What a wonderful printmaking facility the Department of Art and Art History is able to provide. The printmaking studio is a large, spacious and airy place which accommodates three of the four traditionally recognized processes: Relief (woodcut, linocut, and monotype); Intaglio (drypoint, etching, and collagraph); and Serigraphy (silkscreening and t-shirt/fabric printing).

The space includes a large classroom/working area, an acid room, a solvent cleaning room, two dark rooms, and two storage spaces. The classroom functions as a lecture and demonstration area as well as a work area which includes 18 work stations, three cleaning sinks, lots of counter space, additional work benches, and walls for display. The printmaking studio is equipped with a G5 Mac computer and peripherals, two 4-color t-shirt printing units, a curing unit, three etching presses (small, medium, and large), a hot plate, a designated paper soak sink, drying racks, paper and mat cutters, light boxes, and plenty of flat paper storage cabinets.

The individual rooms function for specialized activities, such as: photo etch; vertical and flat tray etching acid baths; silkscreen photo direct and indirect exposing; solvent cleaning; and deep sink screen water clean-up. The studio is well adapted to plastisol, water- and oil-based inking techniques.

Printmaking classes are offered to the Studio Art major as well as the non-major. Approximately 95-105 students enroll in lower and upper division courses each semester. Here we are waiting for you!

Contact Teresa Munoz for details at 310-338-7424

You may also email her at tmunoz@lmu.edu