Printmaking

The printmaking area maintains an active visiting artists program (over a dozen artists in the last four years alone), and students get the opportunity to work along-side many of these artists to create new editions of work. Recent artists have included Lillian Pitt, John Hitchcock, Melanie Yazzie, Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, Duane Slick. We have collaborated with the Missoula Art Museum aspart of two Warhol Foundation grants in an initiative to bring in Indigenous artists to work with students.

For more information on Matrix Press and to see the exciting work produced by the artists with help from UM student print assistants visit our website at www.matrixpress.org and FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAMMontana.matrix.press

The Steamroller Print Project started in 2000, as a means to get students, artists and the community to come together in a cooperative event to celebrate art and community.

Students carve large-scale relief (woodcut) printing blocks which are printed during a culminating all-day outdoor event with a road-construction steamroller. Many participants showcase their prints in Missoula’s Annual Parade ofRemembrance, and also exhibited around town and in venues like the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, California. Since its initial year, the project has grown to include students from local elementary schools, middle schools and high schools, along with neighboring institutions and artists from the community.

For further information and to see videos and pictures of past events go to: www.steamrollerprintproject.com