Independent Art Historian, Antwerp 


Introduction by Louisa Wood Ruby, Head of Research, Frick Art Reference Library, in charge of the Center for the History of Collecting, Scholars’ Program, and Digital Art History Lab.

October 19, 2020

Monday

12 noon EDT

Mixografia (Los Angeles, CA): A Virtual Studio Visit and Conversation

Shaye Remba

October 22, 2020

Thursday

12 noon EDT

Crown Point Press (San Francisco, CA): A Virtual Studio Visit and Conversation

Valerie Wade, Director, Crown Point Press, and master printers

October 27, 2020

Tuesday

12 noon EDT

2020 IFPDA Foundation Book Award --- The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York

Christina Weyl, author, independent historian 


Jennifer Farrell, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

October 30, 2020

Friday

12 noon EDT

A Closer Look: Prints Then & Now

Co-organized by the Print Council of America and the International Print Center New York (IPCNY), this series pairs a print curator with an artist from IPCNY’s exhibition Living in America to share insights through close looking at a selection of prints from their respective curatorial and studio practices.

Murder, Malice, and Mayhem, in the 18th Century and Today: Responses in Graphic Media

Elizabeth M. Rudy, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums 


Mark Thomas Gibson, artist

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