I had the chance to stop by Prof. Susan Doyle’s course on printmaking in the RISD ISB (Illustration Studies Building). She was describing the special kind of hand-and-ink coordination necessary when working with the intaglio printmaking process. My takeaway was the kind of “you get one chance” confidence necessary in many of the manual processes for art-making I’ve seen at RISD. Such confidence, and an inherent belief in oneself, can be applied to so many aspects of one’s life.