Ed Ruscha in conversation with Christophe Cherix, 2023. Photo by Annie Forrest.
MARCH 2025 PROGRAMMING
All talks will be held at the Park Avenue Armory.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28th
12:00PM Artist Talk | Christiane Baumgartner in Conversation with Elizabeth Rudy Presented by Print Center New York.
Christiane Baumgartner is best known for her monumental woodcuts based on her own film and video stills. Her work may be found in major public collections around the world including the Albertina, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, (Boston); Hammer Museum, and National Gallery Victoria, Australia. Christiane lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
Elizabeth Rudy is the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints, in the Division of European and American Art at Harvard Art Museums. Elizabeth is responsible for the museum’s print collection, which spans the Renaissance to the contemporary era. Her research focuses on prints of the 18th and 19th centuries, with particular interests in etching, book illustration, and works by the artist Pierre-Paul Prud’hon.
2:00PM Seeking Revelation: German Romantic Prints and Drawings — Nikki Otten Presented by Print Council of America.
During the German Romantic movement (ca. 1770–1850), many artists attempted to gain a deeper understanding of universal questions through the process of making. Decades of upheaval caused by the French Revolution, Napoleon's invasion of Germany, and challenges to the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason led them to reconsider their national identity and sense of self, as well as nature and the divine. Through works drawn from the Milwaukee Art Museum’s collection, this upcoming exhibition (Spring 2026) will examine the importance of seeking in German Romantic art, and demonstrate that even when it did not reveal answers, the act of seeking offered its own reward.
Nikki Otten is Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Previously she served as the E. Gerald and Lisa O’Brien Curatorial Fellow at the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota. She has curated a number of exhibitions, including Paper Mountains: Marsden Hartley’s Landscapes at the Weisman (2021) and The Romantic Spirit: Dark Dreams at the Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, Virginia (2017).
4:00PM IFPDA 2024 BOOK AWARD | A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries — Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl
A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries explores the generative legacy of Lowengrund (1902–1957), a visionary artist-advocate and entrepreneur. In charting the history of the print workshop-gallery she founded, The Contemporaries and, later, its evolution into Pratt Graphic Art Center, A Model Workshop brings into focus the bustling printmaking scene of 1950s New York and Lowengrund's impact on postwar printmaking.
Lauren Rosenblum is the Jensen Byran Curator at The Print Center, Philadelphia and a doctoral candidate in art history at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Christina Weyl is an independent scholar and curator. She is the author of The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York.
6:00PM IFPDA 2024 BOOK AWARD | The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints — Holly Borham
Beginning in the 1960s, with the meager budget of a part-time art history professor, Leo Steinberg amassed a collection of more than 3,500 prints that spans the medium’s 500-year history in the West. Steinberg’s collection, incorporating the work of artists both famous and obscure, illuminates his claim that in the era before photography, prints functioned as the “circulating lifeblood of ideas,” disseminating figures, compositions, and styles across boundaries of geography, time, and medium. This volume examines the development of Steinberg’s remarkable collection and its role in his scholarship on artists ranging from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Jasper Johns.
Holly Borham is Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Art at the Blanton Museum of Art, where she has curated a range of exhibitions on the graphic arts from the 16th through 21st centuries.
SATURDAY, MARCH 29th
12:00PM Artist Talk | Mickalene Thomas in Conversation with Jordan Schnitzer.
One of today’s most influential artists, Mickalene Thomas’ practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. Her mixed-media paintings, photographs, films, and installations command space while eloquently dissecting the intersecting complexities of black and female identity within the Western canon. Outside of her core practice, Thomas is a Tony Award nominated co-producer, curator, educator and mentor to emerging artists.
Jordan D. Schnitzer began focusing on acquiring contemporary prints and multiples in earnest in 1988. Today, the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation have holdings of more than 19,000 prints and multiples by the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
2:00PM Black Artists in Mexico | With Leslie King-Hammond, Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Kimberli Gant, and Dalila Scruggs. Introduction by Jennifer Farrell
Join us for a panel discussion on Black artists in Mexico with a focus on the recent Elizabeth Catlett exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and the exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson which was organized by the MFA Boston (on view Feb 8 - June 22, 2025) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (opening September 2025).
Jennifer Farrell is the Jordan Schnitzer Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She joined the department in 2014 after holding curatorial positions at the Yale University Art Gallery, the University of Virginia, and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program
Dr. Leslie King-Hammond is an artist, curator and art historian, and the founding Director of the Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she is also Graduate Dean Emeritus.
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins is an independent art curator and founding staff curator of visual arts at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. She is the author of Seasons at Lakeside Dairy; Family Stories from a Black-Owned Dairy (2024) and her work has been published in Print Quarterly, Black Renaissance Noire, and Journal of American Studies.
Kimberli Gant, PhD, is Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She formerly served as the McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum and as a Mellon Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum.
Dalila Scruggs is the Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
4:00PM Artist Talk | Carving Out Time; LaToya M. Hobbs in Conversation with Elizabeth Rudy Presented by the Association of Print Scholars
LaToya M. Hobbs is a Baltimore-based artist, educator, and a founding member of the Black Women of Print collective, whose mixed media works explore the “matrix as art object.” The talk explores Hobbs’s printmaking practice alongside themes of labor, identity, and the translation of intimacy on a grand scale.
Elizabeth Rudy, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints in the Division of European and American Art at Harvard Art Museums, is the editor of the upcoming publication LaToya M. Hobbs: Carving Out Time (2025) and the curator of LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time (Harvard Art Museums, 2024).
6:00PM IFPDA 2025 BOOK AWARD | The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late 18th Century Britain — Dr Esther Chadwick
A groundbreaking account of printmaking in Britain that explores the medium’s intersection with radical politics, The Radical Print argues for printmaking in Britain as the most exciting, innovative, and critically engaged field of artistic production in the late 18th century, demonstrating how print responded to the acceleration of historical events, the polarisation of public discourse, and the sense of a world turned upside down in ways that traditional artistic media could not.
Dr Esther Chadwick is Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was the co-curator of Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014), A Revolutionary Legacy: Haiti and Toussaint Louverture (British Museum, 2018) and Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: art, colonialism and change (Royal Academy, 2024). Before joining the Courtauld she was Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.
SUNDAY, MARCH 30TH
12:00PM Artist Talk | David Salle in Conversation with Susan Tallman.
A member of the influential Pictures Generation, David Salle combines popular, or commercial imagery with images made from direct observation and art historical references to create a personal pictorial language. At age 34, Salle was the youngest artist to receive a mid-career survey exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work is in numerous collections including the Albertina, Art Institute of Chicago, Brant Foundation, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Carnegie Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Australia, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Rubell Family Collection, Saatchi Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Tate Modern, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Yale University Art Gallery.
Susan Tallman is a critic and art historian. She has written extensively on contemporary art, authenticity, the history of prints, and other aspects of art and culture. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and The Atlantic among other publications, she has authored many books, most recently Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints (2023). In 2011 she co-founded the journal Art in Print, and served as its Editor-in-Chief until its closure in 2020.