ART 150 Beginning Printmaking (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
A studio course covering the processes of printmaking. Methods used will include the Intaglio and Relief processes. Students will leave with both a knowledge of how to make original hand-pulled prints and a knowledge of historical printmaking practices.
Course Content
A. Exploration of solar plate printmaking.
B. Introduction study of monoprint and monotype printmaking.
C. Create dry-point prints.
D. Exposure to etching techniques.
E. Expand awareness of relief printmaking practices including woodcut and linocut prints.
F. Survey of historical and contemporary printmaking history.
Student Outcomes
- Create original hand pulled prints which demonstrate the ability to interpret the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional picture plane.
- Identify project-appropriate paper types and registration printing methods.
- Demonstrate the printing process by preparing plates or other print matrices.
- Demonstrate the safe use of materials in a print making studio.
- Demonstrate understanding of history, materials, and artists’ contributions to the tradition of fine art printmaking.
- Reflect on how the medium of printmaking is/has been used in various contexts (e.g. political, economic, cultural etc.)
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 35
Lab Contact Hours 30
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 65
Potential Methods
1. Individual critiques
2. Compare/contrast-compare and contrast essay questions
3. Image identification
4. Museum and gallery visits
5. Artist presentations/both written and verbal presentations
6. Print exchanges
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