All donations enable the Center to support the arts in our region and beyond and we appreciate any and all support for our efforts to continue our mission. CCP provides a wide range of unique services to the artistic community in an effort to educate the next generation of printmakers while working to preserve and advance the art of the original print. Donors wanting to give to specific program areas are welcome to add a note on the donation page to indicate an area of interest (e.g. studios, exhibitions, education, artist residency, or general operations).
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CCP is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contribution is fully tax deductible and a donation acknowledgement form will be provided for your tax records.
Annual Appeal
Every December, we invite our community to join us in raising the funds essential to sustaining the Center for Contemporary Printmaking’s mission: to support, preserve, and advance the art of original prints.
Your generosity helps meet our evolving operational needs each year and offsets the core costs that make our exhibitions, workshops, residencies, and community outreach initiatives possible.
Click here to explore the key projects and initiatives from 2025 that your year-end gift will help carry forward into the year ahead. Thank you for your continued support!
Grace Ross Shanley Fund
The Grace Ross Shanley Scholarship Fund was named in honor of the founder of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Grace Ross Shanley was a firm believer both in the importance of community and the need for ongoing education about printmaking. The mission of this fund is to further the growth of artists and foster the next generation of printmakers. Components include the High School Student Fellowship Program, Self-Funded and Professional Development Artist-in-Residencies. It also supports an arts administration externship program. Planning is under way for additional supported programs to enhance the skills and development of artists and increase public awareness and appreciation of printmaking.
Binnie Birstein Memorial Scholarship Fund
Funds raised through the Binnie Birstein Memorial Scholarship Fund provide awards during exhibitions that fund artists taking workshops at CCP, an effort that reflects Binnie’s love of learning and practicing printmaking at CCP and its support for its artist community through the years.
Binnie Birstein was a painter, printmaker, teacher and active member of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP) for many years. It was Binnie’s wish to continue to support working artists at CCP with scholarships for classes, which is the goal of this fund drive. A small team of artists is working with the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and will be creating prizes and cash awards for artists who exhibit at CCP.
Known for her energetic paintings and prints, Binnie was always generous, with a quick wit, warm smile and enthusiasm. She showed her artwork nationally and for many years was a regular presenter and teacher at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown. She spent decades sharing her knowledge, supporting and encouraging others. She loved the excitement of CCP’s annual Monothon print week fundraiser, pulling prints and working with the creative team of artists and master printers.
Sadly, Binnie passed away from pancreatic cancer on May 9, 2018. She will be sorely missed.
Please support this fund, for the love of Binnie!
The Susie Salomon Community Outreach Fund
Susie Salomon, a longtime friend of CCP and best friend of our founder Grace Ross Shanley, passed away back in March. Susie had been an active and involved presence at CCP since the earliest days of our founding. Many of you knew her, enjoyed her spirited conversations and deep, deep dedication to the arts, artists, and the young people of our community. Susie generously supported our after school youth programs, internships, and whatever else was needed to help make sure that Grace’s vision for CCP as a lasting community print studio for artists of all ages and stages remained viable.
Susie had great stories, and she loved recalling her trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1999 with Grace visiting the Santa Fe Monothon to meet Ron Pokrasso in order to understand the unique program he created. They took from that experience a detailed accounting of its processes in order to bring it back to Connecticut and establish it here at CCP. Susie loved the Monothon, attending each year and generously hosting Ron during his visits to Norwalk during Print Week. She loved having the deep connections to artists, the rich conversations they engendered, and the ability to gain insight into art making directly from them. It was always a joy to have her visit with us and see what was of interest to her in the galleries and the questions she would ask and the observations she had. Her smile and her enthusiasm will be greatly missed.
Not only was Susie part of the founding of Monothon, but she was dedicated to any and all of the programs for which we involved children and youth artists. She would help make sure that after school workshop programs ran, that our interns could receive a stipend, that kids could participate in the Youth Monothon and not be left out because of the registration fee. In that spirit, tonight we are formally establishing a fund in Susie’s name to offset some of the costs for on-site workshops for other non-profit and community groups in order to reduce their cost. We have schools and community youth groups that reach out asking CCP to go on-site to them or even to come here to our studios for a day-long hands-on workshop experience, and the cost is sometimes prohibitive. Or CCP has pared down our offering in order to make it work, but we would like to see all students, all community members receiving the same quality of education and outreach, and this fund will make that happen.