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  • Descriptor Title
    Introduction to Printmaking (Archived - for reference only)
  • C-ID Number
    220
  • Units
    3.0
  • Hours
    0000
  • Date of Last Revision
    2/26/2025 01:41:30 PM PST

General Description

Introduction to the basic materials, equipment, and processes of printmaking, including relief (linocut and woodcut), intaglio (drypoint, etching, and collagraph), planography (lithography and monotype), and stencil (screenprint).

Prerequisites

No information provided

Corequisites

No information provided

Advisories

No information provided

Content

  1. Historical overview of printmaking.
  2. Materials, methods, and application of techniques for various printmaking processes.
  3. Translating ideas and visual experience into images using both formal and conceptual approaches.
  4. Safe handling, maintenance, and appropriate use of print lab equipment.
  5. Group and individual critiques of both in-progress and finished prints utilizing relevant terminology and concepts.
  6. Contemporary developments, critical trends, materials, and approaches in printmaking. 

Lab Activities

  1. Development of drawings and designs suitable for each print technique.
  2. Preparation of equipment and materials for each print technique.
  3. Maintain equipment and supplies.
  4. Group and individual critiques on in-progress and finished print works.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

  1. Create a portfolio of work demonstrating formal, conceptual, and material development in a broad range of printmaking techniques;  
  2. Safely handle and maintain the print lab equipment;
  3. Evaluate and critique class projects using correct terminology in oral or written formats;
  4.  Examine and describe historical and contemporary developments, trends, materials, and approaches in printmaking;  
  5. Translate ideas and visual experience into images using both formal and conceptual approaches.

Evaluation Methods

Portfolio of completed work;

Group and individual critiques in oral or written formats;

Written assignments, which may include quizzes, essays, exams, or reports.

Textbooks

Fick, Bill and Beth Grabowski. Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Material & Processes.

Hughes, Ann d&'Arcy and Hebe Vernon-Morris. The Printmaking Bible.

Descriptor Administration

  • Public Review Needed
    No
  • Next Descriptor Review
    No information provided
  • Resubmission Requirements for Courses
    Descriptor changes were administrative only
  • Resubmission Deadline
    No information provided
  • Comments

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  • Notes

     In Spring 2016 the Studio Arts FDRG revised the manner in which certain descriptors are included in the Studio Arts TMC by allowing for Articulation Agreement by Major (AAM) for the following descriptors: ARTS 220, ARTS 230,  ARTS 240,  ARTS 260,  ARTS 280,  ARTS 281,  and ARTS 282. Colleges that already received C-ID approval can continue to use the descriptors on their ADT degree, while allowing for AAM on the TMC for those without C-ID approval. As a result of this revision C-ID no longer accepts submissions for the descriptors. 

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