VISA1210A | Big Woodcut | In Big Woodcut the emphasis will be on printing on a large scale, and the use of various types of paper. A community print using a steamroller as a printing press is the culminating event of this course. |
VISA1210G | Silkscreen | This course will provide students with a thorough knowledge of both water-based screen printing techniques and digital imaging. The intersection of digital printing processes and screen printing within the context of contemporary works on paper will be explored through a series of experimental mixed-media projects. Work will be in both black and white and color. Silkscreen techniques are also covered in a topics based printmaking course titled Political Constructions VISA120L. |
VISA1210J | Making Monotypes | The aim of the course is to understand the variability, sequencing potential and the inherent luminosity of the monotype medium and to use these attributes to discover and advance one's own visual ideas. Monotype refers to the making of a single unique print through press and non-press means. Several rapid projects with themes will precede a longer series culminating in a final epic portfolio of independent content. Individual, peer, and small and large group critiques will occur weekly for feedback. Students who are not admitted during pre-registration or were unable to pre-register should attend the first meeting. |
VISA1210K | Digital Printmaking: Pixel, Paint, Print | This studio art course investigates possibilities for using the computer along with traditional painting and printmaking processes to produce image-based work. Students will explore how computers and computer networks have changed the creation, content, form, distribution, and exhibition of artwork through a series of assignments, readings, discussions, and slide lectures, and how computers and digital media can intersect with a traditional studio practice. Students will produce a portfolio of mixed-media work. Photoshop, Illustrator, the Internet and digital printers, along with traditional painting, drawing, and printing mediums will be used as tools for art-making. |
VISA1210L | Lithography | Lithography is the most versatile printmaking process. Working on limestone and aluminum plates, students will learn to produce, process and print their work in black and white. Class participation is vital, as students will be aiding each other in this complicated process. This course requires considerable time outside of class. |
VISA1210M | Collaboration & Community in Print | Students will be introduced to printmaking through four main techniques: relief, drypoint, collograph, and paper stencils. Just as each collaborator brings a new voice to a project, each medium affords a different mark-making style to a print. Working within these mediums, students will explore the potential for rich layered imagery, and robust variable editions. |
VISA1240 & VISA1250 | Art of the Book | This course examines the book, structurally and conceptually, as artist’s medium. Students will learn the materials, tools and techniques of making books, as they explore the expressive and narrative possibilities of the book form. Topics and projects may include digital imaging, combining text and image, traditional binding or digital publishing. |