Program Overview

Studio Art Master’s with a Concentration in Printmaking

Program Overview

The Studio Art Master’s with a Concentration in Printmaking is a terminal degree experience that focuses on intellectual and creative growth, fostering the students' practice and preparing them for a lifetime of accomplishment and meaningful contribution as culture creators.

Program Details

• Program Type: Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 3 years
• Credit Hours: 60

Program Description

This broad and intensive terminal degree experience focuses on intellectual and creative growth, fostering the students' practice and preparing them for a lifetime of accomplishment and meaningful contribution as culture creators. The program frames the individual needs of each student through the development of conceptual, aesthetic, and technical skills.

Marketable Skills

• Critical thinking
• Advanced craftsmanship
• Teamwork
• Advanced oral and written communication
• Advanced multiple approach assessment

Program Highlights

• Access to a diverse collection of printmaking assets, including four lithography presses, seven relief, intaglio, and monotype presses, and a large assortment of ink rollers and brayers, lithography stones, squeegees, intaglio hand tools, and mokuhanga tools.
• A letterpress room within the studio that houses two restored clam-shell letterpresses and a Vandercook letterpress.
• A series of rooms for photo-print processes, including a dark room with three exposure units and a photopolymer platemaker, a screen-drying room, and a wash-out room.
• A dedicated etching room with vertical tanks for Ferric Chloride-based intaglio etching.
• Graduate courses include the M.F.A. Seminar, Professional Practices, M.F.A. Theory, and Rotating Topics Courses.
• The CVAD Printmaking Studio includes two spacious light-filled open-concept classroom spaces for lithography, intaglio, relief, and monotype, and one for screen printing and bookmaking.

Career Opportunities

This degree will prepare graduates for diverse career pathways in the following areas:

• Education
• Museum work
• Entrepreneurship
• Commercial industry
• The arts

Employment opportunities include working as a:

• Professor, lecturer, or technician at a college or university
• General art teacher in elementary/high schools or workshop leader
• Fine artist in professional studio practice
• Exhibitions producer
• Public art creator or collaborator on interactive spaces

Printmakers may join co-operatives with other printers and develop small businesses selling commercial items featuring their work. Graduates may be self-employed business owners or work for manufacturers or large-scale studios.

Additional employment opportunities include the creation of branded merchandise, posters, sign making, gallery curation, and management.

Coursework

• Seminar in University Art Teaching (3 hrs)
• Praxis: Rotating Topics (3 hrs)
• Professional Practices for the Studio Artist (3 hrs)
• M.F.A. Project In Lieu of Thesis Research (3 hrs)
• M.F.A. Project in Lieu of Thesis (3 hrs)
• Topics in Studio Art (3 hr)