14 “Five years ago, when I was applying for jobs, which ultimately led me to VSU, every single school that I was speaking with was asking, ‘What do you know about technology? What do you know about three-dimensional printing?’” Heuss said. “And I had to say nothing. Our students, as they leave here and apply to jobs or graduate schools, will be able to show in their portfolios examples of how they’ve been doing that.” Sean Hurley, assistant professor of art, teaches the newest as well as the oldest techniques in his courses on printmaking. “The cool thing about printmaking is that it’s a lineage that starts in basically the 1300s, and most of the methods that we use in my classes are rooted in ways that were practiced hundreds of years ago,” he said. “We do them both the same way they were done at that time, but we also add technology and update them.” One of the oldest and most complex methods of printmaking is lithography. The technique involves drawing a design on the surface of a limestone slab or aluminum plate and using the repulsion of oil and water to make a print.