In celebration of Print Center New York’s 25 year history of platforming guest curators, we invite emerging and early-career curators to submit letters of interest for exhibition opportunities beginning in 2028\. Through this curatorial open call—the first in our organization’s history—we aim to identify promising voices and areas of research that are pushing our field forward, and to accelerate professional opportunities for curators who are building the print exhibition and scholarship of tomorrow.

Print Center New York’s curatorial program aims to generate new knowledge and understanding of printmaking’s potential by: 

* locating print within broader artistic, historical, and cultural contexts
* re-examining and expanding established histories and narratives
* fostering cross-disciplinary conversation
* making print visible and accessible to non-specialist audiences
* imagining possible futures and developing new theoretical frameworks

  

Guest curators working with Print Center New York have their exhibition on view in our main exhibition space, the Jordan Schnitzer Gallery, on the ground floor of 24th Street in Chelsea. 

  
Our exhibitions are on view for approximately 12 weeks and are accompanied by a roster of public programming and, typically, a modest publication (approximately 100 pages, 5x7.5” softcover, designed in-house; contains full color images, a curatorial essay of approximately 3,000 words, and additional text and elements, as appropriate). We publish a more substantial hardcover book in partnership with art book publishers approximately once every other year. 

  
Guest curators receive an unrestricted curatorial fee, plus, if needed, an additional travel budget that can be used for curatorial research and related exhibition travel. The amounts of these fees and budgets vary, depending on the scale and scope of the project (contributing factors include, for example: whether a project will include a substantial publication; whether the curator wants to lead the development of associated public programming; or how much original research is needed to realize the project). Current curatorial fees begin at $5,000 and scale upward. 

  
Print Center New York covers all exhibition, publication, and public programming costs.

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