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.
In late Spring, APS invites thematic proposals for its sponsored panel at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference. 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.
Submission materials include a title, 250-word abstract, and 2 page CV to be sent to the caacoordinator@printscholars.org.
Deadline for panel proposal submissions closed on 20 April 2026. Deadlines for CAA 2028 will be updated in March 2027.
CFP: APS panel at CAA 2027
Calls for Papers are now open for the APS-Sponsored Panel at CAA 2027:
MORE THAN ONE: COLLABORATIVE VENTURES IN PRINT PUBLISHING ACROSS TIME AND PLACE
Chairs: Judy Hecker, Print Center New York and Sarah Howard, Graphicstudio, University of South Florida
ABSTRACT:
Printmaking is an inherently collaborative venture, bringing together artists, printmakers, and publishers. Nowhere is this nexus of relationships more apparent than in the format of the print portfolio, as demonstrated by the groundbreaking suite published by artist William Villalongo and urbanist Shraddha Ramani in 2025, which brought W. E. B. Du Bois’s data visualizations—originally exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exposition—into the present day. Exhibited at Print Center New York in 2025, Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century is an extensively researched portfolio also notable for its unusually collaborative structure: its thirty works were produced with the cooperation of six printer-publishers across the United States, from Brooklyn and Tampa to Minneapolis and Berkeley.
Taking this portfolio as a point of departure, this panel invites contributions that consider the print portfolio or suite, the illustrated book, and the artist’s book as significant sites for—and drivers of—experimental artistic creation and collaboration. Papers may focus on a theme, social or political critique, a group of artists, single or multiple techniques, and/or one or more printers or publishers. Proposals spanning geographies and time periods are especially encouraged.
The panel seeks to emphasize unusual and visionary artistic and organizational publishing ventures, while exploring the decisions, negotiations, and orchestrations that make them possible. Ultimately, the panel underscores how printmaking and print publishing have encouraged bold developments in art and have functioned as pervasive and essential contributors to ambitious bodies of work that reach audiences beyond traditional art channels.
Session will present: On location
Deadline for paper proposals is August 30. All paper proposals must be submitted through the CAA platform:
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Session18489.html
Visit the CAA website for the full conference program.