Andrew Saluti and Theresa Engelbrecht Awarded the 2026 APS Collaboration Grant
The Association of Print Scholars is pleased to award its ninth annual Collaboration Grant to Andrew Saluti of Syracuse University and Theresa Engelbrecht of Bucknell University’s Samek Art Museum for their project, The Printers’ Marks and Chops Archive.
The grant, in the amount of $1000, will support the development and migration of the project site from the existing Omeka-based database to a streamlined site built with Collection Builder, a set of flexible, static web templates for creating digital collection websites. This transition will allow for more dynamic interaction with published materials and greater control over the sharing and organization of collected resources.
The Printers’ Marks and Chops Archive [PMC Archive] is a free, web-based, searchable resource for private collectors, curators, researchers, and museum collections professionals to aid in the identification of the blind stamps, chop marks, and others marks on fine art prints and other works on paper. The PMC Archive leverages a network of institutional collections managers and curators, auction houses, dealers, and publishers to advance the visual database. The collected data includes biographical and descriptive information, known collaborators and artists, major institutional collections, and web resources. The site is searchable by a framework for visual analysis: shape, form, and/or distinguishing characteristics and all the aforementioned fields.
Too often marginalized, marks and chops are an essential and tangible way to determine who may have worked with an artist on a print. Given the collaborative nature of printmaking, this information is invaluable to better understand the network of publishers, printers, and artists, and interpret their influence on one another.
Andrew J. Saluti is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Museum Studies at Syracuse University. With over twenty years of professional practice in both archival and art collecting institutions, Saluti’s research and pedagogy centers on curatorship, collections practice, and exhibition design and installation. He is the author of The Preparator’s Handbook: A Practical Guide for the Prep and Installation of Collection Objects (2023, Rowman & Littlefield) and is currently writing the catalogue raisonné of the prints of Louisa Chase.
Theresa Engelbrecht is the Registrar and Exhibition Manager at Bucknell University’s Samek Art Museum. She uses and advocates for collection management practices that increase access to and engagement with works of art while preserving them for the future. She loves making connections between art in the permanent collection and interdisciplinary scholarship across Bucknell’s campus and beyond. Her own research centers on collections and collecting, with particular emphasis on twentieth century prints and print collecting.
For their time and expertise, APS would like to sincerely thank this year’s jurors: Emily Friedman (Allen and Kelli Questrom Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art), Jamie Kwan (Assistant Curator of Drawings, Prints and Graphic Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum), and Elizabeth Rudy (Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Harvard Art Museums).
Please contact grants@printscholars.org with any questions regarding this announcement. To learn more about the APS Collaboration Grant and its next year cycle, please click here.