| Course |
Credits |
|
| DR 252 - Life Drawing |
3 |
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Staff. Offered summer, fall, spring. This course is an intensive study of the nude. Issues of form, structure, volume, movement, composition, and expressive possibilities are explored and practiced. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Required for all majors except graphic design, interior architecture, and photography. Recommended sophomore course |
| DR 298 - Studio Drawing |
3 |
Show Details
Hide Details |
| A general introduction to portrait drawing, this course covers skulls, planes and masses of the head, muscles of expression, age differentiation, characterization, adornment, lighting and the double portrait, among other subjects. There are models of all ages and some clay modeling. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. This course fulfills the studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| Any three of the following four courses |
9 |
Hide Details |
|
| PR 312 - Relief Printing |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Marquart. Offered once a year. Relief printing can be simple, direct, and inexpensive, resulting in images as bold as German Expressionism or as delicate as Japanese woodcuts. With this method, ink is transferred to paper from the surface of linoleum cuts, woodcuts, or found objects. The use of press is optional. Large and small-scale prints are produced. Black and white work is emphasized, but at least one project requires color. If repeating for credit, register as PR 312. Alternative to PR 222. |
| PR 214 - Intaglio Printmaking |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Sparks. Offered Fall, Spring. This course looks at various techniques of plate-making and intaglio printing, ways to form printing surfaces on metal plates, and methods of printing images on paper from this surface. Students explore the development of their own ideas in this medium from both technical and personal points of view. Printmaking majors and concentrators have priority. Prerequisites: FF 100 and FF 198. |
| PR 216 - Lithography |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3credits Garner. Offered Fall, Spring. Lithographs can resemble charcoal and pencil drawings as well as those done with bold brush strokes. Printing from the stone or metal plate can result in gradations of tone and rich blacks. In this course students develop their own ideas and give their drawings the power of the graphic image by translating them to lithographs. Printmaking majors and concentrators have priority. Prerequisites: FF 100 and FF 198. |
| PR 218 - Screenprinting |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| Students explore a range of approaches to waterbased screenprinting, from simple stencil making methods; direct drawing on the screens; to a variety of ways to use photo emulsion, including use of the computer as a tool. Using screenprinting for monoprinting is also an option once beginning printing skills are aquired. While techniques are to be mastered, the emphasis is on the development of rich personal imagery and the relationship of form working with content. This course is for all level of students, and the instructor will try to meet individual needs. To save time, beginning students should work out a 3-color collage (about 11x14” with construction paper as a basis for their first print. Students with prior experience with photo emulsion should come prepared with ideas and gather images they may want to work with. Students who provide their emails will be sent a handout on preparing photo-positives prior to the course. |
| Any two of the following three options |
6 |
Hide Details |
|
| PH 232 - Basic Photography |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Staff. Offered summer, fall, spring. This studio elective covers the fundamentals of developing visual skills and photographic techniques. Emphasis is placed on exposure, development, printing, and aesthetics of photographic vision. The format includes class critique, darkroom and field assignments. No prerequisite. |
| Drawing Elective |
|
Hide Details |
|
| Painting Elective |
|
Hide Details |
|
| Senior Thesis I, II |
6-12 |
Hide Details |
|
| Printmaking Electives |
12 |
Hide Details |
|
| Printmaking Electives |
21 |
Hide Details |
|
| Total Credits in Major |
60 |
Hide Details |
|
| Course |
Credits |
|
| PR 222 - Illustrative Print |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Marquart. Offered occasionally. A good storyteller must exaggerate and simplify events to make the point clear and memorable. A good print often does the same visually. Working from poems, stories, or news articles, students create series of images that communicate themes or ideas while developing their own style and learning the basics of relief printing. This relatively direct and simple print medium involves cutting into linoleum, plastic, or wood blocks, which are then printed by hand or press, generally in black and white. On a field trip to the Baltimore Museum of Art, students see examples of prints from Dürer to Blake and from Daumier to Coe, which inform and present messages important to the artist and the times. |
| PR 294 - Papermaking and Book Structure |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Deery. offered fall or spring This course is an overview of the history of papermaking both Eastern and Western. The beginning of this course will focus on paper as an art form and working in a professional papermill, students will have the opportunity to make paper. Students will learn how to make paper for printing and book arts. Basic book structures will be covered including Japanese and non-adhesive structures. The course will focus on the practicality of the materials used for printing and book. As a prerequisite for any of the Dolphin Press courses and Artists¹ Book, students will develop an understanding of basic concerns for the book and print. |
| Dolphin Press: Relief and the Broadside |
|
Hide Details |
|
| PR 248 - Dolphin Press: Letterpress |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Deery. Offered fall. The relationship between word and image may be persued as fine art prints, folios, and books when printed with the Vandercook letter press. Hand-set lead type can be printed to produce zines, artist books, cards, and broadsides. Students will be introduced to setting type, running the Vandercook letter press, pilot presses, and proofing press. This introductory course will explore the current use of traditional letterpress production and is ideal for the artist/writer/poet who seeks to produce combinations of word with images in a professional fine arts limited edition format. . |
| PR 255 - Dolphin Press: Book & Multiple |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Deery. Offered spring This course provides students with a continued investigation of the handmade book placing emphasis on design, craftmanship and production of the book as a multiple. Students will learn how to edition their book designs using basic bookbinding structures. Images and text will be printed using photopolymer plates on the Vandercook press. Slide lecture of current examples of books produced as multiples both from students and artists will be presented and discussed. |
| PR 260 - The Professional Folio |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Deery. Offered occasionally. Ideal for students who wish to develop a professional portfolio box of original prints. The course will survey the history of folios, boxed sets of prints, and handmade paper editions that revolve around a general theme. Students will design a personal portfolio that will include prints that make use of photo-polymer plates, relief printing from woodblocks or linoleum using the Vandercook press, and handmade paper made for editioning. An introduction to papermaking will be part of the course. Students will also produce an edition of prints for and participate in the production of the semi-annual MICA folio of prints including a collaborative print with a visiting artist. Discussions and information regarding the daunting endeavor of marketing and exhibiting original prints will be held throughout the semester to give students a plan for getting work "out there." Field trips to professional print and handmade paper studios and to the International Print Center in NYC are scheduled. |
| PR 318 - Advanced Screenprinting |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Coronado. Offered fall, spring. This class explores the latest techniques of screenprinting using water-based inks. Traditional methods of stencil making with hand drawing and painterly techniques will also be covered. The photo emulsion process will be used to transfer images to screens. Printing from digital images will be emphasized. Students will learn how to properly develop and prepare digital art for production as a fine art limited edition print. Students are encouraged to undertake individual projects that connect directly to their areas of interest. The combination of traditional and digital techniques can be utilized in unique and effective ways. |
| PR 217 - Print Survey: Litho/Monoprint |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Staff. Offered fall, spring. Studio survey courses are designed for sophomores, juniors and seniors interested in a variety of print media. This course will focus on lithography, which will cover both basic stone lithography and color plate lithography, and the second part of the semester will survey monoprinting and collage. The relationship between drawing, painting, illustration and printmaking is emphasized in all print mediums. Students will enjoy discovering new ways to transform their fundamental skills. |
| PR 213 - Print Survey: Intaglio/Relief |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3credits Marquart/ Ludwig-Johnson This course is designed for sophomores, juniors and seniors interested in concentrating on intaglio printing and relief printmaking. Impressions are made by placing prepared printing plates under felt blankets and passing them through the press. Under the heading of intaglio printmaking, we find the largest number of printmaking techniques: etching, drypoint, aquatint, engraving, soft ground and collagraph. They all fall into this category because the image is incised and made below the surface of the plate. The recessed textures and lines hold ink in the wiping process and are then printed on paper using a printing press. Students are encouraged to experiment and develop their ideas. |
| PR 226 - Print Survey:Collagrph & Color |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Moseley. Offered fall. This course is designed for sophomores, juniors, and seniors interested in concentrating on collagraph, which utilizes dimensional textured plate printing. Using a multidisciplinary approach to printmaking, students explore the color print. The plates are developed in the traditional techniques of collagraph (plates are made by adhering materials to a surface) or intaglio (metal plates are made through various techniques ranging from using acid to scratching). The emphasis of this class is color, and students can explore the quality they desire. |
| PR 324 - Repetition/ Constructed Print |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits, Sansone. Offered fall or spring Learn printing processes that deal with the multiple in production. (letterpress, silkscreen and relief printing). This course will investigate design methodologies that translate the two- dimensional print into a three- dimensional language. Repetition is a device of material production. In product design, the repeated image or word is implemented to convey messages to consumers. In art, the medium of printmaking inherently uses repetition as a way to proliferate images and ideas to the viewing public. The following topics will be used as a point of departure for developing functional objects. These topics will help us shape concepts in conjunction with developing a three-dimensional language with printed designs. Topics include, Manufacturing and Consumer Culture, The Appropriated image/ Re-contextualizing the Print, Power Through Proliferation, The Print Exploded, The Print Superimposed. |
| PR 332 - Photo Printmkg & Digital Image |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3 credits. Deery. Offered Fall. Photo, computer, and printmaking students can explore many creative possibilities for converting their images to hand printed editioned prints. Drawing from a personal collection of photographs and composed images, students have an opportunity to find ways for using them as graphic statements. Students can combine photo and digital images with drawn and written forms and learn how various printmaking media can translate these images. Using photo-sensitive plates and Xerox transfer, this course will cover photolithography, photoetching, and Xerox transfer with drawing. The transparency is the most important tool in the photo printmaking process and will be handled in thorough detail covering line, halftone, negative and positive formatting. The advanced computer room is scheduled for dedicated lab hours. |
| PR 314 - Etching: Grnds for Celebration |
|
Show Details
Hide Details |
| 3credits. Ludwig-Johnson Offered fall Intended for those with prior experience in intaglio printmaking, class participants will draw inspiration from the great etchers of the 19th and 20th centuries, studying their innate ability to marry the medium with their imagery, whether political, poetic, eccentric, obsessional or abstract. This course offers the student a hands-on opportunity to develop and hone their own thematic and conceptual integrity into a coherent group of images, as they further their skills in aquatint, color printing and painterlywiping. Prerequisite PR214 or AH236. |
| Kingston: Discovering Caribbean Cultural Identity in Jamaica's Capital |
|
Hide Details |
|