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Printmaking
The Printmaking emphasis offers you full access to a comprehensive printmaking curriculum including intaglio, relief, screen printing, a digital lab, papermaking and a dedicated darkroom. You will develop both skills and a personal voice allowing you to function as an exceptional contributor to visual and creative culture. Beyond preparation for professional studio practice, printmaking is supportive for many graphic designers, illustrators, educators and studio artists who primarily practice in other media.
Degree Options
BFA in Studio Art - Printmaking Emphasis
Students may pursue a B.F.A. in Studio Art in this emphasis. The B.F.A. in Studio Art is designed for students interested in a professional degree in art or design. This degree will prepare students for a career as a professional Printmaker. Aside from Printmaking, eight other Emphasis Areas are available to choose from in the B.F.A. degree.
BA/BS - ART EDUCATION WITH PRINTMAKING EMPHASIS
Students may also pursue a BA or BS Degree in Art Education with a concentration in Jewelry and Metalsmithing.
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Printmaking Students have access to state-of-the-art facilities and learn a variety of techniques to succeed in image making and image printing.
A range of methods is introduced at the beginning level including intaglio, relief, digital, and screen printing. In the intermediate level courses students work to develop a personal approach to the medium as they learn autographic, photo-based methods, as well as complex color and layering processes. Majors are encouraged to take charge of their personal artistic direction as they advance through these courses. The students' articulation of ideas and the clarity of communication become the central measures of one's achievement.
Faculty
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Brett Colley
Associate Professor
Dellas Henke
Professor
Printmaking Area Coordinator
Bill Hosterman
Associate Professor
Students' Work
Facilities
The spacious printmaking facilities offer students the tools necessary to work in diverse printed media. The studios are equipped so that students can work in relief, intaglio, digital, screen printing, and photo-based methods. The department’s papermaking equipment is also located in these studios. Majors pursuing a BFA in this emphasis area have individual workspaces adjacent to the main printmaking classrooms.
Printmaking Courses
ART 265 - Introduction to Printmaking
Experimentation with varied techniques and with different composition
ideas related to some fundamental forms of printmaking. Work with
wood/linoleum cut, intaglio, and collagraph. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Credits: 3
ART 366 - Intermediate Printmaking I
A continuation of ART 265. Color and scale and combining printmaking
media are emphasized. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Prerequisites: ART 265.
Credits: 3
ART 367 - Intermediate Printmaking II
A continuation of ART 366. Color and scale and combining printmaking
media are emphasized. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Prerequisites: ART 366.
Credits: 3
ART 401 - Senior Seminar
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
ART 467 - Advanced Printmaking I
A continuation of ART 367 with additional emphasis on quality
printing, experimental printing and content issues. Offered fall and
winter semesters.
Prerequisites: ART 367.
Credits: 3
ART 468 - Advanced Printmaking II
A continuation of ART 467 with additional emphasis on quality
printing, experimental printing and content issues. 468 may be
repeated for credit. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Prerequisites: ART 467.
Credits: 3
ART 498 - Senior Project
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
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Art Education — Art History — Ceramics — Film & Video Production — Graphic Design — Illustration — Jewelry and Metalsmithing — Painting — Photography — Printmaking — Sculpture — Visual Studies