ART 224 Intermediate Printmaking

5 credits

Students continue to develop their skills in printmaking by focusing on multiple-plate color printing, advanced intaglio and monoprint techniques, and multi-media stencil printing. Students create repeatable matrices, edition prints, and employ commercial printing methods.

This course meets the Humanities general education distribution requirement.

Prerequisites: ART 124

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

Transfer images to matrices using hand-drawn and photographic methods
Produce color and multi-plate printing matrices for relief, intaglio, and stencil printing
Execute printed editions using two (or more) printmaking media
Print matrices as monoprints to create unique works
Properly operate a variety of printmaking equipment
Print images using hand-printing methods

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