printmaking

noun

print·​mak·​ing ˈprint-ˌmā-kiŋ How to pronounce printmaking (audio)
: the design and production of prints by an artist
printmaker noun

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The Anderson Ranch is a four-and-a-half-acre art center that offers classes in pottery, ceramics, sculpture, painting, printmaking, 3D fabrication, woodworking, and metalworks, to people of all ages and all abilities. Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025 First-year coursework in liberal arts is expanded upon via access to production studios for film, video, 16mm, 35mm and puppet animation, as well as a dedicated printmaking studio, digital tools and state-of-the-art VR. Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025 Bochner also pursued this category of work in printmaking, collaborating with Two Palms Press on enormous monoprints, aggressive in character and experimental in technique, that tested the limits of the medium. Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025 Her work, as showcased in the exhibition, relied heavily on lithography, a printmaking process in which a design is drawn on stone, treated with gum arabic, and subsequently inked and printed. Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for printmaking

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First Known Use

1795, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of printmaking was in 1795

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“Printmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/printmaking. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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