Printmaking
Graduate study in Printmaking is a program of intense studio work, which seeks to provide a highly productive, exploratory, and eye opening experience. During one's tenure, students are expected not only to achieve dexterity in traditional and innovative areas of the medium, but also to develop a cohesive body of focused, informed, and directed work. The culmination of study in printmaking is a written thesis and a one-person exhibition.
The printmaking faculty fosters and exemplifies a working attitude that favors no particular technique, genre, or process, but rather that which best expresses the concept at hand. We encourage students to work both individually and collaboratively, as well as investigate the various ways in which printmaking can lend itself to other disciplines. We acknowledge that students attend graduate school for a variety of reasons and that it is important to explore the possibilities that a graduate degree offers as well as gear one's studies to fit professional and personal goals.
Facilities
Located on the top floor of the Creative Arts Center, the printmaking facilities are fully equipped for lithography and intaglio, relief, collograph, as well as limited silkscreen printing. The intaglio shop, a spacious work area with natural sky lighting, is equipped for color and black and white work on copper and zinc plates. Facilities include a fully ventilated acid room. Presses include a motorized Brand etching press with a bed six of 28” x 50” and a small Graphic Chemical proofing press. The lithography studio is set up for full color work on both stones and aluminum plates. It has four lithography presses; a large 48” x 72” Takach litho press, two Brand presses with bed size of 30” x 50” and a small Fuchs and Lang, bed size 24” x 34”. Facilities include a 40” x 60” Cincinnati vacuum table with a one-man squeegee and various tabletop setups. The Studio includes dark room facilities for photo plate and photo screen work. Graduate students have full access to the studio as well as photo darkrooms and a well-equipped Macintosh computer lab. Studio space is available for graduate students.
Contact Info:
Joseph Lupo, MFA University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
joseph.lupo@mail.wvu.edu 304.293.4841 x 3137
