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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.

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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).

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.

2022

Flint Institute of Arts

Glass on Paper: Vitreograph Prints

To support the exhibition Glass on Paper: Vitreograph Prints

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.

2022

FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI ONLUS

Census of Italian Renaissance Woodcuts

To support an exhibition based on a digital archive cataloguing woodcuts and woodblocks produced in Italy from the earliest known use of the medium up to around 1550.

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 IFPDA Print Fair in March of 2025.

2025 IFPDA Book Award applications are now closed.

Click here for the Guidelines

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2025 Winner

The Radical Print: Art And Politics In Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Esther Chadwick

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

This volume argues for printmaking in Britain as the most exciting, innovative, and critically engaged field of artistic production in the late eighteenth century. Moving the print from the margins to the centre of the study of art history, this new critical study demonstrates how print responded to the acceleration of historical events, the polarisation of public discourse, and the sense of a world turned upside down in ways that traditional artistic media could not.

2025 Winner

Terry Winters: The Printed Work, A Catalogue Raisonné

Richard H. Axsom

Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Across four decades of his work, Terry Winters has been examining, in various iterations, the relationships between modernist abstraction, information systems, and the architecture of the natural world. While predominantly a painter, Winters is also known for his drawing and printmaking. Each of these different media furthers his overall project where mark making is seen as a pictorial process, and where each medium is used to reveal new subjects and possible meanings.

2024 Winner

A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries

Ed. Lauren Rosenblum, Christina Weyl

Hirmer Publishers

This volume explores the understudied impact of Margaret Lowengrund (1902–1957) – a visionary leader, organiser and critic within the mid-twentieth century printmaking community – and the vibrant New York print workshop/gallery she founded, "The Contemporaries". The book expands histories of 1950s printmaking by showing Lowengrund and The Contemporaries to be a vital nexus in the mid-century print field, placing them within a constellation of contexts including organised labour, feminisms and entrepreneurship, international exchange, and making the modern print.

2024 Winner

The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg's Library of Prints

Holly Borham

Blanton Museum of Art

Beginning in the early 1960s, with only the meager budget of a part-time art history professor, Leo Steinberg (1920–2011) amassed a collection of more than 3,500 prints that spans the medium’s five-hundred-year history in the West. Akin to books on a shelf, Steinberg’s prints formed a visual library that shaped his scholarship in fundamental ways. His collection, incorporating the work of artists both famous and obscure, illuminates his claim that in the era before photography, prints functioned as the “circulating lifeblood of ideas,” disseminating figures, compositions, and styles across boundaries of geography, time, and medium.

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

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

Detail, Amy Sherald (AUC alumna), Hope is the thing with feathers (The little bird), 2021
Color screenprint on coventry rag. Image courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

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 2024 are now closed.

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

2019

RUTH & ELMER WELLIN MUSEUM OF ART

Intern: Mary Bei Prince

2022

CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM

Intern: Eric Hughett

2022

VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART

Intern: Briauna Berner

2019

THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART

Intern: Jordan Hillman

2019

HARVARD ART MUSEUMS

Intern: Thea Golding

2022

MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON

Intern: Dasol Kim

2019

ACADEMY ART MUSEUM

Intern: Willow Podraza

2019

THE BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART

Intern: Claire Spadafora

2019

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON

Intern: Nathaniel “Nate” Bench

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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.

Applications for 2025 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.

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.

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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:

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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.

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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:

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 2025 are March 27-30 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 2025 are now closed.

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