IFPDA Foundation Curatorial Summit
The IFPDA Foundation Curatorial Summit is an invitation-only convening of print and drawing curators from around the world who gather to share collective insights. The 2027 Summit will be held April 9th and co-organized by Nadine Orenstein, Drew Heinz Curator in Charge of the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Freyda Spira, Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery.
At a glance
- What it is
- An annual symposium for international print and drawings curators and scholars.
- Hosted by
- The IFPDA Foundation
- Who can attend
- Invitation only. Travel grants are available from the IFPDA Foundation to help institutionally based print and drawings curators attend.
- Programming
- Curator-led talks, exhibition and research presentations, and networking.
The IFPDA Foundation Curatorial Summit is an invitation-only, closed-door event. It is the largest convening of print and drawing curators from around the world who gather to share collective insights into developing exhibitions across traditional boundaries.
The 2027 IFPDA Foundation Curatorial Summit will be held on the morning of Friday, April 9th, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The event will once again be jointly organized by Nadine Orenstein, Drew Heinz Curator in Charge of the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Freyda Spira, Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery and Vice President of the Print Council of America.
In 2026 more than 100 curators attended from
- Addison Gallery of American Art
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- Art Gallery of South Australia
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University
- Blanton Museum
- Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
- British Museum
- Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Case Western Reserve University
- Cincinnati Art Museum
- Clark Art Institute
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Colby College Museum of Art
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Eskenazi Museum of Art
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Fralin Museum of Art
- Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum
- Harvard Art Museums
- Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College, NY
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
- Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
- Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
- Janet Turner Print Museum
- Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- MoMA PS1
- Morgan Library & Museum
- Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
- Museum of Modern Art
- National Gallery of Art
- National Gallery of Australia
- National Gallery of Canada
- New York Public Library
- Parrish Art Museum
- Philadelphia Art Museum
- Portland Art Museum
- Poster House, New York
- Princeton University Art Museum
- Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
- Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
- Staatliches Museum Schwerin
- Syracuse University Art Museum
- Tampa Museum of Art
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- The Huntington
- The Print Center
- Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
- Wake Forest University
- Weisman Art Museum
- Whitechapel Gallery
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Williams College Museum of Art
- Worcester Art Museum
- Yale Center for British Art
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Zimmerli Art Museum