The Printmaking program embraces a full range of media and methods that enables printmakers to participate in the dialogue of contemporary art and culture. Students are encouraged to explore the multiple possibilities of print to develop an individual and sustained pathway as an artist, whether printmaking is the central practice or the support for other processes.

The program encourages interdisciplinary projects and collaborations with students in the Graphic Design, Illustration, Painting/Drawing, Photography, Textiles, and Writing and Literature programs.

Along with a dedication to teaching students to create expressive works, faculty members have a commitment to sustaining a strong community and a supportive working environment. They bring diverse approaches and professional practices to the studio classroom.

The program offers five studios on the Oakland campus.

• The main shop has a large French Tool etching press, two other etching presses, two lithography presses, and more than 100 litho stones.
• A second studio is mainly for relief printing and critique.
• A third studio is a combined screen/photo printmaking and papermaking / book arts studio. It has a large exposing table, a screen wash-out area, and a coating facility, each in separate rooms. The papermaking equipment includes a Hollander beater, a hydropulper, numerous molds of various sizes, and couching screens to practice an Eastern-Western technique.
• The fourth studio is dedicated to book arts and contains two Vandercook letterpresses, a large type press, a photopolymer platemaker, several hundred cases of wood and metal type, and bookbinding equipment.
• The fifth studio is a dedicated small print shop with an etching press for seniors and graduate students.

There is also a space for rotating student exhibitions. Lastly, the program offers digital film and paper output options for photographic processes and a digital printmaking course.