ART 223 - Introduction to Printmaking 1: Traditional and Contemporary Techniques

Credit Hours: 4
This course is designed to give students first exposure to the print studio and to the exploration of printmaking. Print methods include relief, monotype and how to use every day recycled materials in stencil and collage-based works. Survey of historical and current approaches to the art of printmaking. Students learn how to create drawings and designs that will effectively translate into black and white and color print images. Assigned readings, lectures, and discussion, technical demonstration with experimentation and practice. Students develop studio projects that explore a diversity of subject matters using the visual languages of representation to abstraction.

Course Satisfies: This course satisfies the LEAD Curriculum requirement in the Arts.
Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisites.