Printmaking Faculty & Administrators within the Fine Arts 2D Department
Printmaking students dig deep into traditional printmaking techniques while also being encouraged to play with experimental and innovative approaches.
As a Printmaking student at MassArt, you’ll produce innovative work in a collaborative, creative, and rigorous learning environment. In coursework, you’ll master a broad range of techniques that will allow you to express your ideas with skill. Through programs like Iron Print and the Master Print Series, you’ll gain hands-on experience collaborating with your peers and leading printmakers working in the medium today.
MassArt also offers an MFA in Studio Arts, in which students can choose to concentrate in Printmaking. Our full-time, two-year (60-credit) MFA Studio Arts program encourages students to experiment and explore, while refining the technical and conceptual strategies in their work.
Simonette Quamina
Associate Professor, Printmaking- Faculty
Making a home while making art: Erving couple brings creativity to every project
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The couple started out as friends and artistic peers, having met at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (“MassArt”) in Boston. “Bryant had a printmaking set-up out here in western Mass,” said Schermesser, “and I also did printmaking. I came to visit, and really liked it here.” Friendship blossomed into romance, and the couple went on to marry and raise two sons in their Erving home.
Their collaborations have extended beyond home and family: the couple produced large murals at sites including the Big E and the Greenfield Public Library. Working together and separately, Stewart and Schermesser have produced stunning artwork representing many styles.
Bradford intaglio printmaker J. Ann Eldridge creates connections to the outside world
- MassArt in the Media
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- Printmaking
“I’m not doing anything unusual. Almost anyone can go outside in their backyard and see what I’m seeing. I guess I’m trying to get a connection between people and the outdoors,” she said.
Eldridge, who grew up in central Massachusetts, always loved the natural world and had an early knack for drawing. While studying at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Eldridge says she found printmaking upon discovering she was a “terrible painter,” and later learned the intricacies of the intaglio process from a woman in Worcester, whose etching press Eldridge would later inherit.
4 Local Artists Share Their Inspiration
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“Describing herself as someone who “finds beauty in the ordinary,” Maggie Stickney’s life and art are anything but mundane. A mother of three daughters, Stickney finds time to paint in the rare moments of quiet when everyone is otherwise occupied or out of the house. She grew up on Long Island and then earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Ultimately, she moved to Fairhope, where her husband grew up, and has been raising her family along the Bay ever since.”
Visual Artist Works | Opal Ecker DeRuvo
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“Opal Ecker DeRuvo is a transfeminine transdisciplinary artist and collaborative printmaker. Using historic photo-processes, large scale image transfers onto architectural substrates, and laser imaging techniques (re-engineered from machine vision technology), their practice connects the materiality of photography with experiences of trans-embodiment.
“They began printmaking as an apprentice to a master printmaker at the age of 14 and received their BFA in printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. For 6 years following their BFA they worked as a collaborative printmaker at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk CT. They grew up in a family of darkroom photographers, during their MFA at Yale in the painting and printmaking department their work has come to investigate the origins of photography within the materials and history of printmaking.”
Monika Plioplyte is a multi-disciplinary artist merging printmaking, sculpture, performance, and photography. Born in Lithuania, Plioplyte grew up in Boston, MA. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (‘12) and an MFA in Print Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (‘19). Plioplyte currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
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