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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course emphasizes the collaborative capabilities present in the printmaking process. The tradition of collaboration acknowledges the importance of rational planning and communication skills as well as the intuitive processes associated with creativity. Students explore the history and context of various models for collaboration as well as the work of specific collaborative artists such as The Fluxus artists, Group Material, General Idea and others. Projects focus on the development of concepts and images through a shared involvement in the creative process. This will take the form of directed projects such as an exquisite corpsestyle exchange or other multi-part or large scale projects involving multiples. Montserrat's print facility will be used to produce a print project (edition or otherwise) with a visiting artist. Students develop problem-solving skills as they explore the implications of their own ideas and the ideas of others, break down projects into stages, discuss the developing images and adopt or invent print processes for the purpose of resolving the final result. Innovation and hybrid media approaches will be encouraged. Prerequisites: Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits 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. Prerequisites: Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An introduction to the process of letterpress printing with an eye to building books. Emphasis on the narrative and conceptual potentials of letterpress and simple (single section pamphlet, accordion and double-fan adhesive) binding structures. Students work through setting type; proper use of all of the different presses in the College's letterpress shop; registration and imposition; polymer plates; study of the history of metal and wood type. Projects include a group broadside, individual (announcement or business) cards, one and multicolor posters, and small pamphlets. Individual and more complex projects may be possible if time allows. Field trip to the Museum of Printing History in North Andover. Prerequisites: Drawing I, 2-D Design and LTT Elective; or Permission of Instructor Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is focused around the book as structure, object and information. In the first half of the semester, students create models of basic binding structures (focusing mostly on the codex structure) - one model per week. Homework and projects during this time involve creating content filled books based on the structure leaned during the week. These books/homework projects serve as not only practice in binding, but also as "sketches" of production of ideas that could be expanded on or refined in the projects later in the semester. Structures covered include link stitch, long stitch, Coptic, Japanese style and case bindings, as well as other structures for one and multiple signatures; different approaches to the "cover" are also addressed. Throughout, use and choice of materials, adhesives and tools are emphasized. Students provide content, which for those who have taken Elements 1 may be produced through letterpress printing. In the second half, students work on the individual projects based on structures learned up to that point. Field trip to working print shops and binderies. Prerequisites: Drawing I, 2-D Design and LTT Elective; or Permission of Instructor Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits 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. Prerequisites: Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic. Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students); Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits 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. Prerequisites: one 200-level printmaking course Fulfills: 300-level Printmaking Elective; Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Students work toward the production and exchange of a thematic portfolio. The class collectively decides on a theme, presentation and technique for each semester 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 from other colleges may participate in exchange of finished portfolios. Prerequisites: one 200-level printmaking course Fulfills: 300-level Printmaking Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits 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. Prerequisites: One 200-level Printmaking Course Fulfills: 300-level Printmaking Elective; 300-level studio elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits 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. Prerequisites: One 200-Level Printmaking Course Fulfills: Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students); 300-Level Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is designed to build on the basic skills developed in Letterpress Printing 1. It emphasizes book production (rather than broadsides and posters); projects involving greater complexity and requiring more planning and attention to detail; and experimentation. The course addresses: further experience with setting text-weight type; practical work with polymer plates, including their production and ordering; editioning; multi-color and multi-pass printing; and use of type as a visual element (type, rules and sorts as ornament and pattern). The course is enriched by examination of examples and by field trips. Prerequisites: Letterpress Printing I Fulfills: 300-Level Printmaking Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective
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