May 05, 2025  
BVU Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
BVU Academic Catalog 2024-2025
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ARTD 340 - Introduction to Printmaking


3 Credit(s)

This course provides a survey of traditional and non-traditional printmaking techniques, introducing students to a variety of basic printmaking processes including fundamentals of paper, inks, presses, printing and editioning. Students will use intaglio, relief, lithography and screen-printing to create a cohesive body of work, highlighting both additive and subtractive mark making.

Prerequisite(s): ARTD 195  or permission of the instructor.

Course Frequency: ALT S

Grading Method: Student option.

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Conceptualize an idea and then compose it into an aesthetically resolved artwork.
  2. Identify printmaking tools, methods, materials, and mediums as well as demonstrate skill and craft in their usage.
  3. Utilize recommended health and safety practices and demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with others in a studio setting.
  4. Recognize the conceptual ramifications/possibilities of the multiple processes that are inherent in printmaking.



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