Working primarily with screen print and block printing, students will gain skills in each, while also learning the historical context for these techniques. Experiences will include the production of hand-drawn and photographic screen stencils, carving both linoleum and wood blocks, mixing and modifying inks, and printing by hand and printing press. Offered fall and winter semesters.

Credits: 3

A hands-on overview of intaglio and planographic print processes. Working primarily with etching and monotype, students will gain skills in both, while also being presented with their historical context. Specific intaglio techniques to be covered include dry-point, hard-ground, soft-ground, and aquatint. Approaches to monotype will include painterly, subtractive, and trace. 

Credits: 3

Students will continue to explore stencil and relief printmaking processes, with particular focus on the ways in which materials and techniques can be combined, how prints can change formally and conceptually through their development, and how replicating an image can alter or enhance its meaning. Offered fall and winter semesters.

Prerequisite: ART 263.

Credits: 3

Students continue to explore the potential of intaglio and planographic print processes, with particular focus on how combining, layering, replicating, or altering images through a series of steps can inform and enhance their meaning.

Prerequisite: ART 264.

Credits: 3

For studio artists and designers about to enter graduate school or professional design studios. Includes a required three-day field trip to Chicago, information concerning resume preparation, exhibitions, interviewing, portfolios, design agencies, galleries, museums, and analysis of the professional literature through written assignments. Students will learn how the professional art world works. Offered fall semester.

Prerequisites: Art major and senior standing.
Credits: 3

Students will explore intaglio, planographic, relief, and stencil processes with an emphasis on the development of personal content and craft. Students are expected to create original work within a self-determined thematic framework, working in series or suites of prints. 

Prerequisite: ART 363 or ART 364.

Credits: 3

This course is the final work toward the B.F.A. Senior Exhibition and must be taken in the semester in which students hang their degree shows. Students will work closely with their major professor in their emphasis area, and may have an additional course assigned from their Junior Review. Students must seek the advice of their major professor for the selection of works for their exhibition. They may also seek advice of any other faculty members with whom they have worked or from whom they would like additional feedback. Offered fall and winter semesters.

Credits: 6