Printmaking

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Students who choose to concentrate in printmaking will spend their time emersed in the different printmedia including Screenprinting, Relief, Intaglio and Monotype/printmaking. Experimental methods, installation, large scale work and combining processes are highly encouraged in the program.

The robust, inclusive print community is very welcoming! Our printmakers consider it their second home. Our printmaking club loves to go out and get people excited about slinging ink! We have a portable etching press we like to take on the road and do live printing events when possible!

Our studio is well maintained and dynamic. We recently got a new Takach Etching press with a captain’s wheel, allowing students to work up to 33 x60. We also have a 48 x 28 Kimber Etching Press. The press room has a number of large glass tables for inking, giving you plenty of room to explore larger scale works and a massive paper soaking sink (80 x31). There are 2 vertical etching baths for plates up to 18 x24. Our newly remodeled screenprinting area just got a new large, back lit washout booth, power washer and screen drying area. We have a number of portable presses for screenprinting and an updated darkroom. We have separate studio spaces for a select number of students who concentrate in the medium.

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Student Class Work

 

 

The studio includes the following equipment:

-    New Takach Etching press with captains wheel and casters 60x 33.5
-    Small Kimber Etching Press 48 x28
-    Three large glass tables for intaglio/ relief/ monotype processes 64 x54 each
-    Large soaking sink in intaglio room 80 x31
-    2 hot plates 36x 18 and 36 x 24
-    Large vented area
-    2 vertical etching baths 18 x24
-    Plate cutter 30.5 wide
-    10 portable screen printing presses 32x 26
-    Large vacuum screen printing press 62.5 x54
-    Washout booth 96x36
-    Exposure unit 48 x30
-    Light table 30x 23 plus several larger light tables throughout the building
-    Griffin Litho press 45.75 x 26. 75
-    Charles Brand litho press 45 x30
-    Graining sink 118 x29
-    Flat files (6) 25.5 x 36.75
-    Flat files (6) 50 x38.5
-    A wide variety of large composition and leather rollers
-    A wide variety of squeegees
-    Several sinks
-    Large format Epson printer (24in wide printing)
-    Small Epson printer (13 in wide printing)
-    Mac computer with Adobe Suite