The Degree Project involves a semester of guided, but essentially independent study to test the student's ability to design and successfully complete a substantial, comprehensive body of work. A Degree Project Proposal is submitted at the end of Wintersession in February. Each senior's body of work is ultimately presented in a Printmaking Degree Project Exhibition in the Woods-Gerry Gallery at the end of the semester. In addition, this course works in tandem with last semester's Senior Degree Project: Seminar topics. Accordingly, a Degree Project Final Folder is also submitted containing, DP Proposal, Final Statement, Resume, Artist Statement, and images of Degree Project work. It is important to note that the Printmaking Degree Project follows grant procedure, thus, its potential value to the graduated senior with a Printmaking BFA degree in the professional realm.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $200.00

Enrollment is limited to Senior Printmaking Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Printmaking

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.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate Printmaking Students.

Major Requirement | MFA Printmaking

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to intaglio printmaking, with a primary focus on developing technical skills and image-making abilities. Students will explore traditional and contemporary approaches to intaglio processes, including drypoint, hard ground, soft ground, and aquatint. Through hands-on demonstrations, guided studio practice, and individual experimentation, participants will learn how to translate their visual ideas into prints with depth, texture, and tonal variation.

The class will emphasize technical proficiency, process-based learning, and creative problem-solving through the printmaking medium. Students will build a body of work that reflects their understanding of the materials, tools, and expressive potential of intaglio. Instruction will be supported by group discussions, critiques, and visits to print collections and exhibitions.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $100.00

Elective

The aim of this course is to introduce relief printmaking and its deep historical contexts and evolution over time, in order to develop visual narratives that speculate on reality and form forward-thinking/conjecture. Referencing graphic novels, works of speculative fiction, and contemporary artists and researchers working across disciplines, we will gain insight into the diverse visual languages used to navigate uncharted territories and uncertain phenomena. How can contemporary visual storytelling influence realities and inform futures? We will explore relief printmaking in its physical and theoretical contexts and its role in dissemination of information, mass production, digital media and contemporary culture.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $125.00

Elective