Tyanna Buie

Associate Professor

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.

Courses

Fall 2024 Courses

PRINT - 4523-01 PRINTMAKING AND THE POLITICS OF PROTEST
Level Undergraduate
Unit Printmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PRINTMAKING AND THE POLITICS OF PROTEST

Level Undergraduate
Unit Printmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Instructor(s): Tyanna Buie Location(s): Benson Hall, Room 206; Ewing Multicultural Center, Room 100 Enrolled / Capacity: 12 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Printmaking and The Politics of Protest examines the role of prints and printed matter in
the context of political protest, the power of images, and how artists as well as non-
artists have asserted and supported social justice and sustainability issues through art.
While exploring the historical and structural basis of inequality, students will learn
different theoretical paradigms and techniques for visual analysis in order to understand
how visual media can inscribe and dismantle power and be a catalyst for change while
mediating numerous social, economic, cultural and political differences. More
importantly students will form recognition of their positions in an increasingly pluralistic
world while fostering an understanding of social and cultural differences. This will be
investigated through some of the following methods: lectures, exhibitions, guest
lectures, video, historical art and media, group research initiatives, and the discussion of
and creation of images that define and explore issues impacting our lives.

Elective

PRINT - 461G-01 GRADUATE PRINTMAKING I: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE
Level Graduate
Unit Printmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

GRADUATE PRINTMAKING I: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE

Level Graduate
Unit Printmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Andrew Raftery, Tyanna Buie Enrolled / Capacity: 8 Status: 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.
 

Major Requirement | MFA Printmaking

PRINT - 463G-01 GRADUATE PRINTMAKING III: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE
Level Graduate
Unit Printmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

GRADUATE PRINTMAKING III: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE

Level Graduate
Unit Printmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Andrew Raftery, Tyanna Buie Enrolled / Capacity: 8 Status: 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.

Major Requirement | MFA Printmaking