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BALLMAN-SPEER 104: the Printmaking Studio PRINTMAKING—the process of creating multiple “impressions” from a single “matrix” bearing the image to be printed—now survives primarily as an art form, but, says Professor Ernest Cialone, “Printmaking by hand techniques was the internet of its day. It was the only way to distribute images widely.”
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1. Cialone(s): After finishing his associate
degree at Westark in 1978, Professor Ernest Cialone—his students call him simply “Cialone”—went on to Fayetteville for his bachelor’s and then the University of North Dakota for a Master of Fine Arts. Since returning to UA Fort Smith as faculty in 1991, he’s taught more or less the whole range of visual arts courses and now mentors instructors of drawing and 2D design. “I even taught art history when we were strapped for a couple years there,” Cialone says, “and learned to enjoy teaching it my own way.”