Printmaking Masters Theses

 
Integrating new artistic and technical approaches to printmaking with the great historical traditions of the medium, the MFA program encourages individual artistic growth through the exploration of printed multiples. Exposure to critical insights from faculty, visiting artists and print-world professionals leads to advanced personal work responsive to the issues defining the field. Mastery of intaglio, lithography, screenprint, relief, photo and digital methods – with special emphasis on one area – ensures confidence in the professional arena. MFA candidates in Printmaking also have the opportunity to design and teach a fully accredited course during Wintersession of their second year. In the final semester, degree candidates focus on creating a comprehensive body of work under the guidance of a thesis committee. All MFA candidates produce a written thesis book and participate in the RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, a large-scale public show held annually.

In the final semester, degree candidates focus on creating a comprehensive body of work under the guidance of a thesis committee. All MFA candidates produce a written thesis book and participate in the RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, a large-scale public show held annually.

Graduate Program Director: Andrew Raftery

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Theses from 2024

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Always Been This Way, Joanna Booth

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Unruly and Unresolved: A Shared, Precarious Survival, Sara Inacio

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To the Dogs or Whoever, Jacqueline Walker

Theses from 2023

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Rotten and Falling, Khwanchira Chindamanee

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At the Bend in the Bright River, Andrew Eckhardt

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Soul Furnace / فرن الأرواح, Isa Ghanayem

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Hearts and Minds, Steven Knapp

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Metaphors in Materials and Imagery for Self Reclamation and Empowerment, Janice Lardey

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Objects and Apparitions: A Portable Museum, Yesuk Seo

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A Presence of P____ and W__th, Riley Wilson

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One More Time, I Love You —— 我有所念人,隔在远远乡, Jingjing Yang

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I Buried the Fireworks Under the Tree, Sihan Zhu

Theses from 2021

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Sapping, smudging, staining: a feminized body, Breslin Shea Bell

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Prepositions, Alexis Hill

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All bodies wander, Haley MacKeil

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El suelo en duelo, Mariana Ramos Ortiz

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sometimes like butterflies, Edward Steffanni

Theses from 2020

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Let us for once try to not be right, Merrick Adams

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Recipes, Camille Chew

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The things of mind, Yini Luo

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Things that grew while I looked at the ground, Heather McMordie

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Art beside a single handshake : can you believe it?, Tongji Qian

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Storytelling in arts, Lindi Shi

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Rootless, Lilla Szekely

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How to be simultaneously precise and nondescript, McKinzie Trotta

Theses from 2019

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Human artist, Nicholas Costantino

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Supposing truth is a woman, Chloe Wilwerding

Theses from 2018

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Ghost, a stone, Audrey Blood

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Matriarchy, M. Camila Escobar Vélez

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The contested landscapes of Mnemosyne : constructing maps of memory, Valeria Rachel Herrera

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In exchange, Anna McNeary

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Fungible commodities, Kelly Taylor Mitchell

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Four projects, K. Sarrantonio

Theses from 2017

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Na'aseh : ritual in practice, Anna Henrick Karpatkin Benjamin

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My fish hat kingdom, Mei Fung Elizabeth Chan

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Every change, Ruhan Feng

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Lamination of reality : ever-thickening and thinning space, Leekyung Kang

Theses from 2016

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Modus operandi, Nabil Gonzalez

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& surface, Adam Mickey Porter