The MFA in Printmaking program prepares graduates for careers as professional artists, crafts persons, designers and educators. Other professional opportunities include the following.

Learn age-old and contemporary concepts and techniques of printmaking, from traditional processes to experimental technologies, at one of the nation’s top programs.

Fabrication tools and printing facilities in labs and studios, including 3D printers, laser cutters, AR/VR design stations, digital routers, woodshop work stations, plotters, printers and more.

Printmaking students have nearly 10,000 square feet of dedicated space with three large rooms for lithography, etching/relief/mono printing and screen printing.

The faculty encourage the exploration of advanced printmaking techniques that include color and photo-etching, photo-lithography, metal engraving, mezzotint, viscosity color printing, woodcut, and full …

Printmaking MFA students undertake an intensive two-year, 60-credit graduate course of study in which they explore a broad range of approaches to printmaking, including 3-D installation, digital print …

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This course covers traditional methods of platemaking, such as etching, drypoint, and aquatint, as well as explorations into photo transfer and color viscosity printing.