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BFA Printmaking
Philosophy
The printmaking concentration seeks to provide the developing artist the opportunity to understand and meet the demands of the contemporary professional artist. The program foundation is based on the freedom and pursuit of individual study. The studio facility and program environment act in union to develop a vocabulary that utilizes and applies all of the printmaking processes. Printmakers must be able to challenge, to question, to solve, to evolve their art within the limitations and vocabulary of the print process. The definitions of printmaking are dually recognized as a source of visual language, rich in tradition and history, and also as a point where creativity and exploration begin. A commitment, therefore, is established between technical mastery and a resolution toward creative and intellectual freedom.
Curriculum
Courses in printmaking follow a chronological sequence from lower-division to upper-division including studies in etching, lithography, woodcut, collagraph, figurative drawing and painting and evolve to special study classes which also may include viscosity, digital and photo processes.
Equipment
The printmaking studio is a large functional space with etching and relief presses on one end and lithography presses on the other end. Also available in an adjacent studio is a letterpress, wood and lead type fonts and equipment for papermaking and artist’s books.
Faculty
Professor Maurice Gray heads the printmaking program. Gray received his MA from the University of Dallas in 1972 and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1974. He has taught at the University of Colorado, Denver and Edinboro State College, Pennsylvania before coming to Fullerton. Gray’s work has been included in over 160 group and over 20 solo national and international exhibitions. Among the venues are the Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Nevada Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; Wakayama, Japan; Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea; the Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, CA. He directs workshops and lectures at universities throughout the United States.
Links
We encourage you to visit The University Academic Catalog to become more familiar with the Printmaking curriculum as well as the News & Culture section for art department news.