At Bennington, students work closely with faculty to design the content, structure, and sequence of their study and practice—their Plan—taking advantage of resources inside and outside the classroom to pursue their work. 

The focus of printmaking at Bennington College is to explore, hands on, this versatile and broad contemporary artist medium and its rich history and methodology.

Bennington College boasts two beautiful, multi-use print studios. The studio in our Visual and Performing Arts center permits all levels of work in stone, plate and photo lithography, intaglio, photopolymer gravure, wood block printing, monotype, and screen printing. In addition, our new letterpress studio, the Word and Image Lab, is well-equipped with metal type, a new photopolymer relief platemaker (A3), and two Vandercook presses (#3 and #4).

The print shops and the curriculum are carefully designed to serve a wide range of courses covering many approaches to making art in print media. Everything from introductory course work to professional artist’s editions are produced with fine materials and well-maintained, high-quality machines in studio spaces that welcome a diverse range of artistic sensibilities.

Students who take print courses leave with a strong sense of printmaking as a contemporary artist medium that can feed into all kinds of work across disciplines. They also have an understanding of how their study relates to the history of printing, communication, and technology, and how technology can be manipulated by artists.