The 37th Congress of the International Paper Historians will take place in Oslo, Norway, on September 9 -14, 2024. The conference, entitled Analysis of Paper, will include studies on the identification, characterization and analysis of historic paper, and new techniques for recording watermarks and other physical characteristics of paper. Both in-person and remote access are offered. Register by transfer or credit card through The National Museum portal. The organizers and co-sponsors, The National Museum, The National Library of Norway and MUNCH (The Munch Museum) hope to see you in Oslo!

Note: The deadline for signing up is August 1st!

Please see the attachments for the final programme and the registration form.

For the organizing committee,
Kari Greve

CALL FOR PAPERS
International interdisciplinary conference
Université de Bourgogne, 19-20 June 2025
BOOK OF NATURE, NATURE OF BOOKS
PRACTICES OF FEMALE BOTANISTS
Keynote speakers:
Anne Hodge (Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery, Dublin)
Valérie Chansigaud (Historian of Science, Independent Scholar and Author)
The research centres TIL (Université de Bourgogne) and EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) are organizing a bilingual (French-English) international interdisciplinary conference on the role of women in the development of botany as part of visual, manuscript and print cultures, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period.
We propose to foster discussions relating to the interconnections between natural science history, print and book culture, visual and gender studies as well as ecocriticism. Papers may focus on a wide variety of case studies pertaining to any geographical area, from herbals to non-fiction writing, from publishers’ and libraries’ archives to museum collections, or from the garden to the diary and to the printed book. They will address the role of women as amateur or professional botanists, gardeners, members of clubs, illustrators, diarists, writers, publishers, and in any other capacity where their individual practices bear on forms of manuscript and print artefacts.
The following themes will be of particular interest:
- The book of nature and its legacy
- Itineraries of Women and Plants
- Records, archives and publicity
- Circulation of manuscript and print artefacts
- Spaces of practice and display
- Botany, illustration and nature writing
- Amateur and professional science
- Female crafting and the intermedial circulation of models

Full CFP accessible at: https://til.u-bourgogne.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CFP-final-EN-FR-botanique-IC-2025.pdf

Please send a 300-word abstract and a biobibliography (in English or French) before 31st October 2024 to bookofnature2025@gmail.com
Notification: 15th December 2024. The programme will be finalized in January 2025.
After the conference, submission of papers for publication: 30th September 2025.
Scientific Committee: Dr Marie-Charlotte Anstett (CNRS, Université de Bourgogne); Dr Anna Cabanel (KU Leuven); Dr Kathleen Davidson (University of Sydney); Rodolphe Leroy (Université de Bourgogne); Dr Katherine Manthorne (City University of New York); Dr Clélia Nau (University Paris-Cité); Dr Ann Shteir (York University, Canada).

Organizing committee: Sophie Aymes, Marie-Odile Bernez, Ali Hatapçı, Candice Lemaire (Université de Bourgogne), Valérie Morisson (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3).

Diana Scultori (1547–1612), also known as Diana Mantuana, was the first documented woman in Europe to have a professional career as a printmaker. Born in the Italian city of Mantua, Diana came from a family of artists with professional connections to the ducal court of the Gonzaga dynasty. Like many printmakers in this period, she specialized in engraving renditions of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by other artists, which required the creativity and technical acumen needed to translate an image from one medium to another.

Diana was eventually drawn to Rome, where ambitious printmakers went to make their fortunes. Rome attracted travelers from across Europe eager to see ancient artifacts, holy sites, and work by the leading artists of the time. As an enterprising printmaker, Diana carefully selected religious, antiquarian, and mythological subjects that resonated with these audiences. Placing her work in dialogue with other printmakers in her orbit, this exhibition highlights Diana’s contributions to the dynamic world of printmaking in late-1500s Rome.

As part of ZEITGLEICH - ZEITZEICHEN, around 50 portfolios are currently traveling throughout Germany in joint exhibition projects by the state and regional associations of visual artists, giving printmakers nationwide visibility. Printmakers from the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt and the Künstlerbund Dresden were also invited to present their positions on experimental printing to the public. The results can now be seen at the Anhaltischer Kunstverein Dessau. They show the range of printing possibilities - from classic printing processes to new, experimental techniques.

Working from the perspective of an Osage person, Norman Akers' use of maps of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma is central to his printmaking as direct references to traditional, tribal homelands. While the contemporary maps record places the Osage live, they also trace a history of settler colonialism upon ancestral lands. Using imagery such as elk, birds, architectural structures, roads, tree stumps, lunch boxes, and flying saucers inhabited by historical figures found on US currency, Akers records a history of removal and change over Osage homeland while reconstructing a new sense of place in the (23) recent monoprints chosen for this exhibition.

Norman Akers is an Osage artist from the Greyhorse District community in Oklahoma. He has been an associate professor of art teaching painting and printmaking at the University of Kansas since 2009, and continues to maintain an active exhibition schedule around the country.

I Saw It: Francisco de Goya, Printmaker is open at the Norton Simon Museum. It is the first exhibition on the West Coast to show the prolific artist Francisco de Goya’s (1746-1828) four major print series: Los Caprichos (1799), Los Desastres de la Guerra (c. 1810-15), La Tauromaquia (1815-1816), and Los Disparates (c. 1815-23). The Disasters of War is represented by a rare working proof set, one of only two in the world (82 prints). Select working and trial proofs, bound volumes and hand-colored impressions from the Caprichos are also exhibited.
In the small focus gallery on the museum’s main level is I Saw It: Modern Artists Respond to Goya is a supplementary exhibition that examines Goya’s legacy as reflected in the work of Yinka Shonibare, and the prints of Enrique Chagoya, Pablo Picasso, Leon Golub, and Andy Warhol. Chagoya’s work presents contemporary interventions to Goya’s prints, Picasso and Shonibare make direct references to them, and Warhol and Golub take on similar formal approaches and themes.

Please join us Friday, May 3, from 10-noon EST for a free virtual symposium we have organized as part of our Getty Paper Project.
Do share this link with anyone who might be interested.

Speakers and presentation topics:
• “The Problems of Medium Specificity According to S. R. Koehler”
Katie Larson, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, Baylor University
• “New Mediums, New Directions: Reproducing Raphael in the Age of Lithography”
Rebecca Szantyr, Print Specialist, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, New York Public Library
• “Between the Ink and the Plate: Printmakers Troubleshooting with Color”
Fenna Engelke, Morse Fellow for Advanced Training in Conservation of Works of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• “Process Papers, Shading Mediums, and Mechanical Tints: An Exploration of Drawing Materials Made for Photomechanical Reproduction”
Sarah Mirseyedi, PhD, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, RISD Museum
• “Lines, Dots, Masses, and Combinations: Sylvester Koehler’s Intaglio Categories”
Jennie Waldow, Luce Curatorial Fellow, Hammer Museum
• “Cataloging Secrets: Koehler’s Outline of Etching”
Emily Arthur, Associate Professor of Printmaking, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• “Just Flong Enough: Two Hours of Light, Relief, and Pressure”
Nora M. Rosengarten, PhD candidate, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
• “Dotting the Photomechanical Landscape: Frederick Ives’ Original Process and Sylvester Koehler’s 1892 Exhibition”
Benjamin Levy, PhD candidate, Joint Program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art

This project is supported by Getty through the Paper Project initiative.

"ReBloom" is the first biennial of the world's leading organization for papermakers and paper artists, the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA). The exhibition will showcase 100 works of Paper Art by artists from 40 countries around the world between April 21 and August 11, 2024. The exhibition will take place on the premises of Hagen Castle in Bremischen, Germany.

In everyday life, paper is mostly used as an information carrier or packaging material. However, it is also amazingly flexible and versatile as an artistic medium in its own right. It is in the nature of paper that it can be reused and recycled, thus embodying a permanent life and offering countless possibilities for reuse and changeability. The exhibition theme "ReBloom", developed by IAPMA Exhibition Coordinator and Curator Ângela Barbour, revolves around paper's inherent potential to bring to life the memories and experiences it has absorbed. The IAPMA Biennial "ReBloom" will feature artworks that illustrate this and tell stories of renewed life, an awakening that can be experienced with paper and the fibres of which it is mostly made.

The 48th annual meeting of the American Historical Print Collectors Society will take place in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Williamstown, a charming college town, located in the shadow of Mount Greylock, the highest point in the Berkshire Mountains of northwestern Massachusetts, is home to Williams College and the Clark Art Institute. The surrounding area abounds historic associations and cultural attractions, including the homes and studios of artists Daniel Chester French and Norman Rockwell and authors Hermann Melville, William Cullen Bryant and Edith Wharton. Nathaniel Hawthorne completed The House of the Seven Gables while living in a little red house now located on the grounds of the Tanglewood Music Center, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Other nearby attractions include Hancock Shaker Village, the Berkshire Atheneum, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMOCA).

The AHPCS has arranged special tours of several of the region’s outstanding cultural collections for this year’s annual meeting, as well as lining up a program of first-rate speakers: Georgia Barnhill, Robert Emlen, Michael McCue, Rebecca Szantyr, and Christina Michelon

For more information and to register (by April 15th) please visit our website: https://ahpcs.org/williamstown/

Enjoy more than 130 woodblock prints and painted scrolls from one of history’s most vibrant artistic eras.

After centuries of conflict and war, Japan’s Edo period (1603–1868) was a time of peace, stability, and economic growth. Members of the ruling class patronized artists, merchants, entertainers, and courtesans in major cities like Tokyo (then called Edo), Kyoto, and Osaka. Sharing a visual culture and appreciation for the transient pleasures of life, such diverse groups comingled in a metropolitan melting pot known as ukiyo, or “floating world.” There, a new art genre emerged: Ukiyo-e. These “pictures of the floating world” depict the lifestyle, pleasures, and interests of the urban population— from samurais, geishas, and kabuki actors to boat parties, palaces, and lush landscapes.

Not to be missed, this presentation marks the first time the Worcester Art Museum is touring its famed collection of Japanese artworks.