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From ArtHist.net:

Paper Backstories: European Prints in Southern Museums

Online, hosted by Vanderbilt University, 16 October 2025

Staged in conjunction with the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art’s Fall 2025 exhibition Paper Backs: Hidden Stories of European Prints from the VUMA Collection, this virtual symposium will bring together curators who oversee collections of European prints at museums spread across the South. Each curator will give a lightning-style, 10-minute presentation about their museum’s pre-1915 European print holdings, with the goal of making these collections better-known amongst local, regional, and global audiences of both amateurs and professionals. The symposium also seeks to initiate a collective discussion about how and why European prints often served as catalysts for the formation of institutional art collections in a region with limited public art infrastructure before the turn of the twentieth century. How did old master and early modernist European prints in particular support various progressive and post-World War I- era agendas? What challenges and opportunities face the study and promotion of such objects in the South today? Attendance is free and open to all.

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s c h e d u l e

12pm (Central Standard Time)  Courtney Wilder, The Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, Nashville

12.15  Sarah Cartwright, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University, Sarasota

12.25  Dana E. Cowen, The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill

12.35  Maggie Crosland, The Birmingham Museum of Art

12.45  Nelda Damiano, The Georgia Museum, University of Georgia, Athens

1.00  Alyssa M. Hughes, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

1.10  Q&A

1.30  Event concludes