One of our renowned Fine Art program’s four specializations, students who choose Printmaking as their focus combine a deeply interdisciplinary program with classic and experimental printmaking processes. You will benefit from an extensive Lithography collection and contemporary practices established by some of the most influential artists of the last fifty years. If you think big and want to make a statement while developing your technical prowess, this program is for you.
Printmaking is a deeply interdisciplinary form, and most students will work in multiple fields including photography, drawing, painting, textiles, and design.
In the Fine Arts program, courses cover practical skill development and concepts in four traditional arts (drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking) allowing the student to mix and match techniques and forms for their own unique aesthetic.
After Foundation year, students start learning classic printmaking processes—lithography, screenprinting, relief, intaglio, letterpress, monotype, and book arts—combining with post-modern processes of collaboration, appropriation, and dissemination for a well-rounded, complementary program.
As students progress, they will have the opportunity to work with a variety of traditional approaches, experiment with new concepts, and develop hybrid ways of working.
NSCAD has had an historical influence on printmaking, dating back to 1969 when it hosted its now-legendary Lithography Workshop produced seminal works by Joyce Weiland (“O Canada”), John Baldessari (“I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art”) and Sol Lewitt (“Drawing Instructions”).
FOUNDATION PROGRAM: You will start your NSCAD degree with an immersive Foundation studies program. This first year introduces you to all the disciplines and practices we teach at NSCAD, and it will equip you with the critical and creative skills you need to thrive in art and design school.
The Fine Arts printmaking facilities are in a picturesque loft-style area on the Fountain campus. After Foundation year, you will have nearly unlimited access to printmaking facilities – an essential component of a studio-intensive degree. Our facilities are extensive, with equipment that offers you the ability to work in lithography, intaglio, screen printing, monoprinting, relief and digital imaging, and book arts.
In addition to our core printmaking facilities, NSCAD has the Dawson Print Shot, one of Canada’s most extensive collections of functional typographic material. It has a wide variety of historic letterpress printing technologies and 1,500 cases of metal and wooden type.
Our faculty come from diverse backgrounds and are accomplished artists, scholars, educators, and leaders in their craft—offering students a wide range of skills, information and opinion. Through mentorship, practice and discussion, you will form and articulate an awareness of the historical and conceptual roots of your work.
A Fine Arts degree provides graduates with many options in and out of the cultural sector. Many go on to become practicing artists, commercial illustrators, animators, designers, curators, arts administrators, and entrepreneurs.
