Category: Class offerings
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Course offering for spring 2023: Art History
An art history course next semester that will have an emphasis on book arts, printing, and letterpress is Northern Renaissance Art (ART 3860). Northern Renaissance Art looks at art in Germany, France, the Low Countries, and England from 1400-1600. This period in Europe saw the development of letterpress, intaglio, and relief printing, and was also…
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Course offerings for spring 2023: Book Arts and Letterpress
We have a number of book arts classes on offer for next semester. Kathleen O’Connell will be offering classes on Letterpress (ART 3770) and Book Arts (ART 3550 and ART 4110). ART 3770 Print Media: Letterpress (Tuesday and Thursday at 11:25 AM-2:25 PM) ART 3770 Print Media: Letterpress is taught by Kathleen O’Connell and is…
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Course offerings for spring 2023: Printmaking
If you are a student registering for classes for next semester, we have a lot of print arts classes on offer. In the print studio we have classes on Silkscreen and Digital Processes (ART 3015) and Lithography and Monotype (ART 3021), as well as Advanced Printmaking (ART 4130), all taught by Nick Satinover. ART 3015…
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Book and Print Art Classes: ART 3015 Print Media: Silkscreen and Digital Processes (fall 2022)
Art 3015 is a Print Media course taught by Nick Satinover. It is dedicated to the teaching and exploration of silkscreen printing and its relationship to digital processes. Rather than isolating silkscreen and digital as separate materials or methods, students examine the ways in which both are forms of technology and can be used for producing…
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Book and Print Arts Classes: ART 3770 Print Media: Letterpress (fall 2022)
ART 3770 Print Media: Letterpress is taught by Kathleen O’Connell and is an introduction to typesetting and printing. Students explore this media with a focus on craft and materials. During the course, students learn to operate a cylinder press; print using a broad range of printing techniques (historical to contemporary); identify the elements of typesetting; and…
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Book and Print Arts Classes: ART 3960 The Art History of the Book (spring 2022)
ART 3960 is taught by Laura Cochrane and looks at the history of the book from the earliest writings on clay tablets to the modern and contemporary book, including digital books. The class looks at the history of book formats, discussing the shift from scrolls to codices; and from hand written texts and images to…
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Book and Print Arts Classes: ART 4890 Design History (fall 2022)
ART 4890 is an art history class taught by Laura Cochrane that focuses on the history of design since the Industrial Revolution. In the class, students investigate the history of Victorian design, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau, the Vienna Secession, the Bauhaus school, the International Style, and Postmodern design. At the end of…
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