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APS News Posted: 10/10/2022
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

SAVE THE DATE! APS Annual Members Meeting and Cocktail Hour

New York, NY, United States
Please join APS President ​​Elisa Germán and Vice President Galina Mardilovich on Friday, October 28, 2022, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM for the APS Annual Members Meeting to learn about APS's work over the past year and to hear a preview of upcoming events and initiatives in 2023. Or, just stop by to say hello to other APS members! There will be a cash bar open for guests.

VIP Lounge (mezzanine level, across from the River Pavilion entryway)
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street, River Pavilion, New York, NY 10001
APS News Posted: 10/01/2022
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Apply now for the APS Intaglio Printmaking Workshop for Early-Career Curators and Scholars (July 24–28, 2023)

Minneapolis, MN, United States
The Association of Print Scholars (APS) is currently accepting applications for the second of its two-part series of intensive hands-on printmaking workshops for emerging scholars and curators, which is generously funded by The Getty Foundation’s initiative, The Paper Project: Prints and Drawings Curatorship in the 21st Century. This five-day workshop will be dedicated to intaglio techniques (etching, drypoint, engraving) and will be hosted in Minneapolis, MN, in partnership with the Highpoint Center for Printmaking and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

A thorough comprehension of various printmaking methods is critical to producing scholarship and exhibitions on these media. Yet, many early-career print curators and scholars lack such practical experience as they embark on their careers due to competing professional and academic demands that make it difficult to enroll in a semester-long printmaking course. With the technical intricacies of printmaking difficult to grasp through text alone, an intensive workshop provides an invaluable ​technical and material knowledge of printmaking that will not only contribute to, but also enhance, a print curator and scholar’s understanding of a work’s content, intention, and aesthetic. The aim of this workshop is to further ​prepare participants to better communicate these complex techniques in an accessible language to a general museum audience and contribute new personal insight to the field.

Ten early-career curators and scholars will be selected to participate in the workshop, which will be held in Minneapolis, MN, between July 24 and July 28, 2023. The intensive program will include a visit to MIA’s Herschel V. Jones Print Study Room to examine a selection of intaglio prints from the museum’s collection. Participants will also engage in hands-on work in drypoint, engraving, and etching at the Highpoint Center studio as well as explore the Highpoint’s facilities, library, galleries, and print room. A day will be devoted to print identification, including a second visit to MIA's Study Room to scrutinize variant intaglio techniques (aquatint, mezzotint, etc.). The workshop will conclude with Highpoint staff leading demonstrations of other intaglio techniques as informed by participant projects and a final seminar and reflection led by APS organizers.

Applications to the workshop are open to candidates who have a graduate degree (or equivalent experience), but must be within 10 years of receiving their terminal degree. Preference will be given to early-career curatorial professionals (curators, curatorial or research assistants/associates, postdoctoral fellows), although advanced graduate students and independent scholars with a long-held demonstrated interest in printmaking and curatorial practice will also be considered.

APS is committed to supporting the professional development of a diverse and inclusive community within the field of print scholarship and strongly encourages candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.

Travel, accommodation, and meal expenses will be covered.

To apply, please submit the following documents via an online application form at the link below.
The application requires:
- A brief statement (500 words max.) describing your research and how it would be enriched by a workshop on intaglio techniques
- A current CV or resume
- One letter of reference (sent directly to workshops@printscholars.org)
Please note that for full consideration, all materials, including the reference letter, must be received by the workshop organizers no later than November 1, 2022.

Successful applicants will be notified by December 1, 2022.

The workshop will be organized and led by current APS President, Dr. Elisa Germán, and APS Workshop Coordinator, Dr. Sarah Bane.
Relevant research areas: Engraving, Etching
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APS News Posted: 09/29/2022
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Apply now to serve as an APS officer

New York, NY, United States
The Association of Print Scholars (APS) seeks officers to serve for the upcoming two year term: January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2024.

Anyone is welcome to serve! If you are interested, please submit an application via the form linked below. The deadline to submit is October 14, 2022.
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The following positions are open:

- Vice President
- Treasurer
- Secretary
- Membership Coordinator
- RSA (Renaissance Society of America) Coordinator
- CAA (College Art Association) Coordinator
- Program Coordinator(s) [seeking 2-3 officers]
- Grants Committee [seeking 4 officers]
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If you have any questions, please reach out to APS at info@printscholars.org.

Qualified candidates will be contacted by the APS President and Vice President by November 1, 2022.

Please Note: Per APS's By-Laws, the Vice President and Treasurer officer positions are subject to an APS-wide election, which will be held later this fall.

APS also welcomes nominations for a new Director-at-Large. We are currently seeking nominations and self-nominations for this position, with an election to be held later this fall.

The Director-at-Large is a member of the APS Board and is responsible for the general oversight of the organization, reviewing finances and ensuring that APS complies with its mission and By-Laws. The time commitment is minimal, requiring only the Director's attendance at the annual board meeting, which is held via video or teleconference. The term for this role is three years, from January 1, 2023, until December 31, 2025.

Please email nominations or self-nominations to info@printscholars.org by October 14, 2022.
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APS News Posted: 06/06/2022
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

APS Events on YouTube

New York, NY, United States
View the latest videos on APS's YouTube channel, now featuring videos of the virtual programming from April and May, including "Turning a Curiosity into a Collection: Mark Baron & Elise Boisanté on Hindu God Prints" and the APS Distinguished Scholar Lecture. We have also assembled a playlist of older programming.

Follow the link below to go to our YouTube channel, and comment to let us know what you think.
Relevant research areas: South Asia, East Asia
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APS News Posted: 12/06/2021
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Stephanie Porras Awarded the 2021 APS Publication Grant

New York, NY, United States
Relevant research areas: North America, Western Europe, East Asia, Renaissance, Baroque, Engraving
APS News Posted: 12/18/2020
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Save the date! Exclusive Event for Members of Print Council of America & Association of Print Scholars with Artura.org (21 Jan 2021)

Philadelphia/Online, PA, United States
APS invites you to join Jan Howard (RISD) and Shelley Langdale (National Gallery of Art), along with Brandywine workshop founder, Allan Edmunds, and Brandywine Advisory Committee member and website designer, John Cardone, who will be hosting an introduction to an exciting new resource under production by the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia -- the Artura database of diverse contemporary prints (https://www.artura.org/).

Thursday, January 21, 2021, 7 pm EST/ 6 pm CST / 5 pm MST / 4pm PST

A Zoom link will be sent out with a reminder in January, but we anticipate that our January calendars will fill up quickly after the holidays and wanted to be sure to let you know about this exciting opportunity

This presentation is offered to members of the Print Council of America and the Association of Print Scholars specifically.

We hope you will join us!
APS News Posted: 12/15/2020
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Cristina S. Martinez and Cynthia Roman Awarded the 2020 APS Publication Grant

New York, NY, United States
Relevant research areas: North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, 18th Century, 19th Century, Engraving, Etching
APS News Posted: 11/30/2020
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

The Graphic Conscience (APS-Sponsored Session at the CAA Annual Conference, Online, 10 Feb 2021)

New York/Online, NY, United States
Please join the Association of Print Scholars for "The Graphic Conscience", the APS-sponsored session convening at the 2021 CAA Annual Conference in New York.

“The Graphic Conscience” calls for papers addressing transhistorical and transnational case studies of print as a tool for raising public consciousness. This session critically considers the ethics of print, inherent in the medium’s daily use-value beyond its function as a rarified fine-art object in a museum. Democratic in nature, print communicates through text and/or image as well as through its multiplicity. In considering the “graphic conscience” – or the social responsibility – of print, this session will celebrate the medium’s impacts on everyday life. The framework for this session responds to the thesis of the 2011 publication Philagrafika: The Graphic Unconscious, which reflected on the formal characteristics of print and argued for its assimilation within art at large. Papers can address a wide range of art historical as well as visual and material culture examples, including but not limited to Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses of 1517; the seventeenth century etchings of Jacques Callot’s Les Grandes Misères de la guerre; the didactic agitprop of Taller de Gráfica Popular in late 1930s Mexico; and the commercially-produced postcards mailed to Americans by the Centers for Disease Control in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Prints of all techniques – from Renaissance woodblocks to contemporary risograph zines – are eligible. Papers engaging post-colonial critique and/or topics from outside North America and Europe are strongly encouraged. Practice-based papers by artists, giving us a perspective from inside the studio or printshop, are particularly welcomed.

Session Chair:
Ksenia Nouril, PhD, Jensen Bryan Curator, The Print Center, Philadelphia

Presentations:
"Conscience and the Market: Frans Hogenberg's Current Events Prints and their Legacy"
Thomas Brown

"The Violence of the Cut: Wood Engraving, Illustrated Newspapers, and the Rendering of Civil War Atrocity"
Anne Strachan Cross, University of Delaware

"Graphic Solidarity: Krakow's Antibiennale of 1984"
Wiktor Komorowski, The Courtauld Institute of Art

"Re-Telling the Story: A Collaboration with Alberta Whittle"
Sandra De Rycker

"Expanding the Boundaries of Printmaking: Nuria Montiel’s Imprenta móvil (Mobile Press)"
Alberto McKelligan Hernandez

Please visit the 'External Link' below for more information about attending this online session.
Relevant research areas: Book arts, Collograph, Digital printmaking, Engraving, Etching, Letterpress, Lithography, Monoprinting, Papermaking, Relief printing, Screenprinting
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APS News Posted: 09/30/2020
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Call for Nominations: APS Vice President & Treasurer, 2021–22

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Dear Members,

The Association of Print Scholars seeks nominations for the positions of Vice President and Treasurer for a two-year term beginning in January 2021 through December 2022.

In accordance with our by-laws, these roles are elected positions to be filled biannually via an online election decided by APS members. The Vice President is a crucial member of the organization’s daily operation, who will shadow the incoming President, in preparation for their future term in that role, but will also have a major voice in planning for the future of APS. In addition, the Treasurer oversees the organization's finances and serves as critical support for the APS President and Vice President. Attached please find detailed descriptions of each position.

We invite all members to nominate someone or self-nominate via email (info@printscholars.org) by Saturday, October 10, 2020. We will contact all nominated individuals to confirm their willingness to run in the election.

Please feel free to email the current President, Alison Chang (president@printscholars.org), and Vice President, Elisa Germán (vicepresident@printscholars.org), with any questions.

Thank you for your participation.
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APS News Posted: 01/28/2020
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Registering the Matrix: Printing Matrices as Sites of Artistic Mediation (APS-Sponsored Session at the CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, 14 Feb 2020)

Chicago, IL, United States
Please join the Association of Print Scholars for "Registering the Matrix: Printing Matrices as Sites of Artistic Mediation", the APS-sponsored session convening at the CAA Annual Conference in Chicago on Friday, February 14, 2020 at 4:00pm.

Session Chair:
Jun Nakamura, University of Michigan

Session Description:
Printing matrices often have storied pasts. Rembrandt’s plates were reprinted, reworked, otherwise altered, and sent under the roller until little of the artist’s hand remained. One eighteenth-century printer etched over a Rembrandt plate in the name of restoration before cutting it down into smaller plates; another printed Rembrandt’s plates with masks, plate tone, and in combination with other plates in order to create new compositions; and Rembrandt himself repurposed a plate by Hercules Segers. Beyond Rembrandt, Gauguin’s woodblocks were printed in editions by himself, by printer Louis Roy, and posthumously by Pola Gauguin. The resulting editions vary widely in inking, coloring, and support. Contemporary artists’ prints produced by publishers like Gemini G.E.L or Crown Point Press are often as much a product of collaboration with the printers as of the artist’s singular hand. While the Blocks, Plates, and Stones conference held at the Courtauld in 2017 did much to shed light on the matrix itself, examining the contributions of printers and publishers adds complexity to notions of authorship and illuminates processes particular to the medium; and looking at the afterlife and reuse of matrices provides evidence of artistic encounters, exchanges, and processes. This session addresses the printing matrix as site of mediation, across time and geography.

Presentations:
"Restrike as restoration: a Diachronic Analysis of The Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I"
Jesse Noah Feiman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"'With ink, a rag, and his two arms': Inking the Matrix in Nineteenth-Century France"
Laurel Garber, Northwestern University

"Edouard Manet's The Absinthe Drinker: The Evolution of an Etched Plate and Prints"
Elissa Watters, Yale University

""The Machine That Makes the Art": Printmaking as Conceptual Practice at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Lithography Workshop"
Rachel Lena Vogel, Harvard University

Conference Room:
Hilton Chicago - 3rd Floor - Williford B

Please visit the 'External Link' below for more information.
Relevant research areas: North America, Western Europe, Renaissance, 19th Century, 20th Century, Contemporary, Etching, Lithography
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