CENTENNIAL

UM Print Exchange 2025

The Department of Art & Art History proudly presents CENTENNIAL: University of Miami Print Exchange 2025, a dynamic exhibition celebrating the creative contributions of alumni and faculty from the last 32 years. Curated by Professor Emeritus, Lise Drost, the show highlights a diverse range of printmaking practices that honor the university’s artistic legacy.

When Lise Drost began teaching at the University of Miami in 1993, she introduced the tradition of a print exchange each semester, a common practice among communities of printmaking artists to make editions of prints to exchange with one another. The Centennial Exchange brings together students and faculty from the last 32 years with the instruction to make a series of 28 multiples using either traditional print or digital means. The group includes BFA and MFA alumni from 1994 to 2024, some former and current faculty, and an impressive range of imagery and approaches to contemporary printmaking. Media in the exhibition include etching, woodcut, reduction linoleum, risograph, silkscreen, collograph, letterpress, monotype, and luminography.

In addition to Lise Drost, the participants are Jennifer Basile, Abraham Camayd, Christine Di Staola, Thomas J. Engleman, Kari Fernandez, Daniele Gabriel, Nicole Hand, Kathleen Hudspeth, Catherine Kramer, Eddy A. Lopez, Victoria Rose Martin, Randi Matushevitz, John McCaffrey, Charlisa Montrope, Brian Reedy, Rachel Alderton Rippes, Beatriz Rodriguez, Claudia Scalise, Barbara Scheer, Lani Shapton, Scott Smith, Jeannette Stargala, Jonathan Beaumont Thomas, Kyle Trowbridge and Tom Virgin.

Printmaking was first introduced to the University of Miami curriculum by George Merrick’s younger brother, Richard, who was born in Coconut Grove in 1903 and studied at the Art Students League in New York in the early 1920s, and taught at the University beginning in the 1930s and again after a tour of duty in World War II, up until 1969. Much of the print equipment he acquired is still in use by students in the Rainbow Building printmaking facility.


Jennifer Basile Bear Lake 2 Reduction Linocut	Abraham Camayd Pinball Luminogram Negative	Christine Di Staola Tutto Torna o Niente Torna Screen or digital ink monoprint + rubbings of Letterpress type	Lise Drost Centennial Print Silkscreen, hand-colored etching on inkjet background

Thomas J. Engleman If My Eyes Were Open Silkscreen	Kari Fernandez 10 AM Reflections Risograph Print	Daniele Gabriel Twilight Reverie Digital Print	Nicole Hand Targeted Remains Etching and Screenprint

Kathleen Hudspeth Certain Uncertainties Color Viscosity Monotype with Graphite Additions	Catherine Kramer Citrus Sweet, Hot Summer Heat Intaglio and embossing	Eddy A. López Güegüense Silkscreen on amate paper	Victoria Rose Martin Marsh Rabbit and Key Deer Digital Print

Randy Matushevitz Animal Nature Digital print	John McCaffrey Not That Cold Six Color Relief Print	Charlise Montrope Dancing through the Diaspora Color Linocut	Brian Reedy Sebastian Linocut

Rachel Alderton Rippes Looming Woodcut	Beatriz Rodriguez But I'm Not There, I'm Gone Color Reduction Relief Print	Claudia Scalise Constellation Handcolored etching with chine-collé	Barbara Scheer Centenary Mashup Relief Collograph and Silkscreen

Lani Shapton Starting Positions:Vibrations Silkscreen	Scott Smith Vida Silkscreen and Spray Paint Stencil	Jeanette Stargala What Eludes Serigraph, hole punched, With mirror film	Jonathan Beaumont Thomas Next Light Etching and Aquatint

Kyle Trowbridge Do Your Dreams Match Your Talents? Toner and Acrylic Paint	Tom Virgin After WDB Letterpress print from a polymer plate, and metal and wood type