Tyanna J. Buie explores her connections to images, fragmentation, appropriation, the contemporary condition, social media/commentary and identity. She uses traditional and non-traditional printmaking processes, along with video work that utilizes Deep-Fake technology produced through easily accessible tools such as smartphone applications, combining images and texts derived from mass media and referencing significant Black popular cultural moments.
A Chicago and Milwaukee native, Buie earned her BA from Western Illinois University and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has attended artists-in-residency programs, such as the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA, The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, and Project 1612 AIR in Morton, IL. Buie has received numerous awards, including an emerging artist Mary L. Nohl Fellowship in 2012, the Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and the prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2015, the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Visual Arts, the 2019/2020 Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, the 2020 Fellowship.art award, a top accelerator award/program funded through gener8tor, and the 2023 Ruth Arts/Mary L Nohl Alumni Award.
Buie has mounted several solo exhibitions including Embodiment(s) at the Freeport [IL] Art Museum, Re/Faced at the South Bend [IN] Museum of Art and Improvisations at the Alice Wilds Gallery in Milwaukee, WI. She has contributed to many group exhibitions including A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking Exhibition at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN (2021), Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, MI (2022), Get Together at Reyes Finn in Detroit, MI (2023) and Stop Making Sense, PLUS 1 at the Janice Charach Gallery, West Bloomfield Township, MI (2023). She has also maintained a connection to the community by hosting printmaking workshops and demonstrations throughout the country. Buie’s work has been reviewed on Hyperallergic.com and featured on Essay’d.com and New American Paintings, No. 155.
Before joining the faculty at RISD, she was an assistant professor and section chair of Printmaking at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.
The use of light-based print processes is ubiquitous in contemporary printmaking. Light to Ink will lay a foundation of knowledge within the printmaking medium for using light as a part of the image-making process. The class is designed to introduce students to the basics of Printmaking using either hand made, digital or photo-made matrixes. The class will learn to make prints using the traditional print methods of intaglio, lithography and screenprint and build a base of information about the production of the film transparencies from which the matrix is made. Students will be taught the skills necessary to take the photo, computer, or handmade image from a one or a series of positive transparencies to a finished print. From Light to Ink is a starting point for growth and exploration in photo printmaking and an introduction to printing in intaglio, lithography and screenprint. No prior knowledge of printmaking is required. This class is most appropriate for sophomores, juniors and first semester seniors.
Open to Junior, Senior or Graduate Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Printmaking
PRINT 461G-01 - GRADUATE PRINTMAKING I: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE
LevelGraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PRINT 461G-01
GRADUATE PRINTMAKING I: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE
LevelGraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
PeriodFall 2023
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Andrew Raftery, Tyanna BuieEnrolled / Capacity: 8Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Students in the graduate printmaking program will utilize graduate level research and scholarship as an impetus for growth within studio practice. Investigation into historical cycles of printmaking will be fostered through assigned texts and exploration of primary resources available at RISD, especially The RISD Museum. A dialogue stemming from intensive studio work will be developed in varied formats by faculty, visiting artists and peers throughout the semester.
Open to Graduate Painting Students.
Major Requirement | MFA Printmaking
PRINT 463G-01 - GRADUATE PRINTMAKING III: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE
LevelGraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PRINT 463G-01
GRADUATE PRINTMAKING III: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE
LevelGraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
PeriodFall 2023
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Andrew Raftery, Tyanna BuieEnrolled / Capacity: 8Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Students in the graduate printmaking program will utilize graduate level research and scholarship as an impetus for growth within studio practice. Investigation into historical cycles of printmaking will be fostered through assigned texts and exploration of primary resources available at RISD, especially The RISD Museum. A dialogue stemming from intensive studio work will be developed in varied formats by faculty, visiting artists and peers throughout the semester.
Open to Graduate Printmaking Students.
Major Requirement | MFA Printmaking
Spring 2024 Courses
PRINT 4610-01 - WATERBASE SILKSCREEN I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PRINT 4610-01
WATERBASE SILKSCREEN I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
PeriodSpring 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Instructor(s): Tyanna BuieEnrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Students will stretch their own screens and will be introduced to a wide range of stencil techniques (cut film, paper stencil, crayon and glue, tusche and glue, and photo). Students are urged to experiment with stencil and printing techniques to produce a portfolio of editioned prints.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $175.00
Open to Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate Printmaking Students. Major Requirement | BFA Printmaking
