Printmaking at CIA
Influencing culture for centuries, printmaking embraces, utilizes, and challenges technology as an experimental method to image making. As a Printmaking major at one of the premier art and design schools in the nation, you will develop a comprehensive approach to understanding, defining, and making prints.
Develop Essential Skills for the Workplace
Our coursework is designed to expand your intellectual, creative, and critical abilities under the guidance of our committed faculty, who are widely-respected, practicing artists in the field. Using kinesthetic and theoretical learning styles, you will acquire a broad knowledge of several print mediums including traditional intaglio, lithography, and relief printing as well as digital media applications.
You also will be tutored in creating a professional portfolio, developing grant-writing skills, and proper etiquette for successfully approaching dealers, curators, and collectors. In addition, you will gain an understanding of how to set up your own professional studio in our Professional Practices program. Your CIA experience culminates with a BFA exhibition that entails presenting a body of self-initiated work, an oral defense, and a written artist statement.
Enjoy a Synergistic Atmosphere
In the Printmaking major, we emphasize cooperation and teamwork with students and faculty investigating, challenging, and influencing the field together. Our structured program fosters a vigorous environment that nurtures, challenges, and supports individual vision and talent.
As part of the Visual Arts and Technologies (VAT) Environment, you will share in an integrated curriculum studying other disciplines within the environment including Drawing, Painting, Fiber + Material Studies, and Sculpture. You may take classes from our VAT Environment Artist-in-Residence, a leading artist in his or her field.
Each spring, you also will have an opportunity to visit professional galleries and exhibitions, such as the Whitney Biennial and The Armory Show, in New York City.
Learn More
Find out more about our printmaking facilities, faculty, courses, and available scholarships. Check out potential career paths in printmaking or works created by our students.
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Anne Kibbe: Intaglio |
James Glick |
Katie Loesel |
Kurt Moore |
Elizabeth Valasco |
Rachel Shelton: Woodcut Series |
Professional Printmaking Facilities
Located in the George Gund Building, our 4,000 square-foot studio workshop cultivates a fun, supportive environment for the free exchange of ideas, methodology, and artistic inquiry. We give each student an individual studio space as well as access to numerous etching and lithography presses, and book arts and letterpress facilities.Careers in Printmaking
Graduates from our Printmaking BFA program work for fine arts print studios, Web design companies, academia, art galleries, and prominent studio programs in museums.
Particular career options in the field of printmaking include:
- Art educator/teacher
- Conservationist
- Cultural activist
- Exhibition, gallery or museum curator
- Gallery professional
- Graphic designer
- Illustrator
- Museum professional
- Print designer
- Professional contract printer
- Project facilitator
- Studio artist
- Web designer
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Printmaking Courses
- Aesthetics, Style, and Content
- Art in the Global Context
- Artist as Producer
- BFA Statement and Exhibition
- Collaboration Through a Printed Experience
- Expanded Print: New Imaging
- Freshman Environmental Elective: Visual Art and Technologies
- Image and Form: Visual Literacy
- Image and Form II: Reproducibility
- Intro Printmaking: Image Construction, Line, and Sequence
- The Liberated Print: Investigation of Alternative Methods
- Printmaking: The Artist’s Book Now: Narrative and Form
- Printmaking: Intaglio/Relief
- Printmaking Seminar
- Propaganda: Media, Dissemination, Techniques
- Subject, Content, and Form
Scholarships
The Cleveland Institute of Art offers an extensive merit recognition program, using endowed scholarships and other private monies, to support our students. We offer scholarships through our academic departments, the Office of Admissions, and the Office of Financial Aid. Learn more about scholarships at CIA.
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Printmaking Scholarships
Frank N. Wilcox '10 Memorial Prize
Awarded for outstanding achievement to a current 2nd or 3rd year student majoring in Printmaking. Total Amount of Award in 2009: $610, shared by 1 winner(s) - Cash Prize. Award is based on Merit. Merit is criteria in all awards. Need-based awards are based on FAFSA form and the federal methodology.
H.C. Cassill Scholarship in Printmaking
Awarded to current 2nd year Printmaking major for excellence in the technical craft of drawing and printmaking, with a major emphasis on ideological concepts. Award is renewable for 4th year of study, if appropriate. Total Amount of Award in 2009: $310, shared by 1 winner(s). Award is based on Merit. Merit is criteria in all awards. Need-based awards are based on FAFSA form and the federal methodology.
Sybil J. Gould '31 Scholarship for Excellence in Graphic Arts
Awarded to a current 2nd year student for outstanding achievement and potential. Award will be distributed in the student's 3rd year, and is renewable for their 4th year if student remains in good academic standing. Total Amount of Award in 2008: $2,600, shared by 1 winner(s). Award is based on Need. Merit is criteria in all awards. Need-based awards are based on FAFSA form and the federal methodology.