Curators in Conversation: Repetition and Iteration in Printmaking

In celebration of the opening of One After Another: Series and Studies, join us for a conversation about the role of repetition and iteration in printmaking. Laurel Garber, the Park Family Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Michelle Donnelly, the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at PAFA, will discuss artists’ creative processes and experimental impulses across an array of printmaking techniques. With a focus on materiality and acts of making, they will illuminate works by Mary Cassatt, Sam Gilliam, Winslow Homer, Howardena Pindell, and others on view in the exhibition. The conversation will be moderated by Lea C. Stephenson, the Kenneth R. Woodcock Curator of Historical American Art at PAFA.One After Another: Series and Studies investigates the role of seriality in artistic practice across more than two centuries of American art. Drawn entirely from PAFA’s permanent collection, this exhibition brings together sketchbooks, preparatory studies, serial prints, and suites of drawings to reveal how artists develop ideas over time. Whether used for training, observation, material experimentation, or formal investigation, repetition emerges as a fundamental creative strategy. By presenting works in series rather than as isolated objects, the exhibition invites visitors into the often hidden processes through which artists revise and transform their ideas. Register Now