Annual APS Panels at CAA
Every year, the Association of Print Scholars invites thematic proposals for its sponsored panel at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference. The panel may be related to any period, theme, or aspect of print scholarship. We encourage proposals that transcend chronological or geographic boundaries, as well as those that engage current theoretical interests in materialism, archival theory, bibliographic studies, history of ideas, or social history, including feminisms and critical race studies.
APS is now inviting thematic proposals for its sponsored panel at the 2027 College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference to be held in New York, NY, 03-06 February. If you are interested in chairing a panel, please submit a title and 250-word (max) abstract that describes the subject of your session. Co-chaired proposals are welcome. Once the theme and chair of the panel are selected, the panel will solicit contributors through CAA’s open call. Chair or co-chairs must be members in good standing of APS and CAA.
If you are interested in chairing a panel, please submit a title, 250-word abstract, and 2 page CV to caacoordinator@printscholars.org. Deadline for submissions is 20 April 2026.
Please note:
The College Art Association’s Annual Conference is scheduled to take place in New York, however there is the possibility of a hybrid virtual component.
APS and print-related panels at CAA 2026
APS is sponsoring a session at the CAA Annual Convention 2026 in Chicago from February 18–21, 2026. Visit the CAA website for the full conference program.
CFP: APS-SPONSORED SESSION at CAA 2026:
Beyond Piranesi: Urban Representations in Contemporary Printmaking
Location: Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Williford B (Hybrid)
Time: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Chairs: Carlos Lozano Guillem and Helena Perez gallardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) codified a modern style of representing the city by inaugurating dramatic perspectives, bird’s-eye views, forced diagonals, and futuristic visions. For example, in his prints of Rome’s Campo Marzio and the Via Appia, Piranesi focuses on the sublime exaltation of ruin and antiquity, while revealing, as well, a discourse on architecture and the contemporary city. Piranesi’s style of printed images determined an aesthetic of later representations of modern architecture and urban spaces (Paris, London, Vienna,…). Nineteenth-century romantics and twentieth-century avant-garde multimedia artists, such as Sergei Eisenstein, marked the next generation of engravers who represented the contemporary city. After Piranesi, printed depictions of the modern city pull together nostalgia, nightmare, history, the exaltation of progress, and ruins—marking the past with ideas, as well, of a future.
This panel highlights print media’s role in the representation of urban and architectural transformations in large cities. We invite papers that bring forth the work of printmakers, and also institutional or personal projects, that analyze aspects related to the artistic change that engaged with the representation of the city, new perspectives in the representation of urban morphology, documentary or propagandistic intentions, and also questions around media and the issues that allow print scholars to establish a broad intercontinental conversation of urban representation in modern and contemporary culture.
PRESENTATIONS
Piranesi’s capital letters and their influence: from Basoli’s Alfabeto Pittorico to Hamilton’s Antiquités étrusques, grecques et romaines
– Patricia López, Universidad Complutense de MadridIn between Valparaíso’s ruins: technical and poetical approaches to three local printmakers. / Entre las ruinas de Valparaíso: acercamientos técnicos y poéticos a tres grabadores porteños
– Renata Sagredo Osorio, Taller La VetaSet Foot in Rome: Copperplate as Site and City
– John O’Donnell, University of Connecticut
Print-related sessions and papers
* Closer to the conference, this page will be continuously updated with other print-related papers and panels.
The Intra-active Printmaking Workshop
Saturday, February 21, 2026 – 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Private Dining Room 2 (Hybrid)
Chairs: Ruth Pelzer-Montada, The University of Edinburgh; Sandra De Rycker, The University of Edinburgh
Presentations:
Yewong Tenzin Dongchung, Brown University Library. “To Be Disciplined Into Artisans: Training at a Tibetan Monastic Woodblock Printing House (19th century).”
Miriam Hancill, Edinburgh College of Art. “Obdurate Matter? Unfolding potential within materials, apparatuses, and procedures of printmaking through speculative practice.”
Robin Klaus, Asheville Art Museum. “Making Prints, Doing Politics: Children’s Magazines and Anarchist Praxis in the Modern School Printshop.”
Martha Tuttle. “Rough and Tumble: Off Grid Printmaking in the Desert.”
The Agency of Artists: Through and Beyond Books
Saturday, February 21, 2026 – 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-4 (Hybrid)
Chairs: Kelly E. Chorpening, University of Nevada, Reno; Matthew L. Conboy, Slippery Rock University.
Presentations:
Yu (Renee) Jin, University of Rochester. “Meta-publishing: Asian Diasporic Networks and the Social Life of Railing Codex (2025).”
Amira Hanafi, Susquehanna University. “A polyvocal, people’s dictionary of the Egyptian revolution.”
April Sheridan, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. “Being Prepared: The Absurd Publications of the Beuyscouts of Amerika.”
Beyond the Page: Histories, Methods, and Futures of the Artists’ Magazine
Saturday, February 21, 2026 – 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Williford A
Chairs: Gwen Allen, San Francisco State University; Camilla Salvaneschi, Università Iuav di Venezia.
Presentations:
Natilee Harren, University of Houston School of Art. “The Scores Project: Digital Methodologies for Studying Experimental Scores and/as Artists’ Publications.”
Zachary Cahill, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry/University of Chicago. “Artists’ Magazine as Band: Portable Gray and the Musicality of Constituting Publics in the 21st Century.”
Lori Cole, New York University. “The Magazine as Museum.”
A selection of individual papers:
There are nearly 100 papers on print at CAA 2026. Here is a selection of them:
WEDNESDAY
Alanna Austin, “Multiples and Mark Making in Printmaking Pedagogy.” In Session Transformative Studio Practices through Creative Meaning-making. Wednesday, February 18, 2026 – 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Joliet Room.
Serena Caffrey, University of Arkansas School of Art. “Laying in Wait: Printing and Performing with Time.” In Session Time Out of Joint: Art Against Efficiency. Wednesday, February 18, 2026 – 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-8
THURSDAY
Niko Ruijia Ma, KU Leuven. “Versailles in Beijing: French “Cabinet du Roi” Prints in Late Seventeenth Century Qing Court and Society.” In Session Hybridity, Adaptability, and Exchange During the Long Eighteenth Century: Producing Global Aesthetics in Decorative Art and Design. Thursday, February 19, 2026 – 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM. Hilton Chicago – 8th Floor – Lake Huron.
Tianna H Uchacz, Texas A&M University. “Renaissance Ornament Prints, IIIF Image Annotation, and Hands-On Art History.” In Session Trends and Futures in Teaching Digital Humanities. Thursday, February 19, 2026 – 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM. Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-5.
Erin C. Giffin, Hamilton College. “Mutual Pilgrimage between Relic and Devotee: Giacomo Lauro’s Prints of Loreto.” In Session Road Trip. The art and material culture of communal travel routes. Thursday, February 19, 2026 – 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Private Dining Room 1.
Scott Ellwood, Grolier Club of New York. “Between Mamluk Manuscripts and Italian Printing: Hybridity in the First Arabic Printed Book.” In Session The Islamic Material Text: Local Traditions and Intercultural Dialogue. Thursday, February 19, 2026 – 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Private Dining Room 2 (Hybrid).
Buis, Kate. “Theatre Arts Department, University of Minnesota.” In Session Multi-Sensory Entanglements across the Early Modern World. Thursday, February 19, 2026 – 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Hilton Chicago – 8th Floor – Lake Ontario.
Virginia Raguin, “Glass gives Prints Light and Longevity.” In Session Stained Glass and the Mainstream: Reframing the Medium in Art History. Thursday, February 19, 2026 – 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – 8th Floor – Lake Ontario.
Christina Weyl, Gail Singer: Care, Collaboration, and the Labor of Printmaking
Thursday 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Williford B (Hybrid)
Brittany Ellis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The Sedimented Image: Transforming “Lac Asphaltite” into Historical Record and Photomechanical Print.” In Session Elemental Infrastructures in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Thursday, February 19, 2026 – 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-2.
FRIDAY
IfeOluwa Nihinlola, Emory University. “Gbẹ́nà-Gbẹ́nu: Susanne Wenger and the Paradoxes of Print in African Modernism.” In Session Methodological Approaches to Researching Modern Art by African Women Artists. Friday, February 20, 2026 – 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM. Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Astoria Room (Hybrid).
Marco Polo Juarez Cruz, California Polytechnic State University. “Paper as a cultural agent. Latin American printmaking portfolios and corporate patronage.” In Session The Politics of Provenance: American Practices of Collecting Global Art during the Twentieth Century. Friday, February 20, 2026 – 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-3.
Beril Sarisakal Erkent, Columbia University. “Weaving Print: Carpet Inscriptions and Political Economy in the Late Ottoman Empire.” In Session Modes of Inscription. Friday, February 20, 2026 – 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-2.
Melissa Benbow Flowers, Independent Scholar. “Edmonia Lewis in American Print Culture: 19th Century Artists and Self-Promotion.” In Session Edmonia “Wildfire” Lewis: To Sculpt a Life. Thursday, February 19, 2026 – 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Williford B (Hybrid).
SATURDAY
Julieta Pestarino, The J. Paul Getty Museum. “Between Pages and Lenses: The Legacy of Lola Álvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky in Mexican Printed Photography.” In Session What Women Can Do with a Camera in Latin America. Saturday, February 21, 2026 – 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-6.
Sarah Elisabeth Lund, Harvard University. “Risky Business: Female Artists and High-Stakes Print during the French Revolution.” In Session Bad Government: Art and Politics in the Eighteenth Century. Saturday, February 21, 2026 – 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Waldorf Room.
Cora Chalaby, University College London. “‘Ambiguity at Play’? Workshops of the American Print Renaissance.” In Session Rethinking the Twentieth-Century Workshop. Saturday, February 21, 2026 – 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM. Hilton Chicago – 8th Floor – Lake Ontario.