Major Printmaking
I value experimental methods of image making and the influential history of printmaking on our modern world.
MAKE AN IMPACT
Print has been a way to document, communicate, and share information throughout history. It can be your platform for creative expression or cultural change. Use printmaking to find your voice as an artist and leave your mark.
Why Printmaking at CIA?
You’ll have your very own studio space starting your sophomore year. Decorate and fill your space with what inspires you the most —posters, tools, pictures of friends and pets. The options are endless.
Another huge benefit is that you won’t have to carry your materials back and forth between home and school. You can store all of your supplies right in your home away from home.
Imagine 4,000-square-feet of space to explore and create. This studio workshop space allows for a fun and supportive space where you and your peers can exchange ideas, process tips and artistic inquiry.
On top of your individual studio, you’ll have access to numerous etching and lithography presses, and book arts and letterpress facilities.
You’ll study traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques. Discover traditional intaglio, lithography, screenprinting and relief printing as well as digital media applications. You’ll find your voice and develop your approach to understanding, defining and making prints.
We Want Everything
This exhibition transformed Reinberger Gallery into an active maker space. It showed the history of print and its connections to political activism, posters, radical music and book publishing design and allowed viewers to engage in the making process. It was organized in collaboration with artist, designer and archivist Josh MacPhee.
Student Experience
Layla Harris ’24 is volunteering as the Artist in Residence for CIA’s printmaking department for 2024-25.
Nicole Carroll ’23 is a Production Assistant at Arborwear, using various print processes on customer products.
Clotilde Jiménez ’13 designed the artistic posters for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. He is a celebrated international artist based in Mexico City.
Alex Anthes ’11 is the Education Manager at the Erie Art Museum. They develop and implement educational initiatives that connect visitors with a diverse array of artists.
Meet Faculty
Maggie Denk-Leigh
Associate Professor + Division ChairMaggie Denk-Leigh is an Associate Professor and the Printmaking Department Chair at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Beginning at CIA in 1999 in the Printmaking program, she…
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