Printmaking

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Slay, Jade Lamoreaux, Woodcut

Degrees offered through the Printmaking program include:

Printmaking Program

The printmaking program offers courses in Beginning through Advanced and Graduate Printmaking, Relief (linoleum and woodblock), Intaglio (etching, engraving and drypoint), Lithography, Silkscreen, Photo-Processes and Monotypes and Monoprints. Students are encouraged to develop their aesthetics through exploring imagery, colors and various printmaking techniques as well as exploration into the many possibilities used in combination to make prints.

Devante Owens makes a print at the printmaking studio at the Fairbanks campus. Owens is a bachelor of fine arts student at the College of Liberal Arts. | UAF Photo by JR Ancheta

Selected Student Work

a woodcut with a pale green background showing black shadowy hands reach towards and wrap around the white pelvic bones of a skeleton

Hands Off

Jade Lamoreaux

an abstract black inky shape swirling in the middle of the paper

Tunnel Vision

Madison Troyer, Monotype

A centered deep red square containing bright red and black text and abstract drawings.

Kinikmuit

Reily Dixon, Woodcut and Mixed Media

A deep blue intaglio image of passengers on a train with fox heads and human bodies, wearing suits. A central figure, a mouse, looks back at the viewer from under the hood of their parka.

First Train in a Long Time

Arisa Sasaki

Two skiers in silhouette against a moonlit sky on Murphy Dome

Moonshadows on Murphy Dome

Christina Turman

Mugshot

Susan Andrews, Aquatint

Tall birch trees in the midground frame a cozy house as the sun sits low on the horizon in a bright yellow sky over bright green hills and fields

1AM

Stella Bettisworth, Woodcut

Snap

Kyle Agustines, Collagraph

A wooden path cuts through a forest of birch trees

Creamer's Field

Sarah Gerstenfield

Niłtiy Giłq’ats | Relief print with watercolor | Gidinatiy Hartman, image courtesy of the artist

Fine Arts Archive

Browse previous MFA and BFA thesis exhibitions at UAF

Facilities

The printmaking studio has two etching presses, one combination lithography & etching press and a relief/etching press and a variety of hand and power tools to create plates and blocks for the presses. The print shop uses a ferric chloride solution in a vertical etching tank and has access to a computer and a state of the art laser platemaker for photo-process techniques.