Silverman will be using her Whiting Foundation fellowship in conjunction with a sabbatical in the spring of 2013 to delve further into the study of printmaking. She will research the use of nontoxic, safer techniques used to create intaglio prints and explore how she can utilize these printmaking methods to produce a new body of her own artwork. Silverman will travel to a printmaking studio in Edinburgh, Scotland, and to Aberystwyth University in Wales, where she will study alternative printmaking methods with Andrew Baldwin.