Printmaking Facilities

Classroom and Patio 

  • A medium-sized multi-purpose classroom with a SmartRoom set up. The room is used for discussions, lectures, and working on preparatory drawings and matrices.
  • A medium-sized, semi-covered outdoor patio for solvent usage, some over-sized productions, clean up, etc.
  • Terra cotta tabled area for outdoor eating and potluck activities.

Etching and Relief 

  • A large etching and relief printing room for relief and etching printing activities
  • A separate etching (acid) room, with ventilation system, equipped with emergency shower and eye wash stations
  • One large aquatint box and one large spray booth
  • Two large hot plates
  • One large, designated paper soaking sink and various trays
  • One large, two medium, and one small etching presses
  • Two medium-sized proofing letterpresses and one showcard relief press
  • Various electric hand-held tools: sharpener, sander, buffer, etc.

Lithography, Screen-printing, and Photo-digital 

  • A large lithography and silkscreen studio with working counters and stone storage
  • Two large, one medium, and two small lithographic presses
  • Two hydraulic stone & backer lifts
  • 150+ various sized lithographic stones
  • One large LED silkscreen exposure unit and one medium-sized plate exposure unit
  • A medium-sized screen-darkroom with screen storage, connected to the outside wash-out booth.
  • One high pressure washer and one back-lit washing booth
  • Three light tables & 7 portable light tables
  • A small digital lab connected to a photo-printmaking dark room
  • One large format (44鈥 w) and one medium format (13鈥漻19鈥) Epson inkjet printers
  • One tabloid capacity HP laser printer
  • One small format digital plotter, one CNC drawing plotter, and one medium-sized CNC router
  • Two tabloid capacity and one letter-sized flatbed scanner
  • Four Mac computers

Graduate Studios Complex

  • A Conrad etching press that accommodates a full-size printmaking paper (E31 Etching Press 鈥 30 1鈦2鈥 x 54鈥) and a basic printing set up