CTRL+V(irtual) GAP Conference 2021

FRIDAY, JULY 23 - MONDAY, JULY 26

Conference Tickets: $200 for GAP members, $240 for non-GAP members (plus Eventbrite fees), including a year’s membership. Opportunity for help with cost: request a scholarship. Email GAPvirtualconference@gmail.com for more info.

Conference Highlights

Annie Howe - sitting on steps with papercut pattern wallpaper behind — Annie Howe – Beyond the Original: Papercuts in Collaborations, Products, & Other Markets

Annie Howe – Beyond the Original: Papercuts in Collaborations, Products, & Other Markets

Jerise Fogel - They fall and falling they are given wings — Rosa Leff – Papercut Cityscapes

Tour of the National Portrait Gallery’s Hand-cut Silhouette Collection, with Robyn Asleson, Curator

Silhouettes—cut paper profiles—were a hugely popular and democratic form of portraiture in the 19th century, offering virtually instantaneous likenesses of everyone from presidents to those who were enslaved. Robyn will lead us on a tour of the Portrait Gallery’s extensive collection of silhouettes, such as those by Auguste Edouart, who captured the likenesses of such notable figures as John Quincy Adams and Lydia Maria Child, as well as the bold new reimaginings of silhouettes by contemporary artists.