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The Printmaking Program provides a complete studio experience leading toward BFA and MFA degrees with regular courses in intaglio, lithography and special topic offerings in relief and monotype and periodic courses in papermaking and screenprint. Emphasis is placed on both traditional and exploratory techniques and concepts, including monoprints, combinations of print and non-print methods and photo-print processes including non-silver photographic processes. No style, technique or aesthetic approach is stressed over another, so that the individual quality of one's work is the essential measure of achievement.
Within the school, the printmaking program strives to serve a range of constituencies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. These include:
Undergraduate Print Majors: We provide a workshop environment conducive to artistic growth while offering a sound, well rounded background in the concepts, history and craft of printmaking. Graduating students are prepared to pursue graduate school and/or work as an independent artist or illustrator, or undertake printer training in a specialized program.
Graduate Students with a Concentration in Printmaking: For a select group of graduate students, we offer an advanced program which builds upon the mission of our undergraduate program. Graduate students are required to place a greater emphasis on applying theory to the development of a mature body of work. Our program is also intended to provide preparatory experiences for college level teaching for students on a graduate teaching assistantship.
Undergraduate and Graduate Studio Students: Students in all studio areas who take print courses as either a degree requirement or as an elective are encouraged to build on their other studio work. Our role is not to convert these students to our program, but to help them find complimentary modes of expression.
Undergraduate and Graduate Graphic Design Students: For the sizable population of graphic design students, print courses provide a valuable opportunity to apply the mechanics and principals of printing. Through photo-print processes, many of these students are able to translate work designed on a Macintosh computer for output on paper, cloth or metal. Similarly, students working with photographic process have many imaging choices in printmaking.
The print area encourages a pedagogical approach which treats prints as one of many tools in an expanded field of art production. In serving this wide range of areas within the school of art, printmaking has the potential to function as an important meeting ground for artistic issues and approaches, from the autographic and painterly, to the mechanical, computer aided and photographic. In this sense, print forms can function as a bridge, crossing the boundaries which divide the fine from the applied arts. For this reason, we see the mission of the print area as a critical component of the school's overall mission.
The Faculty
Beauvais Lyons (Printmaking)
Anita Jung (Printmaking)
UTK Print Workshop Workshop Facilities and Equipment List
