Printmaking
Printmaking at Montserrat is the art of the multiple — a multidisciplinary practice where you’ll analyze, transform, and replicate images through both traditional craft and contemporary technology.
Core Processes
Our curriculum treats time-honored processes as living technology — tools that get reinvented, not retired, as you bring new tools and ideas into the studio. You’ll build a foundation in the discipline’s defining techniques while enhancing your understanding of design, the importance and beauty of method, process, and studying the history and meaning of the print as a multiple through:
- Etching & Intaglio
- Lithography
- Screenprinting
- Letterpress
- Relief
- Monoprinting
Beyond the Plate
Printmaking doesn’t stop at the edge of the paper. We encourage our students to push the boundaries of what a “print” can be. Our curriculum encourages you to push print thinking into:
- Sculptural & Installation Form: Translating printed multiples into three-dimensional, spatial work.
- Bound & Book-like Forms: Building sculptural, page-based objects as an extension of print using text and image.
- Frame-by-Frame Image-Making: Exploring sequence and repetition through analogue-to-digital processes.
- Design & Visual Communication: Applying the elements of design to produce physical, printed products.
Career Paths in Print
Printmaking builds discipline and attention to detail, skills that translate directly into technical, hands-on professions. Our graduates go on to work as:
- Professional Printers & Technicians for commercial shops, fine art studios, and presses.
- Independent Artists, building practices through zines, book fairs, and small-press publishing.
- Museum & Gallery Professionals working with print collections and exhibitions.
- Educators in schools, community centers, and universities.
- Framers & Small Business Owners in print-adjacent creative trades.
- Tattoo Artists, applying print’s discipline of mark-making and repetition to a new surface.
Program Coordinator: Hannah Brooks
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“Montserrat opened me up to new types of art that I never knew existed.”
–Deanna Jacome ’15
