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. Course may be repeated for credit.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $100.00

Open to Sophomore Printmaking Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Printmaking

Studio: Design promotes multidisciplinary studio experimentation across an array of media and processes. Students explore the organization of visual and other sensory elements in order to understand perceptual attributes and the production of meaning. Using various methods of expression, students may create objects, spaces, and experiences that demonstrate their analysis of composition, color, narrative, motion, systems, and cultural signification. Assignments allow for inquiries into scientific, social, cultural, historical, philosophical, technological, and political topics. Critical and experimental utilization of design principles, which underpin all of the arts, are emphasized. Students are guided through progressive investigations, in which the act of seeing is amplified by the study of physiological and cognitive factors that generate perception. Examined subjects are taken through stages of representation, abstraction, and/or symbolic interpretation to reveal essential communicative properties.

Enrollment is limited to first-year Undergraduate Students.

Major Requirement | BFA

Studio: Design promotes multidisciplinary studio experimentation across an array of media and processes. Students explore the organization of visual and other sensory elements in order to understand perceptual attributes and the production of meaning. Using various methods of expression, students may create objects, spaces, and experiences that demonstrate their analysis of composition, color, narrative, motion, systems, and cultural signification. Assignments allow for inquiries into scientific, social, cultural, historical, philosophical, technological, and political topics. Critical and experimental utilization of design principles, which underpin all of the arts, are emphasized. Students are guided through progressive investigations, in which the act of seeing is amplified by the study of physiological and cognitive factors that generate perception. Examined subjects are taken through stages of representation, abstraction, and/or symbolic interpretation to reveal essential communicative properties.

Enrollment is limited to first-year Undergraduate Students.

Major Requirement | BFA

This course creates a structured yet individualized space for developing a series of drawings. Initially, each student will identify important aesthetic, narrative, and conceptual concerns to launch their visual and material-based research. A broader and prolific generative process at the beginning of the semester will lead to more refined and more specific choices. Students will pursue multiple iterations of the concepts and aesthetics that interest them, culminating in a series of cohesive works. Responsive, directed weekly group and individual discussions will be aimed at invigorating the decision-making process and critiquing the work at each stage of development. This course can be taken for credit as a studio elective or as a Drawing Concentration course. As with any studio elective or Drawing Concentration course, your pursuits can connect to your work in your major or serve as an opportunity to create work distinctive from your work in your major. The class is co-taught by two instructors to give you a wider critical context for understanding and responding to the development of your work.

Elective