The Paper Project

Support for prints and drawings curators to grow their skills and engage 21st-century audiences with graphic arts collections

Two greyscale drawings of a man's right forearm and hand

Michelangelo, Studies of an Outstretched Right Forearm for the Fresco 'The Drunkenness of Noah' on the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, circa 1508–1509. Black chalk, 205 x 160 mm. Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs Collection)

Photo: Studio Tromp, Rotterdam

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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

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