848 Printmaking

Students will discover and develop personal imagery while learning several types of printmaking techniques including relief, mono print, serigraph (silkscreen,) solar plate etching, collagraph, and digital printing. Images are constructed through collage, drawing, and painting on or carving into surfaces such as rubber, wood, metal or plastic. These are inked and transferred to paper by hand, printing press, or silkscreen. Often several impressions will be pulled from one printing plate and combined with another.

The emphasis in this semester-long class is on gaining technical, conceptual, and formal skills while developing a student’s ideas through various types of printing and mixed media combinations. Critiques, slide talks, and videos contribute to student understanding of the history, concepts and processes behind printmaking.

Students can elect to take this semester long class more than once.

A lab fee is charged for this course.