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.
Celebrate 100 years with us at a reception for the artists on Thursday, November 6, 2025, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
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.
CENTENNIAL: University of Miami Print Exchange 2025 is on view through January 16, 2026, at the College of Arts & Sciences, Ashe 140 Gallery, 1252 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146.
