Program Overview

The Printmaking program incorporates a number of historical media including etching, lithography, relief printing, monotype, and screen printing while expanding upon emerging photographic and digital processes. Emphasis is placed on both unique/individual images and the multiple.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Majors will possess an understanding of the common elements of art/design and of the interaction of these elements, and be able to employ them in their work.
• Majors will possess technical skills for producing art in several media, and will acquire substantial technical knowledge applicable to their area of specialization.
• Majors will be able to produce workable connections between concept and media as well as demonstrate perceptual acuity, conceptual understanding, and technical facility at a professional entry level in their chosen specialization.
• Majors will be familiar with a broad range of artists, designers, craft traditions and art movements and be able to place works of art/design in historical, cultural and stylistic contexts, particularly in their specialization.
• Majors will possess an understanding of contemporary thinking and current major issues in art/design.
• Majors will be able to generate competent verbal and written responses to visual phenomena, utilizing relevant vocabulary to communicate concepts to art/design professionals.
• Majors will be able to make assessments of effectiveness in design projects and works of art, especially the student’s own.
• Majors will be able to analyze works of art and design perceptively and critically, and convincingly form and defend value judgments of these works.
• Majors will be able to identify and solve visual problems within a variety of physical, technological, social and cultural contexts.
• Majors will be able to generate work and solve problems independently, resulting in a coherent set of artistic/intellectual goals that are evident in their work.
• Majors will be able to synthesize, as appropriate to the issue, their capabilities in studio, analysis, history and technology.
• Majors will be able to work collaboratively and will possess functional knowledge of basic business practices in the arts, as appropriate to their area of specialization.
• Majors will have had regular opportunities to exhibit original work, culminating in a senior exhibition with other graduating students in their area of specialization.