UNM Printmaking is a nationally recognized area in the Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts. A comprehensive program is offered for under-graduate and graduate students in studio art leading to BFA and MFA degrees. The faculty emphasizes a strong foundation and diversity in aesthetic and technical direction for students.
Lithography was a new field at UNM in 1963, when Clinton Adams, Dean of Fine Arts, committed himself to the development of the program. Previously Adams had been Associate Director of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, and worked with June Wayne, the founder of Tamarind, and with Garo Antreasian, Tamarind's first technical Director. As a result of the efforts and connection, Garo Antreasian joined the faculty in 1964, and Tamarind workshop was moved to Albuquerque in 1970, and established as Tamarind Institute with clinton Adams as director. The printmaking area expanded under Antreasian's direction, with the addition of Jane Abrams, and Jim Kraft. Later work shops were taught by John Sommers, who also held the position of Technical Director at Tamarind Institute. With the eventual retirement of Professors Emeritus Antreasian and Abrams, Lydia Madrid and Jose Rodriguez joined the faculty. More recently, with Rodriguez deciding to leave teaching, Yoshiko Shimano became the newest addition to the Printmaking facualty. Virginia Yen is lab coordinator and also manages the Paper Closet.
The printmaking area offers a full range of courses in lithography, intaglio, serigraphy, and also offers topics courses in relief, monoprinting, photo/digital processes for printmaking and book arts. A collaborative course is offered during the Spring term at Tamarind Institute, which coordinates the efforts of studio students and the Tamarind apprentice-students.
Complementing the established curriculum, visiting artists offer workshops, lectures and critiques. Students and faculty participate in yearly traveling/exchange exhibitions of prints with other institutions.
The UNM Art Museum maintains a print collection of approximately 10,000 original prints, over half of the collection being an archive of Tamarind lithographs, all of which are accessible to students and faculty. The Museum also houses some 20,000 works on paper and 8,500 photographs. The printmaking area has its own collection of students prints for teaching and exhibition purposes, reflecting the technical scope and interests of past and current students' enrolled in the program.
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