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Shirley E. Scheier
ART 126
Seattle Campus
Studio-based class introducing students, through particular studio practice of individual instructors, to methods of visual awareness, principles of organization, and approaches to visual and conceptual observation. Relationship between art history and contemporary art practice. Artistic medium in each class varies with instructor expertise. Offered: AWSpS.
Class description
Students will learn the fundamentals of composition, conveying visual ideas, and basic relief (linocut/woodcut) printmaking technique. Relief Printmaking is one of the four traditional methods of printmaking, in which the image is printed from the raised surface of wood or linoleum, and the unprinted areas have been cut away.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Lectures will provide a visual starting point for the assignments. Relief prints will be visually analysis in terms of composition, line quality, equivocal space, and other aspects of visual structure. Each student will be given a photocopy of one of these four prints for use in developing their own imagery by referring to the examples use of composition, edges of shapes, cutting technique, texture, line.
Recommended preparation
This is an entry-level course. Students should have an avid interest in the arts and be able to spend 8 hours per week outside of class to carry out homework assignments. No previous experience with drawing or printmaking is expected of the student.
Class assignments and grading
Materials and methods for the syudents' individual final portfolio: drawing, collage, works-on-paper, water-base linocut, and hand printing. As well as an individual final portfolio, students will engage in a collaboratibe Group Portfolio. Group Portfolio Project will develop over the last four weeks of the quarter. It will be initiated with writing and discussion regarding the students’ views on contemporary cultural concerns and historical influences on their current lives. Their assignment will be to: first develop the formal and material aspects with which to convey their ideas using drawing and collage; second, produce a edition of 20 of one linocut, which will be traded with their classmates. Each student will leave the class with a portfolio of prints by all their classmates. The purpose of this assignment is: teamwork, synthesis of the material learned, communication, commitment to the image and the group.
Grading: Grading occurs throughout the quarter in response to your ability to transfer basic introductory drawing and visual structure into relief printmaking, participation in group and individual discussions, quality of completed prints, progress with compositional issues and cutting technique, experimentation using the working proof / collage methods, craftsmanship and skill, and incorporation of suggestions into your work. Students have the opportunity to meet in group critiques and individual meetings with the professor throughout the quarter.
