Grants

Through the IFPDA Foundation, the IFPDA provides grants for exhibitions, scholarly publications, and educational programs that promote a greater awareness and appreciation of fine prints.

2011 Grant Awards

Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints
Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints
Smart Museum of Art - University of Chicago
Informed by the scholarship of University of Chicago Faculty, Awash in Color will feature more than 100 color woodblock prints and woodblock-printed books made by Japanese and French artists over the span of two centuries. Together, these prints trace a history of color printing and present an intriguing new perspective on familiar Japonisme narratives.
Two Venetian Masters: Canaletto & Domenico Tiepolo Etchings from the Arthur Ross Foundation
Two Venetian Masters: Canaletto & Domenico Tiepolo Etchings from the Arthur Ross Foundation
Zimmerli Art Museum - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Two Venetian Masters will present rare etchings by Canaletto and Tiepolo, two of the great artists who made Venice a cultural capital during the eighteenth century. The exhibition and related public programs will highlight the importance of etching in art history through the contribution of these important eighteenth-century artists. It also reinforces the Zimmerli's longstanding commitment to serve the enormous interest in prints at the university and in the tri-state area.
Black White Gray Blue
Black White Gray Blue
Des Moines Art Center
Black White Gray Blue, organized by the Des Moines Art Center in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War, will feature an unconventional mix of both historical and contemporary prints from the Art Center's Permanent Collection. In these works, artists reveal and re-visit the horrors of slavery in America; witness, depict, and interpret the War Between the States; and confront this nation's ongoing legacy of racism. Artists in the exhibition include Robert Colescott, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Dario Robleto, and Kara Walker, among others.
California Society of Printmakers Centennial 1913-2012
California Society of Printmakers
In 2013 California Society of Printmakers (CSP), the oldest society of artist-printmakers in the U.S., celebrates its centennial with exhibitions, a public centennial lecture, and a publication. The book will feature four scholarly essays and color documentation of its artist members.