MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN STUDIO

PRINTMEDIAsaic.edu/printmedia

Graduate Admissions36 South Wabash Avenue, suite 1201Chicago, IL 60603Phone 312.629.6100 / 800.232.7242 Fax 312.629.6101 gradmiss@saic.edu

Graduate students in SAIC’s Department of Printmedia engage issues of contemporary art by employing a wide variety of printing techniques and developing technologies and media.They work across disciplines to create prints, artists’ books, three-dimensional objects, installations, new media and time arts. The department’s fundamental philosophy is interdisciplinary with a focus on experimentation and the processes of research and discovery necessary to bring ideas from conception to fruition.

The Printmedia department’s distinguished faculty are accomplished artists committed to expanding the notions of print. They are engaged in contemporary theoretical debates, and are committed to building a diverse, exciting environment for the exchange and production of cultural objects, images, and ideas.

All graduate students in the Department of Printmedia are eligible for up to two teaching assistantships per semester where they provide technical and instructional support to faculty in the classroom. TAA positions are also available each semester where two second-year graduate students co-teach an intro level printmaking class.

Application Deadline: January 10

For application requirements, visit saic.edu/apply/mfaprintmedia

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DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS � Associate Professor and Chair Peter Power participated in the Elam

International Printmaking Workshop (EIPW 2015) in New Zealand. He also participated in the 2013 Xi’an International Printmaking Residency and Exhibition in Xi’an, China.

� Associate Professor Ayanah Moor participated in the following group exhibitions: Drawn from the McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (2015); Performing Blackness: Performing Whiteness, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA (2015); Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2014). She was a panelist at the 2014 Afrosurrealism & Afrofuturism in Wangechi Mutu and the 2014 Contemporary Black Art at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL.

� Assistant Professor Shaurya Kumar had a group exhibition, History is ...., at Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India; and an American Printmakers group exhibition in conjunction with the 7th International Print Triennial (2014) at Galley of UBA “Shipka” 6, Sofia, Bulgaria. He was featured in Contemporary American Printmakers, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; 1 edition (January 13, 2015). He was a presenter at Reversible: Narrating Identities from Inside Out and Outside In, a convening of 40 International artists/scholars/curators organized by NYU Abu Dhabi and Google.

� Adjunct Assistant Professor Jeanine Coupe Ryding had the following exhibitions: Tokyo International Prints, group show, Tama Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2015; Four Printmakers, Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, 2015; Cut, Inked, Folded and Stained, one person show, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2014. She published a book, “At the Edge”, Press 928, Evanston, IL (2015).

� Assitant Professor Oli Watt had a solo exhibition at The Ski Club, Milwaukee, WI (2014) and a group exhibition Print or Die: The Past 2 Years at Marsh Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN (20104). He was featured in Contemporary American Printmakers, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; 1 edition (January 13, 2015).

� Alum Drew Peterson (MFA 2014) had his solo exhibition Waterworks at The Burnet Gallery in Minneapolis, Dec. 2014 - Feb. 2015 and group exhibitions at Fernwey Gallery in Chicago (2015) and at Highpoint Center for Printmaking (2015). He was a visiting artist at Oberlin College (March 2015).

� This year Alum Erin Woodbrey (MFA 2015) had a solo exhibition entitled Air of Another Planet, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA. She was a visiting artist lecture at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Nov. 2014).

FULL-TIME FACULTYDOUG HUSTON

SHAURYA KUMAR

AYANAH MOOR

PETER POWER

OLI WATT

CREDIT HOUR SUMMARY

Studio - MFA 6009 Graduate Projects Seminars and/or maximum of 12 credits of 3000 level and above studios

39

Art History - ARTHI 5002 Graduate Survey of Modern and Contemporary Art

3

Art History Electives at the 4000 level or above

9

Electives - Any course in any area at 3000 level or above

9

Participation in four graduate critiques

Participation in the graduate exhibition or equivalent

Total Credit Hours 60

EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES � Individual graduate studios with 24 hour access

� Printmaking facility covering more than 11,000 square feet

� 6 Intaglio/Relief presses

� 15 screen printing stations with 2 large format vacuum tables

� 4 lithography presses and 1 hand offset press

� Offset studio with 4 automated presses and direct-to-plate capabilities

� Darkrooms for screenprinting, 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 Glore Print and Drawing Study Room at the Art Institute of Chicago

For complete faculty listing visit: saic.edu/printmedia