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# Process and Product: Printmaking

Explore activities, ideas, and artworks to learn more about printmaking techniques- and get inspired to create! This unit features a video with a contemporary working artist who makes prints, image galleries of prints from the National Gallery's collection, an explainer that dives into the basics of printmaking, and a lesson for beginner experimentation with various printmaking techniques. This resource is intended for grades 6-12.

Hear From An Artist About His Work

In this video, artist MasPaz discusses his approach to art and making prints for his community. 

After you watch the video, discuss these questions.
                - What is the source of the artist’s inspiration? 
                - What does MasPaz mean when he says he views his work as an “exercise”?
                - What choices did he make as he planned his prints?
                - What interests you about printmaking? 

Access Spanish-captioned video

Prints From the National Gallery of Art

Artists use different methods of making prints to depict a variety of subjects. As you look at each group of prints, consider these questions.
                - How does each artist use scale, color, line, and shape? 
                - Which printmaking methods do you see? 
                - What preparation steps did do you think the artist took to make the print?
                - Where does the artist repeat a design or pattern?
                - What feeling or story does each print communicate? Why do you think that?
                - What about these prints surprises or inspires you?

Clare Romano, *Calcio (Soccer)*, 1958, woodcut, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.4135

Clare Romano, *Summer Garden*, 1958, color collagraph on red laid paper, Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy, 2016.148.43

Clare Romano, *Grand Canyon*, 1977, color collagraph on wove paper, Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy, 2016.148.44

Clare Romano, *Bridge in the City*, 1955, woodcut, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.4134

**Clare Romano** (1922–2017) was a lifelong printmaker who pioneered collagraphy, a kind of printmaking. Devoted to the practice of printmaking, Romano spent her professional career teaching generations of students to be printmakers.

Romare Bearden, *Iliad*, c. 1970, color monoprint collagraph on Arches paper, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2001.36.1

Romare Bearden, *Untitled (Jazz II)*, 1980, screenprint on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.11

Romare Bearden, *Untitled*, 1983, color lithograph on Rives paper, Gift of Jane and Raphael Bernstein, 2002.115.2

Romare Bearden, *Prelude to Troy (No. 2)*, 1974, collagraph in blue on wove Arches paper, Gift of Yvonne and Richard McCracken and Mary and Jerald Melberg, 2000.58.1

**Romare Bearden** (1911–1988) experimented with different kinds of art, including printmaking. His love for music, literature, and history is evident in his art, and his prints featured repeated themes, like musical instruments. 

Lou Stovall, *Sea to Shining Sea*, 2008, color screenprint on wove paper, Gift of Lou and Di Stovall, 2009.8.1

Lou Stovall, *Breathing Hope*, 1996, color screenprint on wove paper, Gift of Lou, Di Bagley and Will Stovall, 2007.54.1

Lou Stovall, *I Love You*, 1970, color screenprint on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Stovall Graphics), 2015.19.2514

Lou Stovall, *Spirit*, 1971, color screenprint on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Stovall Graphics), 2015.19.2515

**Lou Stovall**(b. 1937) founded the printmaking studio Workshop, Inc., in 1968 in Washington, DC. There he produced his own prints and works by other artists for more than fifty years. His screenprints offer a range of subjects—some abstract, some drawn from nature..

Explore the Basics of Printmaking

Lesson: Storytelling Through Printmaking

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