Decades in the [Print]Making

Retiring Professor Donald Furst’s body of work on display

Art professor Donald Furst celebrated five decades of his work with a retrospective exhibition titled “Fifty Years of Printmaking” at UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building Art Gallery in March. Furst used various printmaking media, including engraving, etching, linoleum cut, lithography, mezzotint, screen printing, solarplate intaglio, vitreography and woodcut.

“The longer you live and the more experiences you have, the richer the image bank from which you draw new ideas,” said Furst, who retires this summer after 39 years teaching at UNCW.

Furst encouraged his students to learn to trust their inner convictions when creating their work. “No one person on the planet sees things quite the same way you do.”

–By: Venita Jenkins