Course Syllabus

Printmaking

(This course can be taken more than once)

Everyday we deal with printed images. Anything that is made in a reproducible format is technically a print. Photocopies, rubber stamps, newspapers, photographs, posters, your favorite concert t-shirt, and the page that you print from your desktop printer or the your post on Instagram

Fine art printmaking is usually defined through the technical process of relief (wood cuts, linocuts, styrofoam prints,) intaglio (etching,), lithography/planography, and serigraphy/silkscreen. In this course, you will be introduced to monoprinting by either traditional plate monoprints or Gelli pates,  relief printing by styrofoam or linocut, and etching and/or silkscreen. If you elect to continue your studies in Printmaking by repeating this course, new digital processes, which have recently been added to the printmaking mix, will be explored and incorporated into your printmaking tool kit as well as further exploration of the printmaking techniques that you have learned. 

As with any artistic enterprise, the medium or process exists as the means to realize an idea. 

Grades are point based using the Art Department Rubrics.

Standard 1: Technique

Skill 1A: Use of media and tools.  Skill 1B: Composition.

Standard 2: Idea Development

Skill 2A: Planning. Skill 2B: Artistic Voice. Skill 2C: Artistic content. Skill 2D: Transformation and Growth.

Standard 3: Artistic Process

Skill 3A: Time Management. Skill 3B: Content Knowledge. 3C: Presentation.

Reduction Linocut Print.                  Styrofoam Print.                            4 Color Silkscreen print