ART 324 Printmaking for Designers

5 credits

This course explores relief, monotype, monoprint, intaglio (dry and wet techniques), and stencil printmaking. Additional media are introduced for historical background. Students research the historical evolution of print graphic arts and forge connections between traditional print media and modern commercial print design.

This course meets the Humanities general education distribution requirement.

Prerequisites: Admission to the BAS in Design program or admission to the BAS Applied Art - Illustration program.

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Transfer images to a matrix
Execute highly consistent printed editions in a variety of printmaking media
Paint and print monotype prints
Use the elements and principles of design to produce relief, intaglio, and stencil prints
Properly operate an etching printing press
Translate a student-designed font into relief printmaking
Print images using hand-printing methods
Describe historical connections between contemporary print/web technology and traditional printmaking technologies

General Education Distribution Area Outcomes
Students who successfully complete courses in the Humanities distribution area will be able to:

Discuss and explain methods of creative expression, social interaction, and aesthetic considerations employed by individuals and societies
Employ methods of intellectual and creative inquiry central to the selected Humanities course of study, using the vocabulary, concepts, historical perspectives and materials common to the chosen area
Dependent on the Humanities area selected, interpret specific artifacts from art, film, history, language, literature, philosophy, religious thought, or narrative form and develop one’s own viewpoint or artifact using the techniques common to that area

Total Hours: 60 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 40 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 20