The VCUarts Department of Painting + Printmaking is a vibrant community centered on both practice and research. Students build skills in painting, drawing and printmaking but are also given opportunities to participate in an expanded field that includes socially engaged practices, creative coding, video, performance and more.
We offer both B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in addition to interdisciplinary models of education in partnership with other areas across the university. Alumni from this program have gone on to careers as artists, teachers, gallerists, curators, arts administrators and master printers.
Painting + Printmaking also offers a range of public programs including lectures and studio visits with artists, curators and critics, exhibitions and open studios.
Our alumni include recipients of numerous awards and fellowships. Alumni exhibit their work throughout the world, attend prestigious residency programs, hold teaching positions, are entrepreneurs and maintain active studio careers.
Degree Programs
The Work
Post Opera
Suzy Slykin
Post Opera is a performance and installation exploring medicalization, labor, desire, belief and transformation.
Glossed Over
Rebecca Oh
¡Bip Bip!
Diego Pablo Málaga
Wondering and Wandering
Madeleine Herisson-Leplae
Screens: Monitor #1
Catherine Chen
Timeout
Alex K Bacon
Vamonos Maricas!
Nathan Hosmer Nevarez
Reap What You Sew
Katherine Perez-Hernandez
Spring
Katherine Perez-Hernandez
For Harriett
Grubb Grubb
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are Teachers and Doers
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