17 courses with the subject PR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
An introduction to the relief-printing process through woodcut and other relief media. Assignments cover design, drawing, color, and printing techniques with emphasis on individual projects, e.g., broadsides, portfolios and small books. Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Studio Elective
This will focus on the relationship between analog and digital applications as tied to traditional processes. Newspapers, comics, literature, and sound technologies are some examples that will be explored while learning traditional processes. Processes that may be explored are etching, woodblock and silkscreen. Fulfills: Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Studio Elective
An introduction to screen printing methods of printmaking using primarily water-based processes and including direct, hand-cut, digital, and photographic stencils. Assignments cover design drawing, color and printing techniques. Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Studio Elective
This course is an introduction to the intaglio process of printmaking. Through a series of projects, students develop work in dry point, etching, aquatint, softground, and relief etching. Class structure allows for work in various processes and encourages long-term projects. Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Studio Elective
This course is an introduction to the process of lithographic printing. The expectation is that students find a way to realize their ideas within the technical and conceptual limitations of the lithographic medium. Drawing and design are important; experimentation is encouraged. Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Studio Elective
Relief printing, intaglio and screenprinting are the focus of this advanced course wherein traditional printmaking processes are combined with photographic, digital and other industrial or "commercial" processes. Stencils are applied and adapted to a variety of surface materials including metal, plastic, wood and masonite which are treated to produce intaglio, relief and collograph prints. Students experiment with presentations of the multiple in variable and controlled editions, books, installations and hybrid forms. Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Studio Elective Page 81 of 91
Working from the tradition of prints as a vehicle for political/social change, students employ traditional studio and commercial printmaking processes to move their work outside the studio to the street to engage a larger public. Projects address site-specific work with an emphasis on conceptual thinking, planning, and collaboration. Work is generated through various interactions among clusters of students with visiting artists and with populations beyond Montserrat. Typical projects might include a billboard, a printed and distributed Ezine, a storefront, installation, exchanges with other institutions, community projects, steamroller workshops, and other outside projects. Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Studio Elective
This is an introduction to the traditional relief-printing process used in Japanese woodcuts. Assignments will include instruction on composition, drawing, cutting, color, inking, registration, paper preparation and printing techniques with emphasis on developing individual projects. This course is taught in conjunction with printmaking faculty from Niigata College of Art and Design. Course work will be supplemented by museum, temple and gallery visits and will explore both traditional and contemporary printmaking in Japan. Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Studio Elective
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Printmaking. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation. Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Studio Elective
In this course monoprintmaking techniques are used for drawing. Emphasis will be on the creative and formal, on experimentation as well as on analysis of form. Students work from models, still life, and landscape and transfer the image from plates to paper. Application and wiping of inks, double inking and printing, and additive and subtractive methods are taught. Students learn the monoprint technique as a process of making images from observation as well as from imagination. Fulfills: 300-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or Advanced Drawing Elective or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Students work toward the production of a cohesive body of work. Assignments will address contemporary issues in Printmaking such as professional practice, traditional and alternative format and presentation, contemporary and historical traditions in printmaking. Print development, refinement of imagery, technical facility in editioning, curating and presentation are considered in relation to the traditions of fine art printing and collaboration. Fulfills: 300-Level Printmaking Requirement (Printmaking students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Students work toward the development and production of an editioned portfolio. Print development, refinement of imagery, technical facility in editioning, curating and presentation are considered in relation to the traditions of fine art printing and collaboration. Students will further their skills in plate preparation, ink qualities and their uses, paper selections, and that which may be explored are documentation and storage of artwork and presenting prints through competitions and galleries. The focus will be on individual development of a portfolio, in addition students may participate in exchange of finished portfolios. Fulfills: 300-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective Page 82 of 91
In this course, students will address their contemporary environment through projects that explore narration, sequence and the series. Drawing, which is the basis of projects, is used to create templates for printmaking. Techniques include etching, monoprinting, relief (including found objects) and combinations of these processes. Artists discussed may include Thomas Nast, Odilon Redon and Goya. Students will be encouraged to utilize their Major interests as well. Course work consists of both directed and individual projects with an emphasis on the integration of drawing and printing, supplemented with seminar style discussion of selected texts. Fulfills: 300-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students) or Narrative Elective (Writing & Visual Narrative students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Throughout the advent of the technology to reproduce images, artists have used these tools to help effect changes in their direct environments. From the Gutenberg press and the distribution of knowledge in book form, the Works Progress Administration artists, the propaganda posters of both World Wars, to the movement of independent self- published zines, artists have used the reproducible image to communicate with the world. This course considers the history of printmaking in the context of a studio class. Through the exploration of how artists have used printed matter to communicate with their times students will create directed and self-directed projects based on their research. Clear directed writing about their research will supplement the students’ investigations. Techniques may include letterpress, lithography, etching and digital output. By looking at strategies artists have used over time students will appropriate these techniques and ideas into their own work. Fulfills: Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
This course is a survey of contemporary issues in printmaking beyond the traditional format of the print displayed on the gallery wall. Students in this class will explore issues of iteration, scale and installation in contemporary print work with an emphasis on moving beyond the rectangle. Projects may include both digital and traditional processes and will explore both 2-D and 3-D formats. Artists for discussion will include Nancy Spero, Judy Pfaff, Swoon, Nicola Lopez, Dennis McNett and Ryan McGinnis. Fulfills: Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Printmaking. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation. Fulfills: 300-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Advanced work in the student's major field of study, supervised by a designated faculty member. Fulfills: To be determined by faculty approval Page 83 of 91
Source: Montserrat College of Art's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
