APS invites submissions for its 1 1/2 hour professional session at the 2016 College Art Association Annual Conference, which will take place February 3-6, 2016 in Washington, DC.

We welcome proposals on any aspect of the history, theory, or practice of printmaking from any chronological or geographic category. Preference will be given to proposals that call for a wide array of papers covering printmaking's rich history.

Details:

Individual or co-chaired sessions are welcome
Proposals should include a title for and a short description of the session (no more than 500 words)
Chairs and co-chairs must include CVs with submission
Chairs and co-chairs must be active members of CAA and APS at the time of the annual conference.

Deadline for proposals: May 1, 2015

To ask questions or submit a proposal, please email info@printscholars.org.

Department of Prints and DrawingsThe Art Institute of Chicago:

Paid summer internship opportunity in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, generously funded by the IFDPA.

The posting and application instructions can also be found on the Art
Institute's HR website: http://www.artic.edu/employment

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the successful candidate will be named by the end of April.

The new magazine “Celebrating Print”, which will focus on Central and Eastern European printmaking, is looking for proposals for scholarly articles and essays. The magazine will be published by KADS NY twice a year. Its mission is to reinvigorate public interest in the art print and the process of printmaking in Central and Eastern Europe, to map its evolution, and to join the printmaking community worldwide in a discussion on contemporary prints.

Visit the website www.kadsny.com for more information. You can also download submission guidelines.

Please contact Katerina Kyselica (Director of Celebrating Print Competition and Principal of KADS NY) at katerina@kadsny.com if you would like to contribute. Deadline for proposals for April 2016 issue: October 31. Copy date: first week of January 2016.

This conference will explore the rich world of printmaking and its development in Scotland in the 18th Century. While a good deal of research exists on printmaking in England there is very little on the relationships between artists, printmakers, publishers and collectors in Scotland.

Besides contributions on the work of individual artists, we seek in particular to explore the development of a market for prints. We invite papers on all aspects of the subject, but we are especially interested in contributions that will address the following questions:

- Who were the engravers and etchers, the teachers, publishers, dealers, collectors of prints and suppliers of materials?
- How was the print trade between Scotland, London and the continent supported?
- Were there printmakers working outside Edinburgh and Glasgow?
- Where could artists see the work of other printmakers?
- What kind of prints were they making: landscapes and prospects,
antiquities, portraits, satires, drawing manuals, book illustrations and book plates, trade cards?
- In what ways did prints contribute to the 'discovery' of Scotland, the Jacobite cause?

To submit a proposal for a 20-minute presentation, please send an abstract not exceeding 300 words and a one-page CV to: avg1@st-andrews.ac.uk

A selection of papers will be edited for publication by the conference organisers.

For further details, contact: Ann Gunn, School of Art History, University of St Andrews: avg1@st-andrews.ac.uk

This conference examines the relationship among artist, action, surface, and reception within the modernist tradition. Technical, critical, formal, and historiographic analyses of the notion of the pictorial surface, and what can be “implanted” and “read,” will be considered. The “Surface,” which connotes everything from Clement Greenberg’s “material plane” to the site of performance, simulation, commodity, and materiality, is contested within, and central to, theories of modernism. What lies behind the surface? How do surface/form and meaning/motif interrelate? How does art history as a discipline intersect with conservation, and material history to re-imagine the surface? How have media and screen cultures, and recent theories of visuality and cognition, reconstituted the surface?

The conference is organized into three broad conversations: Vision, Touch, and Materials.

Papers are invited from art historians, philosophers, conservators, material historians, film and media theorists, neuroscientists, literary theorists, and others who consider the meaning and dynamics of the pictorial surface in modernism, and who are interested in the surface as a discursive arena.

Proposals for this conference must include (in English)
a) an abstract of maximum 300 words summarizing your argument;
b) your academic resume; and
c) your full contact information including email.

Papers will be 20 minutes in length and will be followed by discussion.

Contributions should be sent to elsebet.kjerschow@nasjonalmuseet.no by 1st May 2015. You will be notified by 1st June 2015 of your acceptance.

The UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum has been awarded a grant from the International Fine Print Dealers Association to fund one paid summer internship for 2015. This internship offers a rare opportunity to work directly with works of art from the Grunwald Center, one of the country’s most important collections of prints, drawings, and photographs comprising roughly 40,000 objects from the Renaissance to the present. During the course of the 8-week internship, the selected candidate will work under the supervision of the Grunwald Center staff to catalog areas of the Grunwald Center collection and prepare a digital project in conjunction with this research. Interested candidates who possess some combination of relevant museum experience and/or graduate-level coursework related to prints and drawings should apply by sending a resume and cover letter to resumes@hammer.ucla.edu and including “IFPDA Internship” in the subject line.

Term length and compensation:
Part time (20 hours per week) for 8 weeks; selected candidate will receive a $2,500.00 one-time stipend at the beginning of their internship term.

Please send a resume and cover letter to resumes@hammer.ucla.edu by April 20, 2015. Include “IFPDA Internship” in the subject line. Interested applicants should directly address their experience with and interest in working with prints and drawings and their goals for undertaking this internship, and they should indicate which target area best matches their interests and abilities. Applicants selected for an interview will be notified by early May.

In the framework of its annual cycle of manifestations on Italy and i Fiamminghi, the Academia Belgica organizes in collaboration with the Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome a summer school on Printmaking in Italy and the ‘Flemish’ contribution. Internationally renowned specialists will guide you in the world of print making, lecture on the relation between Venetian and Roman print businesses, and discuss specific topics related to Renaissance and Baroque prints. Among the programme teachers you will find Christopher Witcombe, author of Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome
(2008), Ann Diels, Rubens specialist and responsible of the New Holl- stein volumes on the Collaert family, Johannes Stradanus specialist Ales- sandra Baroni and Giovanna Sapori, author of Fiamminghi nel cantiere Italia 1560-1600 (2007).

Candidates‘ Profile (12 max)
MA/PhD Students in History, Art History and related disciplines
application
http://knir.it/en/register/form-courses. html.

Deadline: 15 April 2015
subscription fee
400 € : accomodation / visits / material (without accomodation: 100 €)
grants

3 grants of 200 € awarded on the basis of the letter of motivation
more info info@academiabelgica.it

Teaching languages
English Italian

Teachers
Prof. dr. W. Bracke (ULB/KBR/AB)
Prof. dr. A. Diels (VUB)
Prof. dr. H. Hendrix (KNIR)
Prof. dr. G. Sapori (Roma Tre)
Prof. dr. A. Baroni (University of Rochester) Prof. dr. C. Witcombe (Sweet Briar College) Istituto centrale per la grafica

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