What are the best ways to get a job in the field of printmaking?
There are no jobs, as such, in the field of printmaking. There are jobs in university teaching (not so easy to get) and as a printer or printer’s assistant in the many professional print shops like Ken Tyler Graphics, Pyramid Atlantic (Maryland), Lakeside Studios (Chicago) and many smaller ones. Among university-affiliated print studios, there is Tamarind Institute (University of New Mexico), Graphicstudio (University of South Florida), The Rutgers Center for Innovative Prints and Paper (Rutgers University) and others. I think most of the printer, curator positions in these shops are “staff” rather than “faculty” positions. Initiative and persistence are the keys to success as an artist. One of the best graduate students I ever had established a little silk screen business called the “Blind Dog Press” to sustain himself and contribute to his family (his wife was/is a journalist). He printed on order T-shirts. I think it lasted four or five years until he landed a teaching position at t
