PRINTMAKING
Offered Spring, Summer, & Fall Semesters

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Printmaking students work in a fully equipped intaglio and relief studio in Cortona. All basic equipment, accessories, and inks are provided. During the studio sessions intaglio and relief techniques such as etching, engraving, aquatint, mezzotint, dry point, collography, and woodcut are explored according to the interests of each individual.

Through frequent study visits to museums and galleries and to print shops in Rome and Florence, the student has the opportunity to observe the practice of traditional as well as modern, more experimental, approaches to printmaking. Courses are offered on the undergraduate and graduate levels.

ARST 2300 Printmaking: Relief Processes (Undergraduate)
Prerequisites: ARST 1070 and ARST 1080.
Various relief printmaking techniques with concentrated work in the processes of woodcut, linoleum cut and other related relief approaches.

ARST 2310 Printmaking: Intaglio I (Undergraduate)
Prerequisites: ARST 1070 and ARST 1080.
Various printmaking techniques with concentrated work on intaglio.

ARST 3340 Advanced Printmaking
Prerequisite: ARST 2300 or ARST 2310 or ARST 3300
Lithography, etching and relief printmaking for advanced students, stressing aesthetic development and technical achievement. ARST 4900 Technical Problems (Undergraduate) Prerequisites: Permission of Department. For students qualified to carry out individual projects in studio areas.

ARST 7330 Advanced Printmaking (Graduate)
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
Advanced work in printmaking media, including the traditional intaglio processes, the various relief processes, and the combination of these various processes. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit.

ARST 7980 Directed Study in Major Studio Area (Graduate)
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
Individual studio projects and investigation of specific problems under the direction of faculty members. Directed study. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit.