Printmaking
Heather Neal
Printmaking
Our bachelor of fine arts (B.F.A.) degree program in printmaking offers many options. You can focus entirely on traditional printmaking, or you can broaden your work to incorporate other media. The curriculum is based on printmaking and drawing. You will take basic and advanced courses in intaglio (etching), lithography, serigraphy (silkscreen), and relief. In addition, we offer study in book arts and hand papermaking. You will accumulate a broad range of printmaking knowledge before deciding on an individual artistic specialization.
The School of Art and Design currently has a small digital lab (Mac-based) in printmaking, complete with medium format color printer, laser printer, and scanner. Students use this equipment to combine digital imaging with traditional printmaking methods. Students work with digital image-making programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator to create transparencies, which are used in such photo-based printmaking methods as photolithography, photogravure, silicone intaglio, photo silkscreen, photopolymer, photo collagraph, and Imagon photoetching.
Graduates of our printmaking program are professional master printers, studio owners, commercial artists, and printmaking professors. Others have also gone on to work at museums and galleries.The School of Art and Design feels that drawing plays a vital and primary role in the creative life of an artist. Click here to read more about this common thread that weaves through our art and design programs.
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