Announcing the Recipient of the 2025 APS Travel Grant

Bartholomäus Strahowsky, *Man, Woman, and Animal can happily drink and bathe without harm*, 1738, engraving, in S. Hahn, *Psychroluposia renovata*, 1738 (Schweidnitz: [s.n.], in 4°), Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden.

The Association of Print Scholars is pleased to award its third annual Travel Grant to Aleksander Musiał. The grant, in the amount of $500, will support his travel to present a paper at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

Musiał will deliver his paper, “Treasure in Clay: Emblematic Sculpture and Visualising the Unknown in Siegmund Hahn’s Psychroluposia renovata” as part of the session “Environmental Art History: Ecosystems in Early Modern Painting and Sculpture II” on Friday, March 21, 2025.

A person standing in front of a wall with lion heads

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Aleksander (Olek) Musiał is Edinburgh College of Art’s Teaching Fellow in Architectural History specialising in 18th -century works on paper in Eastern Europe. A graduate from Warsaw, Cambridge, and Princeton, he pursued research through fellowships and visiting positions at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, the British School at Rome, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. Olek’s articles appeared in the PUAM Record, and the Oxford Art Journal, for which he was awarded the HGSCEA Emerging Scholar Publication Prize.

Learn more about the APS Travel Grant here.

Please contact grants@printscholars.org with any questions regarding this announcement.