The UNO Print Workshop marks its 50th Anniversary with a commemorative promotional image featuring a bold “50,” with the zero illustrated as a print wheel, announcing events running January 20 through February 13.
By Abigail Gocek
UNO Print Workshop Celebrates 50th Anniversary
January 16th, 2026
With the purchase of four litho stones, Emeritus Professor Thomas Majeski established the Print Workshop at The University of Nebraska, Omaha in 1976. For 50 years, the Visiting Artists Program has attracted talent from across the globe. The Print Workshop is celebrating their anniversary with the upcoming exhibition titled “Golden”, beginning January 20.
The “Golden” exhibition features a different piece from each year of the workshop’s history. Professor of Printmaking and head of the Print Workshop Howard Paine says the exhibition will showcase the possibility of the medium.
Established in 1976 with a $1,161 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts alongside a matching grant from UNO totaling $2,322, the Print Workshop and Visiting Artist Program marked the beginning of printmaking residencies within the university. Participating artists are invited to produce an edition of multiples or a series of monotypes or monoprints to print relief, intaglio or lithography. With typically only a week to produce each edition or series, the Print Workshop utilizes the collaboration of printmaking students alongside each artist.
The “Golden” exhibition will feature 50 artworks. Each piece will be arranged chronologically, starting from the first artist through the most recent. The Print Workshop will be working with artist Matthew Hopson-Walker to produce a print that is set to be unveiled at the exhibition. The “Golden” exhibition will be open January 20 through February 13 in the UNO Art Gallery, located on the first floor of the Weber Fine Arts Building. A reception for “Golden” will include live demonstrations of the printmaking process and an open house of the Print Workshop February 6 beginning at 5 p.m.
To accompany the exhibition, a Print Workshop Group Conversation will also be held February 5 beginning at noon. Alongside Paine will be Hopson-Walker, Majeski, and the second head of the Print Workshop following Majeski, Gary Day.
For more information about the Print Workshop, visit the Print Workshop under the Arts and Art History section at unomaha.edu.
