Description
This course introduces students to core fundamentals of prints and multiples. Students will learn and apply techniques that are fundamental applications to any printmaker such as paper, matrix, ink properties and proper printing. Students will become familiar with Printmaking key concepts: authorship, multiples and singulars, editions, artists’ proofs, publishing, conservation and dissemination. Relief print will focus on traditional processing of a wooden matrix, linoleum and found or adopted materials to extract images as “found” impressions. There will be a careful consideration to explore expanded media possibilities like collagraphs, image transfers, multiple layered printing and registration techniques as ways to introduce monotypes and mono-prints into their understanding of print. Students will be expected to take part of a dialogue of print and its place in the larger context of art. Students will evolve into a studio practice as an individual and as a communal being in an ate