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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 2026 2026

Love In Passing Time, Elysa T. Adams

RESISTANT SILENCE Engraved Trauma, Silence in Domestic Spaces, & Acts of Resistance, Priyanka Kumar

破酆都 Calling Her Through the Gates, Yuqi Liu

IF THE SUN WERE AS BIG AS MY HEART, WHAT WOULD BE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE SUN AND THE EARTH? OR HOW TO DOMESTICATE THE SUN, Catalina Martinez and Catalina Martinez Rojas

Through You I Will Feel, Mitchell L. Poon

DEEP CUTS: BEARING WITNESS TO THE EROSION OF EVIDENCE, Maya Lakshmi Srinivasan MD

Lost in the Current, Yeying Wen

Theses from 2025 2025

THE BLUE BELOW STILL BREATHES, Yiyi Wang

Silent Veins, Yinghan Zhang

Theses from 2024 2024

Always Been This Way, Joanna Booth

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

To the Dogs or Whoever, Jacqueline Walker

Theses from 2023 2023

Rotten and Falling, Khwanchira Chindamanee

At the Bend in the Bright River, Andrew Eckhardt

Soul Furnace / فرن الأرواح, Isa Ghanayem

Hearts and Minds, Steven Knapp

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

Objects and Apparitions: A Portable Museum, Yesuk Seo

A Presence of P____ and W__th, Riley Wilson

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

I Buried the Fireworks Under the Tree, Sihan Zhu

Theses from 2021 2021

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

Prepositions, Alexis Hill

All bodies wander, Haley MacKeil

El suelo en duelo, Mariana Ramos Ortiz

sometimes like butterflies, Edward Steffanni

Theses from 2020 2020

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

Recipes, Camille Chew

The things of mind, Yini Luo

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

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

Storytelling in arts, Lindi Shi

Rootless, Lilla Szekely

How to be simultaneously precise and nondescript, McKinzie Trotta

Theses from 2019 2019

Human artist, Nicholas Costantino

Supposing truth is a woman, Chloe Wilwerding

Theses from 2018 2018

Ghost, a stone, Audrey Blood

Matriarchy, M. Camila Escobar Vélez

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

In exchange, Anna McNeary

Fungible commodities, Kelly Taylor Mitchell

Four projects, K. Sarrantonio

Theses from 2017 2017

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

My fish hat kingdom, Mei Fung Elizabeth Chan

Every change, Ruhan Feng

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

Theses from 2016 2016

Modus operandi, Nabil Gonzalez

& surface, Adam Mickey Porter