Abstract forms converge
Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70, Part II

Jun 7 – Oct 25, 2026

Since its establishment in 1956 with a gift of prints from Los Angeles collector Fred Grunwald, the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts has evolved into one of the nation’s foremost collections of works on paper. Over the decades, the Grunwald Center’s holdings have expanded through donations and acquisitions, and now comprise more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books dating from the Renaissance to the present. Housed at the Hammer Museum since 1994, the Grunwald Center fosters learning and discovery through its collection, which is regularly presented in exhibitions and made accessible in its dedicated study room. This exhibition marks the 70th anniversary of the Grunwald Center, celebrating its history through a selection of significant works that reflect the collection’s breadth and diversity. It will feature over 70 works by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Daniel Hopfer, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Utagawa Hiroshige, Winslow Homer, Käthe Kollwitz, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Judy Fiskin, Robert Heinecken, James Welling, Catherine Opie, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Julie Mehretu, James Turrell, Alison Saar, and Kara Walker.

Beginning in the 1980s, Tamarind embraced a philosophy of cultural diplomacy, recognizing printmaking's ability to foster dialogue, solidarity, and creative exchange across diverse communities. Tamarind Goes Global (1985-2020) examines how Tamarind Institute transformed from a national workshop into an internationally connected center for contemporary printmaking. Drawn from the Tamarind Archive Collection at UNM Art Museum and archival materials from the Center for Southwest Research, it highlights collaborations that encouraged artists from varied cultural and political contexts to explore their backgrounds and find common ground. Also on view for the first time are interviews with former and current directors, printers, and artists, and documentary film footage of the workshop's relocation from Los Angeles to Albuquerque.

Layered Lives gathers a constellation of Cuban women artists whose practices unfold within an aesthetic shaped by circulation, memory and embodiment. They work across diverse media and distinct artistic vocabularies, offering intimate and inventive perspectives on identity, spirituality, migration, and the lived realities of women in Cuba and its diasporas.
Drawing on hydrofeminist frameworks, Layered Lives foregrounds care, connection and the sustaining of self and others as central to contemporary Cuban art. Spanning sixty works from the last three decades, the exhibition situates each work within a “liquid perspective:” a mode of seeing that privileges relationality, collectivity and permeability over isolation and fixity.
Each work offers multiple points of entry, unfolding a labyrinth of layered narratives that immerse viewers in the complexities of Cuban subjectivity. In these practices, the sea’s tides resonate with cycles of labor and care; its depths hold what official histories have overlooked; its horizon evokes desires that traverse political and geographic borders. Within the exhibition, the female experience emerges not as a metaphor but as a deliberate mode of attention allowing silenced and subsumed stories to resurface as radical counter-histories.
Drawn from the Discoveries in Art Certilman Family Collection, the exhibition features the celebrated artists: Belkis Ayón (1967–1999), Ariamna Contino (b. 1984), Aimée García (b. 1972), Alejandra Glez (b. 1990), Elsa Mora (b. 1971), Rocío García Nuez (b. 1955), Mabel Poblet Pujol (b. 1986), Sandra Ramos (b. 1969), Adislen Reyes (b. 1983), and Linet Sánchez Gutiérrez (b. 1989)
The exhibition curated by Arianne Kolb and Sara Garzón with the assistance of Caroline Davis and Allison Westerfield.
This exhibition is organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.

This Is America: Selections from PAMM’s Collection marks the semiquincentennial––the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence––through artworks drawn from the permanent collection of Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Bringing together works by artists from diverse cultural backgrounds and across multiple time periods and media, the exhibition presents a multiplicity of perspectives on American history and identity. Featuring artists such as José Bedia, Judy Chicago, Alfredo Jaar, and Rashid Johnson, alongside Miami-based contemporaries including Eddie Arroyo, Thomas Bils, Gonzalo Hernández, and Sandra Ramos, This Is America situates national narratives within the cultural dynamics of Miami.

Professor Jenny Schmid (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) has been awarded the Mid America Print Council Outstanding Printmaker Award. She will be giving an artist talk and exhibiting her work at Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex from September 17–October 14, 2026. The conference "Printelligence" takes place October 7-10, 2026 at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Other featured speakers are Jennifer Roberts and Dario Robleto. Schmid's exhibition "Collaborating with Ghosts" will feature the folio “Disembodied/Reembodied: The Gaze and Dysphoria of Medical Images of Women’s Bodies'' that was created in collaboration with the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

This exhibition offers a journey through the creative universe of Sandra Ramos (Havana, 1969) through a selection of works articulated by her interest in art as a way of fabulating other Íthacas, projecting new possible places for the individual in the face of an unstable and turbulent world. From her early engravings, reflecting the economic, social, and ideological crisis of Cuba in the 1990s, to recent installations and video animations, her critical and poetic gaze on reality expands, revealing the complexities and contradictions of today's global environment.
In Dreaming of Another Ithaca, the "pioneer girl," from a small mound-island, extends a pencil pointing toward the horizon over which she draws the outlines of a new city. She thus traces an imaginary bridge that crosses the deep, dark, turbulent waters, shortening distances and bringing shores closer, believing in the value of art as an infinite space for human connection and a path toward freedom. Dreaming of another Ithaca’s yet to come.
Wendy Navarro / Curator

This year's Collections and Research Day (6 November) at the Society of Antiquaries of London is inspired by our extensive Prints and Drawings collection, and we invite early career researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for papers by 2 September. The conference will examine how images shape knowledge production and circulation, mediate encounters with lost and extant objects and buildings, and contribute to the study of the material past. We are delighted that renowned artist and Royal Academician Anne Desmet will be our keynote speaker. Please do share the call for papers with early career researchers who may be interested in applying.
Please email events@sal.org.uk with any queries.

Odilon Redon (1840–1916) is known for his enigmatic art that celebrated the beauty of nature and mined the dreamlike depths of the imagination. Featuring an exceptional group of charcoal drawings, lithographs, and pastels from Getty’s collection, this exhibition presents the French artist’s fantastical world of haunting darkness and luminous color. Discover Redon’s singular vision and his diverse sources of inspiration, from religion and mythology to literature and modern science.

Personal to Political highlights the pioneering work of Paulson Fontaine Press in Berkeley, known for championing African American artists. This traveling exhibition features prints by seventeen significant contemporary artists, including Edgar Arceneaux, McArthur Binion, Kerry James Marshall, Martin Puryear, and three generations of women from the Gee’s Bend Quilters.

Enjoy a conversation with Pam Paulson and Rhea Fontaine, owners of Paulson Fontaine Press, on Thursday, September 3. The talk will be held in the Chico State Recital Hall (Arts 150) from 5:30-6:30pm, followed by an opening reception from 6:30-7:30pm at The Turner.

Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press was organized by Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA.

This focused exhibition celebrates the PrintLab Artist Residency (2025–26) at Brandywine Workshop and Archives (BWA) in Philadelphia. An expansion of BWA’s Visiting Artist Residency Program, PrintLab enabled eight interdisciplinary artists to push the boundaries of printmaking. Working with collaborative printers Justine Ditto (BFA, PAFA, ’17) and Alexis Nutini, artists experimented with both traditional printmaking techniques and emerging technologies, including photolithography, woodcut, CNC routing, laser cutting, phototransfer, and animation. With rigorous attention to scale, color, materials, and layering, they explored themes of ancestry and memory, identity and mythology, diaspora and survival.

Find more information at the link below.