Located on the top floor of the Creative Arts Center, the printmaking facilities are fully equipped for lithography and intaglio, relief, collagraph, as well as silkscreen.  The spacious intaglio shop is equipped for color and black and white work on copper or zinc.  Facilities include a fully ventilated acid room, two hot plates, glass slabs, and a large rosin box.  Presses include a motorized Brand etching press with a bed sized at 36”x60”, a Brand etching press with a bed sized at 28”x50”, and a Conrad press with a bed sized at 18”x36”.  

Above and right are students working on Acrylic based silkscreens.  Silkscreen facilities include a light/vacuum table sized at 40”x60”, with portable screening tables.  All printmaking students have full access to all facilities, as well as a well-equipped Macintosh computer lab.  

The litho shop is set up for color and black and white printing on both stone and aluminum plates.  It has four presses; a Takach press with a bed sized at 48”x72”, two Brand litho presses with beds sized at 30”x50”, and a small Fuchs and Lang litho press with a bed sized at 24”x34”.  

WVU printmaking facilities

intaglio/relief

silkscreen

lithography