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Introduction to Printmaking (ARTS 3201 R)

Term: 2024-2025 Academic Year Fall

Faculty

Vera Iliatova
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Schedule

Tue, 3:05 PM - 6:05 PM (9/2/2024 - 12/13/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 109
Thu, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (9/2/2024 - 12/13/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 109

Description

This course is designed to introduce students to a range of printing techniques while also assisting them in developing individual visual imagery through the language of printmaking. Students will work with intaglio, relief, monotype, and monoprint techniques. As means to explore their individual idea, students will investigate a wide range of possibilities offered by printmaking techniques and will experiment with inks and paints, stencils, multiple plates, and images altered in sequence. Students will develop drawing skills through the printmaking medium and experiment with value structure, composition, mark-making, and interaction of color. Students will begin to develop a method to investigate meaning, or content, through the techniques of printmaking. There will be an examination of various strategies that fluctuate between specific in-class assignments and individual studio work. In-class assignments will be supplemented with PowerPoint presentations, reading materials, video cli