Book Arts/Printmaking

What are book arts?
Book arts are the creative processes behind visualizing, designing, and making books. Elements such as 3-D and 2-D structure, time and sequence, text and image are considered.

What is printmaking?
Printmaking is an artmaking process which results, usually, in multiple impressions of the same image. Using a matrix made from stone, wood, metal or other material, you’ll learn to create and product images and/or text on paper and other surfaces.

Why study book arts and printmaking at UArts?
UArts has developed a unique, highly-interdisciplinary program that attracts creative individuals who are interested in more than one art form. Photographers who love to write or designers who can also paint belong in this program. Like UArts itself, the printmaking and book arts courses expose students to a variety of art forms—design, writing, drawing, painting, sculpture.

What programs does UArts offer in book arts/printmaking?
• M.F.A. Book Arts/ Printmaking
• B.F.A. Printmaking/ Book Arts
• Book Arts minor

Are the UArts faculty practicing artists?
Absolutely. As highly-recognized book artists, printmakers, and conservators, they have showcased their work at such places as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Museum of Modern Art, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and Japan’s Gallery Avenue Kobe.

What printmaking and book arts facilities are available?
UArts has extensive studios and specialized facilities for:
• Papermaking
• Non-silver photography
• Bookbinding
• Water-based screenprinting
• Letterpress
• Intaglio
• Relief printing
• Stone and paper lithography
• Offset lithography

 

 




Sarah Pohlman, a Book Arts/Printmaking alumni, published this Artists' Book in 2007. The book is titled Everything and Everyone: In the End We Are All One.


Students studying for a degree in the printmaking/book arts program benefit from a strong mix of conceptual thinking and hands on experience."