Course Syllabus
Printmaking
Prd 4, Room 250 (Butler Building)
Semester 2: Winter-Spring 2022
Instructor Information
Melissa Rioux is the teacher for this course as well as Visual and Performing Arts Dept chair for George Stevens Academy. She joined the GSA community in Sept 2020. She spent ten years teaching and writing curriculum for Publicolor, a not for profit in NYC, and teaching jewelry making at the 92nd St Y before moving home to raise her family in 2015.
School Phone: 374-2808 ext email: m.rioux@georgestevens.org
Office Hours: By Appointment during Prd 3, A Days 12:50-1:15, B Days 1:15-2:30
Textbooks and Other Materials
Students are given sketchbooks that they are expected to work on throughout the course. These should be brought to class each day, and only be left in the classroom for grading. Students are expected to check their Canvas accounts daily for posted material. Students are allowed to sign out materials with the instructors permission and signature.
Additional books TBA
Course Description
In Printmaking students will be introduced to the wonderful world of printmaking and the "process of multiples." Students will start with an investigation of relief printing with a woodcut print. They will be given careful instruction on the use and care of the many tools for designing, cutting, and printing their designs. Students will learn how to sign and edition their work. Students will work in wood, battleship gray lino, Aqua drypoint plates, gelli printing and silkscreening with vinyl if time and resources allow.
Art History, art appreciation, documenting art, displaying/installing art, etc are a part of each medium and each project.
Introduction week
- Become familiar with room: studio etiquette
- Expectations and class descriptions
- The Three ARTS: Designing, Carving, Printing
Tool safety
- gouge, veiner, chisel
- bench pins and cutting matts
- baren
Relief
- designing while considering positive and negative space
working in a subtractive medium
- Reduction methods
- The use of alternative substrates
Intaglio
-dry point
-etching
Silkscreen or Serigraphy
- designing our vinyl resist on illustrator
- printing in the FabLab
- designing and printing with silkscreens
Monoprints
- gelli prints
Color theory
- The ART of printing
Additive Techniques
- Printmaking techniques in Watercolor
- Chine colle
- Printing from Paper-weaving
- Incorporation collage
Culminating Assessment can look like either:
- End of the year semi-independent project
- Teacher prompted, but student driven semi-independent project in which
students work on a piece based on skills they’ve acquired (usually has a theme
and certain criteria, but open to interpretation)
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate skills in the representation of line, shape, value, space, scale and proportion in the printmaking mediums. More pointedly the understanding of positive and negative space as used in relief, intaglio and serigraphy.
- Describe the process and techniques of printmaking, elevated by the articulations and understanding of the elements of art and principles of design.
- Apply the rules and principles to both copied and original works of art.
- Recognize the vocabulary of printmaking.
- Analyze the creative process and its role in thinking skills.
Assessment and Grading
Assessment will reflect the effort in learning skills and techniques in concert with a students's artistic outcomes and the cultivation of their creativity. There will be the copying and study of Master works as well as the time for original works. Students will be graded on their designs (original or "translated"), technical ability to carve/incise, and the cleanliness of their studio and printing practices. Assignments will be posted and submitted through Canvas. Students are expected to zoom into class if classes go remote (Virtual Classroom on the Canvas navigation bar). Class Field Trips TBA.
Timely submission of work is encouraged, there is no guarantee that late work will be accepted.
Attendance and Participation
Students are expected to arrive on time, with their projects/sketchbooks, prepared to work. All students are expected to participate in classroom discussion and class critique to the best of their abilities. If a student is expecting to miss multiple days of school it is their responsibility to keep up and to communicate about their absence with the teacher.
Course Summary:
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