The Paper Project
Support for prints and drawings curators to grow their skills and engage 21st-century audiences with graphic arts collections
Project Details
- Categories
- Years 2018 – present
- Status
- Organizer
About
Goal
The Paper Project helps curators navigate the demands of the modern museum by preserving traditional skills that have been passed down through generations of specialists while simultaneously supporting innovative efforts to make graphic arts collections accessible and relevant to today’s audiences.
Outcomes
- Increase in visibility, skills, and recognition for curators of prints and drawings
- Over 30 new exhibitions, microsites, and gallery interactives to increase awareness of the graphic arts
- More than 20 paper and digital publications on prints and drawings
- 24 professional workshops and traveling seminars with an estimated 400 international participants focused on prints and drawings connoisseurship, emerging topics in the study and interpretation of works on paper, and network-building among curators, scholars, and conservators of the graphic arts
Project Details
Resources
All Resources
- 2023
Website
William Bache's Silhouettes Album: Digital Project of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
- 2023
Website
German Design Drawings Explored: New discoveries in the collections at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- 2023
Website
A Sea of Drawings: Step inside the Van de Velde studio at Royal Museums Greenwich
- 2023
Website
Sylvester Koehler: Exploring Print History
- 2023
Website
Jean Delpech: Wartime Works
- 2023
Podcast episode
Hello, Print Friend | Margaret Lowengrund
- 2023
Website
Transparent designs: Copies and Tracings in 18th-century Architectural Practice
- 2023
Website
Marisol: Works on Paper
- 2023
Website
Las Bienales Americanas de Artes Gráficas
- 2022
Website
The Acid Lab: Etchings from Albrecht Dürer to William Kentridge at Kunstmuseum Basel
- 2021
Website
Drawing Closer: Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
News
- 2024
Press Release
Getty Awards over $1 Million to Fund Curatorial Innovation
- 2023
Newspaper article
NYTimes: Digitized Silhouette Portraits Shed Light on 19th-Century Life
- 2023
Article
Silhouette Sleuthing
- 2023
Article
Women Who Wander
- 2022
Press Release
Getty Foundation Awards over $1 Million to Fund Curatorial Innovation at 15 Art Institutions
- 2021
Article
The Greatest Satirist You’ve Never Heard Of
- 2021
Press Release
Getty Awards New Grants for Curatorial Innovation in Prints and Drawings
- 2019
Article
Harvard Art Museums: Getting Technical: Prints and Drawings Workshop at the Museums
- 2018
Article
Curating Prints and Drawings in a Changing Field
- 2018
Magazine article
Fine Books Magazine: Morgan Library Curators to Lead a Traveling Seminar on Drawings Connoisseurship