Exhibition view of Print Ready Drawings, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, November 11, 2023—February 4, 2024. Photograph by Joshua Schaedel/MAK Center for Art and Architecture.
Print Ready Drawings: Workshop and Roundtable is a one-day hybrid program in the form of a workshop and public roundtable, convened as part of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture exhibition Print Ready Drawings, curated by Sarah Hearne and supported by the Getty Foundation’s Paper Project Initiative.
In connection with Print Ready Drawings, the workshop and roundtable brings together curators of prints and drawings alongside with architectural curators to foster a pointed discussion across these two complementary fields of collecting. The program aims to recast architectural drawing as a collaborative practice that may hold clues toward diversifying narratives from ‘masters’ to questions more specifically related to technical, material, and procedural contributions to practices of drawing. The discussions centers around architectural drawing collections and how specific drawings opens up broader questions of institutional practice and helps us rethink collecting directions; how architectural drawings can contribute to an expanded notion of material practice, with technical histories of production challenging traditional modes of scholarship and museology; and how this may foster new opportunities for collaboration across collecting areas.
The day-long program takes place at the Schindler House, in a hybrid format to accommodate visiting curators, and will be guided by Jia Yi Gu, Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Sarah Hearne, Curator of Print Ready Drawings, and Gary Riichirō Fox, Assistant Curator at the Getty Research Institute.
Schedule:
9:00 am—9:15 am Introduction by Organizers
9:15 am—11:00 am Session I: Forging Connections and Diversifying Histories of Drawing*
11:00 am—12:00 pm Lunch
12:00 pm—12:15 pm Introduction by Organizers
12:15 pm—2:30pm Session II: Print-Ready Authors
2:30 pm—2:30 pm Closing
*The first session ‘Forging Connections and Diversifying Histories of Drawing’ is a closed workshop session by invitation only. The second session, taking the form of a roundtable, ‘Print-Ready Authors’ is free and open to the public.
SESSION I: FORGING CONNECTIONS AND DIVERSIFYING HISTORIES OF DRAWING
The first of two workshops brings together curators from institutions housing large holdings of architectural drawings specifically with curators who specialize in prints and drawings, presenting an opportunity to gather around specific instances of drawings within the collections in question to discuss specifically the unique opportunities and challenges that architectural drawings present to curators of prints and drawings and architecture.
Participating Curators:
Evangelos Kotsioris, Museum of Modern Art
Anna-Maria Meister, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Irene Sunwoo, Art Institute of Chicago
Elizabeth Mescher, Art Institute of Chicago
SESSION II: PRINT-READY AUTHORS
The second program is organized as a roundtable event to consider three narratives in which reprographic technologies were adopted, recuperated, and subverted to open up possibilities for authorial reorganization and decentralization.
Participating Curators:
Craig Buckley, Yale School of Architecture
Zanna Gilbert, Getty Research Institute
Gary Riichirō Fox, Getty Research Institute
Print Ready Drawings was made possible, in part, with generous support from the Getty Foundation’s Paper Project Series. Additional support was provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the University of Colorado Denver, College of Architecture and Planning.
Print Ready Drawings
November 11, 2023 — February 4, 2024
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