Andrew Stein Raftery is a printmaker specializing in narrative scenes of contemporary American life. Trained in painting and printmaking at Boston University and Yale, he has focused on burin engraving for the past 12 years, publishing the portfolios Suit Shopping in 2002 and Open House in 2008. Both projects were exhibited at Mary Ryan Gallery in New York and were collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the British Museum. In 2003 Raftery received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and in 2008 he was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was elected to membership in the National Academy in 2009.
Art historical research is closely aligned with Raftery’s studio practice. In his position as professor of printmaking at RISD, he often collaborates with the RISD Museum on exhibitions and educational programs, recently as consulting curator for The Brilliant Line: The Journey of the Early Modern Engraver, fall 2009 at the RISD Museum and at the Block Museum at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is a recipient of RISD’s John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
PRINT 461G-01 - GRADUATE PRINTMAKING I: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE
LevelGraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2024
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 2024
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
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.
Major Requirement | MFA Printmaking
PRINT 463G-01 - GRADUATE PRINTMAKING III: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PRACTICE
LevelGraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Fall 2024
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 2024
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
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.
Major Requirement | MFA Printmaking
Spring 2025 Courses
PRINT 2712-01 - PRINTED WALLS: WALLPAPER DESIGN, TECHNIQUE AND HISTORY
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PRINT 2712-01
PRINTED WALLS: WALLPAPER DESIGN, TECHNIQUE AND HISTORY
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PMInstructor(s): Andrew RafteryLocation(s): Benson Hall, Room 101Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course addresses RISD’s Mission through a stunning exhibition from the Museum’s permanent collection, deep learning for students across design and fine arts and engagement with the public through a ground-breaking museum education program that embeds the classroom in the museum.
The RISD Museum has an extraordinary collection of historic French wallpapers that will be on view from November 2024 through May 2025. Students from Printmaking,
Textiles, Interior Architecture, Furniture and other disciplines will interact with the exhibition, other wallpapers at the museum and in archives and interiors in Providence. Skills will be shared at every step and a broad view of pattern and ornament will draw from printed art, textiles and sculptural/architectural ornament from many cultures. Students will develop new designs to be realized using reconstructed historical and innovative contemporary printing methods.
The RISD Museum Education Department is integral to the curriculum. Drawing on the expertise of our museum educators, students will participate in ongoing education programs under their supervision. Our classroom, the highly visible Museum Common Room on the first floor of the Chace Center, willed be filled with work in progress and students will install completed wallpapers around the RISD campus.
