The Printmaking & Drawing concentration values technical aptitude, innovation and experimentation by merging both traditional and expansive drawing and printmaking methods with contemporary thinking about process, materials, and the development of personal vision.
Drawing is at the creative core of many art practices and is itself a wide-ranging, exploratory field. Printmaking provides further expressive and conceptual options for artists by offering a range of courses such as lithography, screen printing, relief and intaglio methods, and mixed-media printmaking that bridges the digital and the handmade. Both drawing and printmaking are inherently interdisciplinary fields, so the area frequently converses with other School of Art areas to offer students a rich educational experience.
Students will find printmaking and drawing faculty bring diverse experience to this area as artists who operate as painters, digital designers, book artists, sculptors, textile artists and more. Further, with access to the UNCG Special Collections Library and the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s collection of cutting-edge contemporary art, students can study artworks that inspire, teach, and engage powerfully across the cultural spectrum.
Program Distinctions
In 2021, Printmaking and Drawing faculty members Barbara Campbell Thomas and Christopher Thomas exhibited work in a traveling exhibition, Catalog, a group exhibition highlighting their participation in The Printmakers Left, an international collective of artists who have been working together for over 20 years on artist books, printed matter and installations. The exhibition is traveling to galleries across the US.
Between 2020 and 2021, Printmaking and Drawing Faculty member Barbara Campbell Thomas exhibited work at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
2021 – Printmaking & Drawing faculty Barbara Campbell Thomas and Christopher Thomas exhibited work in a traveling exhibition, Catalog, highlighting their participation in The Printmakers Left, an international collective of artists who have been working together for over 20 years on artist books, printed matter and installations.
2020 – Printmaking & Drawing Faculty member Barbara Campbell Thomas exhibited work at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
2019 – Printmaking and Drawing Faculty Christopher Thomas and Barbara Campbell Thomas travel to Chengdu, China to teach a week-long mixed media drawing workshop to 75 students at the Chengdu Academy of Fine Art.
2019 – Printmaking and Drawing Area hosts a Chinese brush painting workshop with a master of traditional Chinese Painting.
2019 – Valpuri Remling, Master Printer and Workshop Manager at the internationally renowned Tamarind Institute visits the printmaking and drawing area and gives a talk to students.
2016 – Falk Visiting Artist Rosemarie Fiore works with students from across the School of Art, including Printmaking and Drawing students, to create a site-specific work in which she draws with the smoke and fire from firecrackers.
2015 – The Printmakers Left: Visionary Workbook at Gatewood Gallery
The Printmaker’s Left, an international collective of artists who have been working together for over 20 years on artist books, printed matter and installations, exhibited prints, books, paintings and ephemera at UNCG.
Studio Resources Include:
- 2 etching presses
- 1 letterpress
- 2 lithography presses
- Screen printing facilities
- Digital imaging and output
- + additional equipment available through the Jackson Library including letterpress and Risograph
The Student Experience
Students in Printmaking & Drawing are involved with The Coraddi (https://coraddimag.com/)
After Graduation
Anthony Patterson – www.aipatterson.com
Logan Hamilton – www.grimgraphicsink.com
Sarah Laponte – www.sarahlaponte.com
Topher Alexander – www.christopheralexander.work
Printmaking and Drawing Faculty
List of Courses
These courses are required by the Printmaking and Drawing concentration. For a suggested schedule of courses for Printmaking and Drawing students, see the schedule at the bottom of this page. For more information on these and other available courses, see the UNCG course bulletin.