The Getty Foundation has announced 13 grants totaling nearly $1.3 million in support of curatorial innovation in the graphic arts as the final grantmaking year of the foundation’s Paper Project initiative.

Grants include support for projects, such as a workshop in at the University of Virginia featuring the largest collection of Aboriginal art outside of Australia, a collaborative examination of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s prints and drawings collection through the lens of decolonization, and an exhibit about the prints of artist Edgar Heap of Birds and other Indigenous artists at Oklahoma Contemporary. The Paper Project has supported curators of prints and drawings who want to raise the visibility of works on paper. The initiative has also helped graphic arts professionals with training residencies, workshops, and seminars that bring scholars together to deepen their knowledge of the many materials and techniques used for centuries by artists working on paper.

“The breadth of artmaking processes and materials found in paper collections is expansive, so we shaped this final round of grants for curators to learn as much as they could about everything from retouching and pastels to artists’ books and prints on fabric,” said Getty Foundation senior program officer Heather MacDonald. “Everyone who participates is sure to come away with new skills and ideas for sharing these works of art with the public. It’s so rare for paper curators to get opportunities like these.”

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