Description
[Social Practice minor] Letterpress is a sixteen week course, designed to introduce students to the fundamentals and technical principles of a variety of letterpress processes. Students will explore traditional and contemporary methods such as hand-set type, linocuts, pressure printing, digitally carved/cut matrices (using cnc routers and laser cutters) and possibly photopolymer. Students will create and discuss imagery/pattern-based works that are both conceptually engaging and well executed, thus developing their understanding and vocabulary of aesthetics and printmaking. This course includes constructive dialogue about social and activist issues in tandem with the Social Practice program. This critical discourse acquaints student artists with the dynamic possibilities available through the incorporation of print processes with the ongoing western concerns including, but not limited to, social, economic and equity issues . Additionally, the history of letterpress along with its con