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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 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 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