Announcing the Recipient of the 2026 APS Travel Grant

The Association of Print Scholars is pleased to award its fourth annual Travel Grant to Jessica Braum. The grant, in the amount of $500, will support her travel to present a paper at the College Art Association’s 114th Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.

Braum will deliver her paper, “Contextualizing Transnational Practices: Leveraging Art Historical and Digital Humanities Methodologies to Amplify Marginalized Narratives” as part of the session “Visibility as Resistance: Amplifying Marginalized Narratives” on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.     

Bio: Jessica Braum (she/her) holds an MA in Printmaking from the University of the Arts London and is currently a doctoral candidate in Art History at Temple University. Her dissertation examines Kim Lim’s print and sculptural practices through decolonial frameworks, reassessing postwar British and Southeast Asian art histories. Engaging feminist theory and multidisciplinary methods, she studies artists working across geographic and cultural contexts. Jessica serves as co-chair of the College Art Association’s Committee on Research and Scholarship and as Graduate Representative for the Society of Contemporary Art Historians. Her writing has appeared in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, ASAP/Journal, Sequitor, and Passage.

Learn more about the APS Travel Grant here.

Please contact grants@printscholars.org with any questions regarding this announcement.