SAIC Printmedia MFA Brochure

Printmedia

saic.edu/printmedia

Our Printmedia program program celebrates traditional forms of printmaking and actively encourages expanding the boundaries of contemporary print by promoting experimentation with materials, techniques, and processes informed by research and critical thinking.

Exploration and experimentation

Students employ a wide variety of printing approaches and developing technologies, and access techniques from across disciplines to create prints, artists’ books, threedimensional objects, installations, new media, and timebased arts. The department’s interdisciplinary philosophy supports and advances new ideas and novel approaches.

Faculty and advisors

Our faculty of nationally and internationally recognized artists is engaged in contemporary theoretical discourse, creating a stimulating environment for the exchange of ideas that inform the production of art. Students select graduate advisors from within the department and from more than 100 graduate faculty advisors representing a myriad of disciplines at SAIC.

Professional connections

Students are eligible for up to two teaching assistantships per semester, gaining valuable professional experience. Annual graduate lectures offer students opportunities to present their studio research to faculty and peers from diverse disciplines.

Visiting Artists

The department hosts visiting artists, critics, and scholars from around the world for lectures, critiques, and collaborations, providing opportunities for students to engage in a community beyond SAIC.

For more information on program and application requirements, please visit: saic.edu/printmedia

Reham Mohamed, The infinite in the betweenness of the horizons of reality, dreams and imagination, and the beauty of the intertwining between everything and everything is nothingness, combined, complicated, intertwined, continuously endless,

Facilities

Printmedia students have access to individual graduate studios with 24-hour access to facilities and equipment, including:

• 13,000-square-foot printmaking facility

• 6 intaglio/relief presses

• 15 screen printing stations with 2 large-format vacuum tables

• 4 lithography presses

• Offset studio with 2 automated presses using direct-toplate printing and 2 Risograph printers

• Darkrooms for screen printing, lithography, and intaglio

• Artists’ books/bookbinding studio

• Fully equipped Macintosh computer lab with workstations, scanners, and large/medium format printers

• Access to laser cutters, 3D printers and scanners, CNC routers and other advanced digital and analog technologies

• Access to highly regarded collections of prints and multiples in the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at SAIC and the Prints and Drawings Study Room at the Art Institute of Chicago

Faculty

SHAURYA KUMAR

AYANAH MOOR

PETER POWER

CONOR STECHSCHULTE

JINA VALENTINE

OLI WATT

For complete faculty listing visit: saic.edu/printmedia

Application Deadline: January 10

Curriculum Requirements

Art History

ARTHI 5002 Graduate Survey of Modern and Contemporary Art (3) or ARTHI 5120 Survey of Modern and Contemporary Architecture and Design (3) Art History Courses at the 4000

(9)

Any course in any area at 3000 level or above

Participation in four graduate critiques

Participation in ONE of the following as appropriate to artistic practice: Graduate Exhibition, Graduate Performance Event, Graduate Screenings

Application Process

Submit:

› Online application

› Official college transcripts

› Statement of purpose

› Letters of recommendation

› ePortfolio

› Résumé

Jess Atieno from left to right:

The Weight of Whispers

Past is Prologue

Of Ghostly Silences and Constant Yearnings Look, The Time is Ripe for Harvest

The Weight of History

Rachel Yao, My Dream of the Red Chamber

Maddie May, Scrub