The University of Iowa established the medium of printmaking as a major artistic discipline, led by Mauricio Lasansky (1914-2012), whose work was featured in the inaugural exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1967.
Our faculty today continue Iowa's printmaking legacy, attracting students, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world. They exhibit work internationally—including in biennial faculty art exhibitions on the University of Iowa campus—and are regularly invited to speak and teach at art schools, museums, and galleries. In addition, the printmaking area educates the public, using large collections of works in the UI Stanley Museum of Art and the School of Art and Art History Office of Visual Materials.
Visiting artists in printmaking
- 2015
Jason Urban, public lecture and studio visits
Jeff Barnett-Winsby, public lecture and studio visits
Ryan Standfest, lithography project and public lecture
Calder Quartet, discussion and performance at Studio Arts
Drew Cameron, Combat Paper Project lecture and demonstration - 2014
Pop-up museum "Worth Fighting For," collaboration with Liz Lerman and Hancher Auditorium
Shannon Finnegan, public lecture and Silkscreen classroom visit/discussion
Liz Lerman, studio arts discussion
Waswo X. Waswo, public lecture
Crystal Wagner, public lecture
Gary Setzer, public performance at Public Space One - 2013
Nathan Lambert, seminar
Kathryn Myers, public lecture (with SASP)
Stan Shellaberger and Dutes Miller, residency and lecture
Aaron Sinift + the 5-Year Project (with SASP)
Michael Krueger, lithograph and relief print - 2012
Rudy Pozzatti and Susan Goldman, print collaboration
Stephen Goddard, graduate seminar and lecture
Kathryn Myers, lecture and seminar (with SASP)
Midwest Matrix Symposium
Hartmut Austen and Jeremy Lundquist, 2012-2013 Grant Wood Fellows, "Shoptalks" presentations
Melanie Herzog, "Elizabeth Catlett and her Artistic Legacy" lecture
Jean Sanders, "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Why I like Fierce Looking Animals" lecture
Kathryn Myers, lecture - 2011
Piotr Szyhalski, "We Are Working All The Time! (Selected Artworks from the Labor Camp Project)" lecture
Randy Bolton, "Nothing More; Nothing Less & Other Prints: Toward an Expanded Definition of Contemporary Printmaking" lecture
Adriane Herman, lecture - 2010
Lisa Bulawsky, "Shiftland" lecture
Nichole Maury, lecture
Combat Paper Project, lecture and poetry reading
T.L. Solien, lecture
Sarah Smelser, "Confessions of a Pack Rat" lecture - 2009
Anupam Sud, intaglio lecture (with SASP)
Melanie Yazzie, Monoprint + Lithograph
Elizabeth Dove, "Passing Time" lecture
Melanie Yazzie, "Sharing Processes and Tradition from a Contemporary Navajo Printmaker" lecture
Bryan Baker, "One Thing Turning Into Another" lecture - 2008
Dennis O’Neil, lecture and encaustic screen-printing workshop
Jennifer Yorke, lecture
Susan Goldman, lecture and relief print
Kristin Powers Nowlin, lecture and digital print
Heather Corley, "I Am Your Lovesicle" lecture
Jeff Sippel, "Influences Create Magical Secrets" lecture 2007
Amit Kumar Jain, lecture
Georgia Deal, lecture and pulp printing workshop
Tom Ashcraft, lecture
Lothar Osterburg, lecture and photogravure workshop
Printmaking faculty
Tom Christison
Terry Conrad
Anita Jung
Heather Parrish