Students will use the department's new 5-yard table to print their screens along lengths of paper or fabric, joining each impression to the previous one to create continuous surfaces. The process will expand their options to work on large size and large scale prints on different grounds. The first structured projects will introduce strategies for designing a continuous pattern and the use of water-base pigments. Additional techniques will include flocking, use of metallic leaf and puff pigment to enhance the print. Individual directions in work will be encouraged. At the end each student should have finished a series of prints that demonstrate creativity and competence in the application of the newly acquired techniques.
Major Elective, Elective for Non-Majors by Permission

This class is primarily about learning the function of producing of artist books. It's objective is to acquaint students with the tools and materials as well as proper construction and execution so as to facilitate their ability to use the techniques as they wish. While intertwining this with content is part of it, it is 80% form and construction. Ultimately, we will work together to gain a solid foundation in this media that can transfer into and augment the individual's own departmental work.
Decision and problem solving en route to a final piece is key in making books. The class will discuss the positives and negatives of choosing materials and the structural layout of a book, The importance of becoming familiar with adhesives, tools and potential problems in the process will be stressed.
Aspects of adhesive and non adhesive bindings as well as traditional and non traditional books will be covered in ways to enable each student to determine where their strengths and desires lay. It also will create work that will convey the contents narrative into a complete idea. This should not only leave each person with an enthusiasm for the book form as art, but the ability and confidence to produce books on their own. Assignments will be given each week with the objective of manifesting that week's demonstration and objectives into a realized binding. Each student will be required to produce a minimum of ten books. As weeks pass, we will slowly turn from teacher required bindings into student conceived bindings, ultimately culminating in a unique, wholly individual expression.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $175
Major Elective; Elective for Non-Majors by Permission

Drawing is very often the backbone in service of some other artistic pursuit. In this course we will explore drawing as a means of expression all to itself. Our goal is to help students better realize their personal vision by strengthening their formal and thematic approach to drawing. We aim to achieve our goal by building confidence in mark making. We will begin by using observational drawing then branching off in different directions in order to produce the widest possible range of images. Assignments that are designed to encourage experimentation with material and media will give way to more independently conceived projects as the course progresses.
Elective

Grad Print I focuses on artistic decisions using waterbase silkscreen as a medium. Photo processes will be integral to the course. Various surfaces for printing, the integration with painting or drawing, scale investigations, and other materials combined with silkscreen will be encouraged. Aesthetic discourse will occur in individual and group critiques.
Estimated cost of materials: $100.00
Major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration
Elective for other graduate students by permission of instructor required

Students in the graduate printmaking program will utilize graduate level research and scholarship as an impetus for growth within studio practice. Investigation into historical cycles of printmaking will be fostered through assigned texts and exploration of primary resources available at RISD, especially The RISD Museum. A dialogue stemming from intensive studio work will be developed in varied formats by faculty, visiting artists and peers throughout the semester.
Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

Students in the graduate printmaking program will utilize graduate level research and scholarship as an impetus for growth within studio practice. Investigation into historical cycles of printmaking will be fostered through assigned texts and exploration of primary resources available at RISD, especially The RISD Museum. A dialogue stemming from intensive studio work will be developed in varied formats by faculty, visiting artists and peers throughout the semester.
Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

Technical fundamentals related to each of the basic intaglio processes will be demonstrated throughout the semester. Traditional and contemporary intaglio applications will also be presented and experimentation will be encouraged. A series of monotypes, small editions in each process and a larger technical combination plate will comprise the final portfolio assignment. Imagery, concept and content will represent a primary course element as technical facility is mastered. Individual critiques will be the standard throughout and two group critiques at the midpoint and end of the semester will also be scheduled.

Estimated cost of materials: $100.00
Major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department; course not available via web registration
Elective for nonmajors by permission

This course primarily involves the search for personal, idiosyncratic visual direction. Juniors will refine technical application; engage in experimentation and study historical/contemporary entity as the course progresses from scheduled project orientation to more independent bodies of work involving printmaking and its combinations with other mediums. Installation and presentation of work created will be analyzed as a critical component. This course will encompass oral presentations, discussion pertinent to visual art issues and the establishment of a viable, professional work ethic. Critique will be frequent, on individual and group basis at mid-term and end of semester.
Estimated cost of materials: $100.00
Major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

This course is designed to introduce students to intaglio, lithography and silkscreen from a photographic direction. Students learn skills necessary to transfer the photographic image to the printed state. "From Light to Ink" is primarily technical in nature and is meant to serve as a basis for growth and exploration. Computer applications will comprise part of the course.
Major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

At the intersection of commercial and fine art printing for centuries, letterpress printing is now enjoying a resurgence of interest. This course will serve as an introduction to letterpress printing, where students will learn to operate and troubleshoot the Printmaking Department's Vandercook Universal II proof press. A wide spectrum of letterpress techniques and concepts will be discussed. Topics to be covered will include: - History of letterpress printing - Handset typesetting from the growing Printmaking type collection of wood and metal type - Printing and routine troubleshooting on the Vandercook proof press - Photopolymer platemaking, from digital and mechanically produced film - Digital file preparation and film output - Multicolor printing and registration Students will be expected to produce a body of work incorporating the various techniques covered.
Major elective

This class will utilize relief as a means of developing personal imagery. Wood engraving, reduction and multi-block techniques shown. The responsibility of direction, and problem solving will shift to the student as initial assignments proceed into more independent projects. Individual critiques will occur throughout the term, at mid-term and final week.
Estimated cost of materials: $100.00
Major requirement, Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration
Elective for nonmajors by permission

this course provides the printmaking major the opportunity to work closely with Printmaking faculty on a concentrated and advanced basis beyond study in a print elective course. Focus on the development of printmaking related work prior to the Degree Project, relying primarily on individual and group critiques, will culminate in the Degree Project Proposal-foundation for both the Written Thesis and Degree Project body of work that is the focus of Spring Semester for senior printmakers.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $200.00
Must also register for PRINT 4622
Major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

This course offers a practical foundation for professional career options in printmaking and fine arts. Various aspects of a studio career will be covered including: resumes, artists' statements, grants, photographing slides of work, artists' taxes, exhibition planning, graduate school applications, web-presence, publishing workshops, & etc. Career Services serves as an important resource. Students will submit examples of all relevant materials covered, conduct research and compile a personal professional file. .
Must also register for PRINT 4651
Major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

his course is specifically designed to address the format of a printed suite, a series of related images on a theme or story, using basic intaglio techniques. Progress and mastery of techniques will allow the student to progress to more advanced techniques and color printing. A minimum of six images in the suite is required with a minimum edition of six prints of each image. As this is a course that addresses miniature or small scale, prints are not to exceed 4" on any side. An archival portfolio will be fabricated to professionally present and contain the finished suite accompanied by its related colophon page.
Estimated cost of materials: $75.00
Course can be repeated for credit
Major elective, elective for nonmajors by permission

Printmakers as well as many other artists use paper as one of their main materials, yet have little opportunity to learn much about this material and its history, how it is made, and the materials that go into its production. In their sophomore year as print majors, RISD students study Japanese woodblock printing techniques in depth, a technology dependent on Japanese papers and their specific qualities. Other artists and designers habitually use fine quality Japanese washi for a wide variety of applications. This course will introduce RISD students not only to the traditions and history of Japanese paper and the corresponding tradition of printmaking, but also to paper fabrication through a two week workshop at a traditional paper manufacturer.
The class will then proceed to Kyoto for a three week stay to study in depth the historical sites and artistic collections of Kyoto, Nara and Osaka, with an overnight trip to study the art and architecture of the mountain monastery village of Koya San for an in depth appreciation of the continuing importance to Japanese art and culture.
Students who register for this class will also be registerd later by the Registrar for ARTH-H525
Registration begins on October 10 and ends on Wednesday, October 31, 2012.
Travel cost: $3,596.00
***Off-Campus Study***

Artists have used books as a place for gathering ideas for many centuries. Many artists also make specific works in book format. The goals of this class are to explore the book as a space for artistic production and combine structure and content in a concise and meaningful way. Students will learn a variety of book structures from simple folded books to more complex sewn bindings. The class will include visits to view Artists? Books in the Fleet Library Special Collections and the Prints, Drawings and Photographs room in the RISD Museum.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $175

For both beginners and those wishing to improve their technical proficiency with intaglio processes, this course will focus on developing a visual vocabulary using traditional methods of intaglio printmaking processes. Students will learn basic techniques for manipulating copper plates, including drypoint, engraving, mezzotint, etching with hard and soft grounds, and aquatint methods, step bite, spit bite, and soap ground. Printing techniques covered will include hand-wiping, multiple-plate and color registration, and chine colle. Students will investigate how process affects the production and reception of their work, utilizing the rich variety of marks and surfaces Intaglio offers and adapting it to their individual goals and aesthetics. Emphasis will be placed on the development of imagery in relation to the process in which it is produced. Technical and conceptual growth will be facilitated through both independent discussions and group critiques. Students will be expected to produce a small print demonstrating competency in each technique, culminating in an edition to be included in a class print exchange at the end of the course.
Estimated Material Costs: $175.00

Working digitally offers unprecedented opportunity for drawing and image-making; at the same time, we are challenged to realize projects that originate on a computer screen in real space. This course will present students with means for establishing connections between real and virtual space through combination of digital inkjet and water-based, photo-process screenprinting. Instruction in both methods will proceed side-by-side, and emphasis will be placed on using these techniques together in print. Students will receive instruction in color calibration and management, basic image-making, as well as finishing prints. Screenprinting instruction will cover editioning multi-color prints from digital film positives and all of the attendant skills.
Estimated cost of materials: $125.00

In this studio-based course, students will explore drawing through traditional lithographic processes on stone and lithoplate. Drawing is a central component to lithography and students will have the opportunity to build on their drawing style while learning a new medium. We will learn the technical process involved in stone/plate preparation, the characteristics of lithographic imagery, drawing and printing. The course will focus on the traditional lithographic process while incorporating experimental printing techniques such as stencil-making and color layering. Each week will consist of demonstrations and in-class work time. Assignments will include the completion of two stone, one plate and a final exploratory print project of the student's choosing.
A Minskoff Drawing/Print room tour will give students in-depth exposure to the medium and provide source material and a critical historical context. Critiques will take place throughout the semester with the intent of exchanging thoughtful analysis and opening a critical dialogue between peers.
Estimated Material Costs: $175

This course will explore a painterly adaption to Intaglio Printmaking. The assignments will include methods that allow for a more fluid use of etching techniques. Multiple plates and large scale assignments will examine color, using a variety of procedures including: monotypes, open biting, collage, embossment, sugar-lift and photo transfer/combination and collographs (procuring monoprints that allow for experimental challenges.)

This class will focus on learning the Japanese technique of woodblock printing, and incorporating it into students' ongoing artistic practice. This technique is decidedly low tech; it is one of the few printmaking techniques that can easily be done in a home studio, and has not changed fundamentally in hundreds of years. Students will be asked to consider what it means to create prints in this way with contemporary subject matter, how woodblock printing can interact with digital printing, and what is unique about the technique that makes it a valuable tool for the contemporary artist.

Estimated cost of materials: $125.00

Using silkscreen as an introductory platform, students in this course will investigate the creative benefits and freedoms of utilizing the print matrix in all of its capacities. Students will be asked to develop individualized reasons to explain why it's to their benefit to make an edition at all? Why would you want to have more than one copy of an image? What kind of transformations can take place in an artwork when you have a number of copies with which to explore the image's development and evolution? In addition to learning the basic techniques and skills needed to create a dynamic, multi-color screenprint, students will be introduced to monoprinting, pouchoir, photographic and transfer techniques, thus widening the tool box from which they can turn their printed editions into unique works.
We will discuss the history of the traditional print edition, the edition variable and unique print-based artworks, utilizing the RISD museum's print department to see examples of such work. The class will conclude with a final project where students will be asked to turn a printed edition into another form(s) - sculptures, books, animations, films are all possibilities of what student will be encouraged to explore. Both undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to enroll and we anticipate a wide range of cross-departmental experiences. Our hope is to foster a classroom community of artists who are excited to step away from convention while learning the skills necessary to create a multi-faceted and highly developed screen-print..
Estimated Material Cost: $175

Presenting visual ideas clearly in any medium requires sensitive interaction with materials and an understanding of their possibilities. Intaglio processes encourage the generation of a rich variety of marks and surfaces. Proofing allows for analysis and insight into the way you construct an image, and is an ideal arena for color experimentation. Students are encouraged to master and adapt intaglio techniques in relation to their own imagery, and in the process gain proficiency in multiple-plate, color intaglio image-making, processing and printing. Group and individual critiques will allow for feedback and exchange of ideas. Emphasis is on imagery as much as technical competence, and students work towards a final project involving a series of related prints.
Major elective; Printmaking majors only
Elective for nonmajors by permission

This course offers color printing as well as selected advanced lithographic techniques on lithostone and plate to students who have successfully completed a basic lithography course and now wish to pursue the medium further. Initially, a black and white lithographic image will be printed before progressing to advanced color and technical applications. Experimentation is encouraged while development of personally innovative imagery and concept is stressed. Informal group and individual critiques are conducted in conjunction with mid-semester and final critiques. Prints submitted at the end of the course must be competently executed and professionally presented in a portfolio.
Major Elective, Elective for non-majors by permission
Estimated Cost of Materials: $150.00

This class is primarily about learning the function of producing of artist books. It's objective is to acquaint students with the tools and materials as well as proper construction and execution so as to facilitate their ability to use the techniques as they wish. While intertwining this with content is part of it, it is 80% form and construction. Ultimately, we will work together to gain a solid foundation in this media that can transfer into and augment the individual's own departmental work.
Decision and problem solving en route to a final piece is key in making books. The class will discuss the positives and negatives of choosing materials and the structural layout of a book, The importance of becoming familiar with adhesives, tools and potential problems in the process will be stressed.
Aspects of adhesive and non adhesive bindings as well as traditional and non traditional books will be covered in ways to enable each student to determine where their strengths and desires lay. It also will create work that will convey the contents narrative into a complete idea. This should not only leave each person with an enthusiasm for the book form as art, but the ability and confidence to produce books on their own. Assignments will be given each week with the objective of manifesting that week's demonstration and objectives into a realized binding. Each student will be required to produce a minimum of ten books. As weeks pass, we will slowly turn from teacher required bindings into student conceived bindings, ultimately culminating in a unique, wholly individual expression.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $175
Major Elective; Elective for Non-Majors by Permission

What is the curatorial imperative? By incorporating curation into studio practice, artists understand the context for placing new combinations into the world. Collecting, archiving and critical analysis of source material will develop a philosophy of stewardship. Central questions about printmaking as a crucial core for many disciplines that incorporate the relation between matrix and formed object, layers, reversals, positive and negative and replication of original and appropriated media will provide a structure. The state of print publishing, art fairs and current curatorial literature will inform ongoing discussion.
Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

What is the place of printmaking in the art-world and the world at large today? Central questions about printmaking as a crucial core for many disciplines that incorporate the relation between matrix and formed object, layers, reversals, positive and negative, the replication of original and appropriated media will provide a structure. The state of print publishing, art fairs and current critical literature will inform ongoing discussions, research, and presentations.
Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

Strategies for analysis and documentation are presented and discussed as students combine their research and reflections on their own evolving production into an illustrated, written thesis that organizes, focuses, and articulates their ideas. Artist's books, online publications and other formats will be explored. Intensive support for development and production of the thesis in relation to studio practice will be given.
Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

This course will introduce numerous crossover possibilities between digital imaging, printmaking, and photography. Students will learn a variety of digital imaging, intaglio, and photographic processes. We will use these techniques as a bridge between the mediums. There will be demonstrations and lectures regularly through out the semester. Visiting artists will demonstrate and discuss the hybridization of the various processes. There will be reading, and writing assignments followed by class discussions. Printmaking Majors Only, Junior and above
Major Elective
Open to nonmajors with permission of instructor
Fee:$300

Installation Sight & Sound is a studio course where students may create installations, performances, or site-specific works that incorporate screenprinting techniques as a primary medium. Students are encouraged to create experiences that transform the gallery setting or exist outside it. The course is open to students of every disciple and allows for cross-media experimentation. Print will be used and viewed as a drawing and sculptural tool that can be combined with your other technical/digital knowledge and experience. Students will be challenged to explore and invent new ways of utilizing Printmaking in their work, and will be encouraged to transform and reutilize space through interdisciplinary experimentation, and to begin to think about surfaces other than walls for the display of work. In the first half of the semester, students will conduct research, experiment with a variety of screenprinting techniques, offer short presentations of past work, and collaborate on midterm projects. In the second half of the semester, students will form final project proposals, and then work collaboratively or individually on a self-directed final.
Major elective
Also offered as DM 4520.
Registration by Printmaking department; course is not available via web registration

Make you own paper for printing or three-dimensional constructions in this hand on experimental studio course in making paper. Curriculum will include: paper specifications, basic sheet formation, Japanese Plant fibers, recycled materials, paper modules and screens, along with paper structures for installation based work.
Major Elective, Printmaking Majors Only
Open to nonmajors by permission

Critical readings regarding printmaking, historical and contemporary, print presentations, one studio project related to research as well as museum and printshop visits compose this class. The studio breadth of printmaking will be explored via individual investigations.
Major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

At the intersection of commercial and fine art printing for centuries, letterpress printing is now enjoying a resurgence of interest. This course will serve as an introduction to letterpress printing, where students will learn to operate and troubleshoot the Printmaking Department's Vandercook Universal II proof press. A wide spectrum of letterpress techniques and concepts will be discussed. Topics to be covered will include: - History of letterpress printing - Handset typesetting from the growing Printmaking type collection of wood and metal type - Printing and routine troubleshooting on the Vandercook proof press - Photopolymer platemaking, from digital and mechanically produced film - Digital file preparation and film output - Multicolor printing and registration Students will be expected to produce a body of work incorporating the various techniques covered.
Major elective

This course offers basic black and white lithographic technical applications on lithostone and lithoplate to those students who are at the beginning level.
Contemporary techniques, and technical short-cuts will elaborate on traditional processing. Experimentation is encouraged throughout the semester while emphasis is placed on the development of personally innovative imagery and concept. Informal group and individual critiques are conducted in conjunction with group mid-semester and final critiques. A professionally portfolio of assigned prints is due at the end of the course.
Estimated cost of materials: $100.00
Course may be repeated for credit
Major requirement, Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration
Elective for nonmajors by permission

Photogravure is a copper plate intaglio process. The technique has unique abilities to transfer any combination of hand drawn, photographic or digitally rendered imagery to an etched copper plate. Photogravure is one of the most beautiful and revered of all photographic processes. It is a labor intensive, historic and contemporarily relevant process. Students will gain a comprehensive working knowledge of photogravure through lectures, demonstrations, critiques, and discussions. Cross process experimentation will be welcomed and supported.
Elective; Printmaking majors only

The Degree Project involves a semester of independent study to test the student's ability to design and successfully complete a substantial, coherent and comprehensive body of work. To facilitate Tuesday group critiques, students must register for this accordingly. A degree project exhibition AS WELL AS a completed physical and digital thesis--including a comprehensive written statement, are required for graduation.
Estimated cost of materials: $200.00
Major requirement; Printmaking majors only
Registration by Printmaking department, course not available via web registration

This course will be dedicated to printing just one edition during the semester. Those students experienced in printmaking will be encouraged to collaborate with a faculty member. A portfolio of prints will be compiled at the end of the semester and a print exchange will be held for those participating in the project. This course will prepare the students for professional printing expectations and encourage intensity and scale to become more focused and ambitious.
This course may be repeated for credit and taken in place of the junior requirement PRINT 4615
Estimated cost of materials: $100.00
Elective, Advanced students only

Students will stretch their own screens and will be introduced to a wide range of stencil techniques (cut film, paper stencil, crayon and glue, tusche and glue, and photo). Students are urged to experiment with stencil and printing techniques to produce a portfolio of editioned prints.
Estimated cost of materials: $175.00