Keenly aware of the power of time to illuminate and destroy, Goya sought unprecedented ways to capture for posterity the human condition, both as he observed it and as his creative imagination transformed it. His innovative mastery of varied techniques and media gave him exceptional freedom to express the complexities and contradictions of the world around him. This talk will examine a selection of paintings, prints, and drawings to reveal some of the ways Goya described a world that is both new and familiar.

Stephanie Loeb Stepanek is curator emerita at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, with which she has been associated since her graduation from Wheaton College, Norton, MA. She is co-curator of the MFA exhibition Goya: Order and Disorder (October 12, 2014-January 19, 2015) and was the coauthor of The Prints of Lucas van Leyden and His Contemporaries (1983), accompanying an exhibition held at the MFA and the National Gallery of Art. Stepanek worked closely with the noted Goya scholar and former MFA curator of prints and drawings Eleanor Sayre on the exhibitions The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya, 1974, and Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment, 1989, coauthoring the catalogue. Stepanek has worked on numerous other exhibitions at the MFA, including Albrecht Dürer, Master Printmaker (1971), Winslow Homer (1977), The Pleasures of Paris (1991), and French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers (1998). She has contributed to an array of scholarly publications and conferences since the 1970s.

Moderated by Ira Goldberg, Executive Director, The Art Students League of New York. Panelists David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Robert Newman, President of the Old Print Shop; Michael DiCerbo, President of SAGA, and Susan Teller, Susan Teller Gallery, will discuss the history of SAGA in relationship to The Art Students League.

APS is pleased to announce its inaugural lecture, supported in part by the International Fine Print Dealers Association:

"Why Study Prints Now?"
Peter Parshall, Former Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Friday, September 25 at 4 PM
Martin Segal Theater at The Graduate Center City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Please save the date and RSVP (recommended but not required) via the link below or at info@printscholars.org.

Janice Oresman will give a tour and talk of "True Monotypes," which she guest curated for the IPCNY. The exhibition is on view until May 30.

International Print Center New York
508 West 26th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
​212-989-5090

Claire Van Vliet is a fine artist, illustrator, and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, CA, in 1955. Van Vliet has been crafting intricate handmade books in the Northeast Kingdom for decades. Her vision and craftsmanship is internationally respected. For this artist, the medium is the message.

What role has printmaking had in political activism and revolutionary moments in U.S. history, and how have artists responded to social injustice through poster designs? Favianna Rodriguez, whose prints are featured in the Graduate Center’s James Gallery exhibition Left Coast: California Political Art, will present her work, and archivist and librarian Lincoln Cushing will speak on the history of political prints in California. Their talks will be followed by a discussion moderated by the exhibition’s curator, Nadiah Fellah, James Gallery Mellon Fellow and student in the Graduate Center’s PhD Program in Art History.