In the related course (AFVS 215), taught by Jennifer L. Roberts (History of Art and Architecture) and Matt Saunders (Art, Film, and Visual Studies), students explore printmaking as both makers and scholars. Moving between the studio, the seminar room, and the museum, they learn multiple print techniques and study fundamental themes in the history and theory of printmaking.

The subsections of the installation, which cut across the grain of the course syllabus, consider prints in a field of matter, space, energy, and time. Prints can slip between dimensions and open portals between worlds. Prints can store and release energy or hold fluid substances in suspension. Prints can host a burst of biological imagination or offer an encounter with the silent eternity of stone. In the unorthodox groupings on these walls, new approaches to the medium and new avenues for research are waiting to be discovered.