A Collaborative Study Project (CSP) allows two students to work collaboratively to complete a faculty supervised project of indepedndent study.

Usually, a CSP is supervised by two faculty members, but with approval it may be supervised by one faculty member. Its purpose is to meet individual student needs by providing an alternative to regularly offered courses, though it is not a substitute for a course if that course is regularly offered.

Grad Print I will focus on the notion that Printmaking (and its constituent processes/techniques) are a "hub" within the visual arts. Students will experiment with a multitude of print processes that branch from drawing (a logical creative starting-point between Printmaking and Painting), and form extensions into the mediums of painting, sculpture, installation, and even video. Processes covered will include; drawing fluid/screen filler, screen monotype, image transfer, drypoint intaglio, and various other forms of monoprint. Assignments will require experimentation with each new technique and projects will require the individual exploration of these techniques and application to each students' personal studio practice. Demonstrations, presentations, and group/individual critiques will supplement all work time.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

Open to non-major graduate students by permission of Instructor.

Students in the graduate printmaking program will utilize graduate level research and scholarship as an impetus for growth within studio practice. Investigation into historical cycles of printmaking will be fostered through assigned texts and exploration of primary resources available at RISD, especially The RISD Museum. A dialogue stemming from intensive studio work will be developed in varied formats by faculty, visiting artists and peers throughout the semester.

Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

Students in the graduate printmaking program will utilize graduate level research and scholarship as an impetus for growth within studio practice. Investigation into historical cycles of printmaking will be fostered through assigned texts and exploration of primary resources available at RISD, especially The RISD Museum. A dialogue stemming from intensive studio work will be developed in varied formats by faculty, visiting artists and peers throughout the semester.

Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

The Independent Study Project (ISP) allows students to supplement the established curriculum by completing a faculty supervised project for credit in a specific area of interest. Its purpose is to meet individual student needs by providing an alternative to regularly offered courses. An Independent Study may be taken either for credit within the Printmaking major or as a nonmajor studio elective, depending upon the subject matter under study and the major of the student.

Permission of Instructor and GPA of 3.0 or higher is required.

Register by completing the Independent Study Application available on the Registrar's website.

The Independent Study Project (ISP) allows students to supplement the established curriculum by completing a faculty supervised project for credit in a specific area of interest. Its purpose is to meet individual student needs by providing an alternative to regularly offered courses.

Permission of Instructor and GPA of 3.0 or higher is required.

Register by completing the Independent Study Application available on the Registrar's website; the course is not available via web registration.

Technical fundamentals related to each of the basic intaglio processes will be demonstrated throughout the semester. Traditional and contemporary intaglio applications will also be presented and experimentation will be encouraged. A series of monotypes, small editions in each process and a larger technical combination plate will comprise the final portfolio assignment. Imagery, concept and content will represent a primary course element as technical facility is mastered. Individual critiques will be the standard throughout and two group critiques at the midpoint and end of the semester will also be scheduled.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department; course not available via web registration.

Open to non-majors as elective by permission of Instructor.

Make you own paper for printing or three-dimensional constructions in this hand on experimental studio course in making paper. Curriculum will include: paper specifications, basic sheet formation, Japanese Plant fibers, recycled materials, paper modules and screens, along with paper structures for installation based work.

Estimated Materials Cost: $175.00< BR> Major elective; Printmaking majors only

Open to non-majors as an elective by permission of Instructor.

This course primarily involves the search for a personal, idiosyncratic visual statement. Juniors will refine technical application, engage in experimentation and study historical/contemporary artists and movements as the course progresses from scheduled project orientation to more independent bodies of work involving printmaking and its combinations with other mediums. Installation and presentation of work created will be analyzed as a critical component. This course will encompass oral discussion and presentations. Critiques will be frequent, in individual and group format including a group mid-term critique and end of semester critique that includes an invited, guest critic. In addition to the visual component of the course, instruction in seminar form will comprise visual artist professional practice methods that involve resume, cover letter, and employment application. Presentation of work in gallery, museum and professional interaction formats will also be part of the course.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

At the intersection of commercial and fine art printing, letterpress printing offers the opportunity to employ craftsmanship in design and hone message making through the process of creating visually and tactilely interesting, physically present work. The processes also allows for high volume multiples for greater dissemination of information, without eliminating the human presence from the process. The goal of the course is to enable students to use their voices on the public stage to better engage, confront, protest, and push for a more present and informed citizenry.

This course will serve as an introduction to letterpress printing, where students will learn to operate and troubleshoot a Vandercook Universal II proof press. Techniques to be covered will include handset typesetting, printing and routine troubleshooting on the Vandercook proof press, photopolymer platemaking from digital and mechanically produced film, and multicolor printing and registration.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

This course offers basic black and white lithographic technical applications on lithostone and lithoplate to those students who are at the beginning level.

Contemporary techniques, and technical short-cuts will elaborate on traditional processing. Experimentation is encouraged throughout the semester while emphasis is placed on the development of personally innovative imagery and concept. Informal group and individual critiques are conducted in conjunction with group mid-semester and final critiques. A professionally portfolio of assigned prints is due at the end of the course.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Course may be repeated for credit.

Printmaking's inclusive nature allows for many different approaches and opportunities. Motivated by historic, sociological, political and media driven revolutions, printmaking has undergone significant shifts throughout history. The current world of image proliferation and rapid technological innovations have pushed the traditional boundaries of printmaking even further in the contemporary art world. Many of today's artists are creating large-scale installations utilizing the printed multiple in many distinctive ways. Through process and scale, students will examine the interrelated nature of form, multiples, expression, and meaning. The course will explore permanent, temporary and site-specific installation based art.

Major elective

Open to non-majors as elective by permission of Instructor.

A Professional internship is one of the central experiences of a RISD Printmaking education. Students can participate in the collaborative process between artist and printer in a fine arts publishing shop, work with artist/printmakers in a community-based print facility, learn the newest photographic and digital print techniques in a state-of-the-art shop, assist an individual printmaker in a private studio or choose from many other educational opportunities. The department maintains relationships with many printshops including, Solo Impression, Renaissance Press, Pyramid Atlantic, Kala Institute and many more. Internship lists will be distributed and some printers will come to campus to conduct interviews.

This class will utilize relief as a means of developing personal imagery. Wood engraving, reduction and multi-block techniques shown. The responsibility of direction, and problem solving will shift to the student as initial assignments proceed into more independent projects. Individual critiques will occur throughout the term, at mid-term and final week.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

Open to non-majors as an elective by permission of Instructor.

this course provides the printmaking major the opportunity to work closely with Printmaking faculty on a concentrated and advanced basis beyond study in a print elective course. Focus on the development of printmaking related work prior to the Degree Project, relying primarily on individual and group critiques, will culminate in the Degree Project Proposal-foundation for both the Written Thesis and Degree Project body of work that is the focus of Spring Semester for senior printmakers.

Estimated Materials Cost: $200.00

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

This course offers a glimpse into the realities of pursuing a professional career in printmaking (and the fine arts). Various aspects of developing and maintaining a studio career will be covered including: CV, artist statements, and the effective preparation of competitive applications of all forms. Career Services serves as an important resource. Students will be expected to produce new work and related scholarship consistently, and frequently during the course of the term, with the goal of submitting the following prior to receipt of final grades: full and distributable CV, artist statement, short-form artist statement abstract, presentation of past/present/future work, a business card design ready for print, completed artist interview (with colleague from class), a WELL documented, hi-resolution, and fully-edited for submission, portfolio of AT LEAST 15, and up to 20 images of RECENT work, which includes detail and installation views, and a fully-detailed image list/inventory. During the course of the class students will also prep mock applications to at least 2 of the following (graduate school, artist residency, grant funding, etc.), and AT LEAST 1 of these applications will be brought to finalization and submitted to the institution of choice. Course will include in-progress critiques of recent work, group discussions, lectures, and presentations.

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

This course is specifically designed to address the format of a printed suite, a series of related images on a theme or story, using basic intaglio techniques. Progress and mastery of techniques will allow the student to progress to more advanced techniques and color printing. A minimum of six images in the suite is required with a minimum edition of six prints of each image. As this is a course that addresses miniature or small scale, prints are not to exceed 4" on any side. An archival portfolio will be fabricated to professionally present and contain the finished suite accompanied by its related colophon page.

Estimated Materials Cost: $75.00

Major elective

Open to non-majors as an elective.

Course can be repeated for credit.

Students will stretch their own screens and will be introduced to a wide range of stencil techniques (cut film, paper stencil, crayon and glue, tusche and glue, and photo). Students are urged to experiment with stencil and printing techniques to produce a portfolio of editioned prints.

Estimated Materials Cost: $175.00

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Open to non-majors as elective by permission of Instructor.

The use of light-based print processes is ubiquitous in contemporary printmaking. Light to Ink will lay a foundation of knowledge within the printmaking medium for using light as a part of the image-making process. The class is designed to introduce students to the basics of Printmaking using either hand made, digital or photo-made matrixes. The class will learn to make prints using the traditional print methods of intaglio, lithography and screenprint and build a base of information about the production of the film transparencies from which the matrix is made. Students will be taught the skills necessary to take the photo, computer, or handmade image from a one or a series of positive transparencies to a finished print. "From Light to Ink" is a starting point for growth and exploration in photo printmaking and an introduction to printing in intaglio, lithography and screenprint. No prior knowledge of printmaking is required. This class is most appropriate for sophomores, juniors and 1st semester seniors.

Open to all students.

This course and its co-requisite are an in-depth exploration of the Tokyo and historic Kansai region to see and draw the most important Shinto, Buddhist and secular sites in Japan, and to couple that visual exploration with 9 days of paper making in rural Tokushima on Shikoku Island. Returning to Providence, students will spend an intensive week creating a final project using the paper they have made that reflects on their experiences in Japan, as well as write 2 art history papers. Through historical site visits students will gain an in-depth understanding of the background of Japanese visual culture. Through an intensive workshop at the Awagami Paper Factory students will work side by side with the finest Japanese paper makers as they learn paper making skills and gain an understanding of the continuing vitality of traditional Japanese crafts. Accommodations will vary depending upon to availability, with the goal of experiencing a variety of traditional and contemporary hotels, ryokan, dormitories, and so on.

This is a co-requisite course. Students must plan and register for PRINT-4525 and THAD-W525. Students will receive 3 studio credits and 3 liberal arts credits.

Registration begins in October at a time to be announced.

All students are required to remain in good academic standing in order to participate in the WS travel course/studio. A minimum GPA of 2.50 is required. Failure to remain in good academic standing can lead to removal from the course, either before or during the course. Also in cases where WS travel courses and studios do not reach student capacity, the course may be cancelled after the last day of Wintersession travel course registration. As such, all students are advised not to purchase flights for participation in Wintersession travel courses until the course is confirmed to run, which happens within the week after the final Wintersession travel course registration period.

Permission of Instructor required.

Open to first year students with approval from the Dean of Experimental & Foundation Studies.

2020WS Estimated Travel cost: $4,600.00 - airfare not included.

***Off-Campus Study***

This course will focus on learning different book binding methods that include but are not limited to stab binding, Coptic stitch, pamphlet stitch, map fold, drum leaf, and more. Through weekly demonstration and assignments, students will acquire skills in both adhesive and non-adhesive binding as well as basic box making techniques. There will be opportunities to closely study various kinds of books from instructor's personal collection and the RISD Library Special Collections. Problem solving skills and decision-making skills will be further developed by countless practices and experiments. At the end of the semester, students will have thorough understanding of the anatomy of books, how to make them, how to plan and execute their own design, where to acquire materials and tools, and more.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

The Independent Study Project (ISP) allows students to supplement the established curriculum by completing a faculty supervised project for credit in a specific area of interest. Its purpose is to meet individual student needs by providing an alternative to regularly offered courses. An Independent Study may be taken either for credit within the Printmaking major or as a nonmajor studio elective, depending upon the subject matter under study and the major of the student.

Permission of Instructor and GPA of 3.0 or higher is required.

Register by completing the Independent Study Application available on the Registrar's website.

Since the invention of the printing press, printmaking has been uniquely tied to text. In this course, we will use intaglio printmaking as a medium for exploring how images and words can come together to inform and expand our practices. We will experiment with the role text can play as a visual element, research tool, and vehicle for clarifying ideas. Intaglio printmaking will provide the medium for exploring the relationship between text and image. Student-artists will learn techniques including drypoint, hard and soft ground etching, aquatint, and photo-based intaglio as they work toward a final project that brings together text and image. This course will focus on the development of ideas through the interplay of visual and textual modes of thinking, group discussions, demonstrations, group and individual critiques, museum and special collections visits, and creation of a final print portfolio.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Silkscreen is often viewed as the simplest and most accessible of all the printmaking techniques. Indeed, it is fairly easy to learn, and does not require a lot of equipment. However, it is extremely versatile and can be applied to any kind of practice, while remaining relevant in contemporary art making. The current world of image proliferation does not allow time to really understand how images are made; learning silkscreen and going through this labor intensive, time consuming process is an interesting way to take some time to decipher what making an image really means, while acquiring a critical eye on our saturated surroundings.

As you probably guessed, silkscreen will be our default medium for this class, and a wide range of printing techniques will be covered. The first part of this course will explore the fundamentals; students should master the basics before experimenting with the medium. The second part will be focused on the students' own practices and will be inherently more experimental. And no, we will not be making T-shirts.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

At the intersection of commercial and fine art printing, letterpress printing offers the opportunity to employ craftsmanship in design and hone message making through the process of creating visually and tactilely interesting, physically present work. The processes also allows for high volume multiples for greater dissemination of information, without eliminating the human presence from the process. The goal of the course is to enable students to use their voices on the public stage to better engage, confront, protest, and push for a more present and informed citizenry.

This course will serve as an introduction to letterpress printing, where students will learn to operate and troubleshoot a Vandercook Universal II proof press. Techniques to be covered will include handset typesetting, printing and routine troubleshooting on the Vandercook proof press, photopolymer platemaking from digital and mechanically produced film, and multicolor printing and registration.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

The first part of this course will look at the traditional printmaking processes involving stone lithography- from graining a stone, drawing, processing to printing an edition. Technical fundamentals of drawing in autographic ink, crayon and tusche on stone will be demonstrated. Students taking this class will familiarize themselves with these techniques while engaging and pushing their drawing skills and personal visual imagery within the limitations and explorations that stone lithography offers. At the start of week four, the class will collectively come up with a theme for a print exchange where each student will make an edition of 10. This print exchange and their respective images will be presented on the last day of class and each student will take home a stack of prints. This course is designed for students who have little to no experience with lithography and/or printmaking.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Open to undergraduate and graduate students

The professional Internship provides valuable exposure to a professional setting, enabling students to better establish a career path and define practical aspirations. Internship proposals are carefully vetted to determine legitimacy and must meet the contact hour requirements listed in the RISD Course Announcement.

Building on the students pre-existing experience with the materials and process of etching, this course will focus on advanced intaglio practices and methodologies. Primary techniques covered will include experimental copperplate etching, polymer-plate processing/printing, and various other unique plating approaches that utilize aspects of other print-processes and tools; monotype, relief, and screenprinting. The plate, or printing-surface/matrix, will become as important as the printed image or multiple. Assignments will be guided by prompts that require students to push the plating material to new and unexpected places, and to begin to consider ways in which the plate figures in as "finished" work. The two main course projects, a midterm and final, will both be self-directed.

Elective

The focus of this course will be for students to improve their letterpress printing skills and techniques, while allowing each student the time to develop a unique body of work. The first few weeks will be used to cover further fine hand typesetting skills, and to use the nuances of the type and typesetting to explore the finer intricacies of the press and papers. Demonstrations covering more in depth polymer plate printing and other processes will continue throughout the semester, with the goal of allowing students to develop an independent project over the second half of the class.

Open to all students.

This course is intended to build on a basic Screen print foundation. Beginning with fine tuning basic stencil making and registration and printing techniques. The course will move on to working big. It's what screen printing can do more efficiently and in a lower cost-effective way than any other traditional printmaking technique. The class will cover printing with a one arm squeegee designed for printing large stencils and on a 10-foot fabric/paper printing table made to print along lengths of paper or fabric, joining each impression to the previous one to create continuous surfaces.

Methods for producing handmade stencils to making the matrix from fine dot digitally made positives will be demonstrated and taught. Screen printing on substrates from fabrics, rolled paper, rag sheets and other surfaces will be explored. Images can involve repeated pattern, be large scale image oriented, or tiled depending on each student's individual content issues and image needs. In the second half of the semester the students will embark on a research project aimed at; producing a large-scale print or series of large scale prints, printed fabric yardage, rolled wallpaper, installation. A proposal due at mid semester will serve as a starting point for the project it should speak to; focus and direction, content and form, the techniques and strategies planned, how will the stencils be made; handmade photo, computer generated half tones or line, what materials, tools will you use what will you print on. What artist influence the work? What do you look to and at for inspiration?

Estimated Materials Cost: $125.00

Elective

Open to sophomore and above.

A Collaborative Study Project (CSP) allows two students to work collaboratively to complete a faculty supervised project of indepedndent study.

Usually, a CSP is supervised by two faculty members, but with approval it may be supervised by one faculty member. Its purpose is to meet individual student needs by providing an alternative to regularly offered courses, though it is not a substitute for a course if that course is regularly offered.

Once instruction and review of black and white lithography is engaged, this course offers color printing and selected advanced lithographic techniques on lithostone and lithoplate to those students who show mastery of the basic techniques. Experimentation is encouraged while development of personally innovative imagery and concept is stressed. Informal group and individual critiques are conducted in conjunction with mid-semester and final critiques. Prints submitted at the end of the course must be competently executed and professionally presented in a portfolio.

Estimated Materials Cost: $75.00

Major elective

Engraving requires a single tool - the burin - to make intaglio prints of astounding clarity. The engraved line is unique in its brilliance and energy. A skilled engraver has complete mastery of every aspect of line, allowing a great range of expression from the most delicate linear shading to visceral gestures that stand our in relief when printed on the paper.

Students will learn tool sharpening, image development, techniques for transferring designs to copper, burin use and special printing requirements. Emphasis will be placed on development of a personal language of marks appropriate to individual artistic needs.

Museum visits and a master copy will provide inspiration for contemporary expression through an analysis of great engravings from the fifteenth century to the present.

Estimated Materials Cost: $50.00

Elective

In this intensive independent studio students continue and complete the work began in "EHP Studio Elective", culminating in the final exhibition and review. It corresponds to the remaining eight weeks of the program, after students have finished with their Art History and Italian classes.

Note: EHP credits replace the on-campus major requirements for the term students attend. Distribution to non-major requirements occurs when major credits are not needed.

Independent studio is at the core of the EHP experience. Upon arrival, students are assigned studio space at the Palazzetto Cenci, home of RISD's program in Rome. With guidance from the chief critic, each student develops a personal body of work sparked by his/her interactions with places, people and circumstances in Rome and other locations that are part of the EHP tours (such as the Northern, Southern or Eastern tours, as well as other shorter trips.) The work takes as a point of departure knowledge and techniques specific to individual home departments, but allows, and even encourages, explorations beyond disciplinary boundaries, including collaborations and cross-fertilization within a group of students from different departments working together.

Beyond consistent and thorough engagement with studio work, requirements include participation in open studios and exhibitions, presentations in reviews, and attendance to all group activities and events, such as lectures at the Cenci and other institutions. From time to time, the chief critic may issue short assignments to introduce or focus on a particular subject. As part of the studio elective, students may be encouraged to keep sketchbooks and/or diaries, participate in optional activities--such as figure drawing sessions--and search for brief internships, apprenticeships, or other forms of interactions with local artists, designers, curators and critics.

EHP Studio Elective corresponds to the first twelve weeks of the program, while students are also taking Art History and Italian classes. This course establishes the direction for the work in the "Studio Concentration" course that follows.

Note: EHP credits replace the on-campus major requirements for the term students attend. Distribution to non-major requirements occurs when major credits are not needed.

What is the curatorial imperative? By incorporating curation into studio practice, artists understand the context for placing new combinations into the world. Collecting, archiving and critical analysis of source material will develop a philosophy of stewardship. Central questions about printmaking as a crucial core for many disciplines that incorporate the relation between matrix and formed object, layers, reversals, positive and negative and replication of original and appropriated media will provide a structure. The state of print publishing, art fairs and current curatorial literature will inform ongoing discussion.

Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

What is the place of printmaking in the art-world and the world at large today? Central questions about printmaking as a crucial core for many disciplines that incorporate the relation between matrix and formed object, layers, reversals, positive and negative, the replication of original and appropriated media will provide a structure. The state of print publishing, art fairs and current critical literature will inform ongoing discussions, research, and presentations.

Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

Strategies for analysis and documentation are presented and discussed as students combine their research and reflections on their own evolving production into an illustrated, written thesis that organizes, focuses, and articulates their ideas. Artist's books, online publications and other formats will be explored. Intensive support for development and production of the thesis in relation to studio practice will be given.

Graduate major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

The Independent Study Project (ISP) allows students to supplement the established curriculum by completing a faculty supervised project for credit in a specific area of interest. Its purpose is to meet individual student needs by providing an alternative to regularly offered courses. An Independent Study may be taken either for credit within the Printmaking major or as a nonmajor studio elective, depending upon the subject matter under study and the major of the student.

Permission of Instructor and GPA of 3.0 or higher is required.

Register by completing the Independent Study Application available on the Registrar's website.

The Independent Study Project (ISP) allows students to supplement the established curriculum by completing a faculty supervised project for credit in a specific area of interest. Its purpose is to meet individual student needs by providing an alternative to regularly offered courses.

Permission of Instructor and GPA of 3.0 or higher is required.

Register by completing the Independent Study Application available on the Registrar's website; the course is not available via web registration.

Technical fundamentals related to each of the basic intaglio processes will be demonstrated throughout the semester. Traditional and contemporary intaglio applications will also be presented and experimentation will be encouraged. A series of monotypes, small editions in each process and a larger technical combination plate will comprise the final portfolio assignment. Imagery, concept and content will represent a primary course element as technical facility is mastered. Individual critiques will be the standard throughout and two group critiques at the midpoint and end of the semester will also be scheduled.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department; course not available via web registration.

Open to non-majors as elective by permission of Instructor.

This course sustains the search for personal, idiosyncratic visual direction. Printmaking applications are refined, experimentation is engaged and study incorporates group discussion, readings and critical writing related to texts provided and visits to libraries, museums and galleries. In addition, students will update the resume created during the previous semester, an artist statement will be written, cover letters and employment/grant applications will be addressed at regular intervals throughout the semester. Installation and presentation of work created will be analyzed as a critical component. At the end of the semester, students will discuss their current work in oral/power point format as it relates to personal research of historical and contemporary art/artists. Critiques, group and individual will occur each week and an outside guest critic will be engaged for mid-semester and the final critiques.

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

This course offers basic black and white lithographic technical applications on lithostone and lithoplate to those students who are at the beginning level.

Contemporary techniques, and technical short-cuts will elaborate on traditional processing. Experimentation is encouraged throughout the semester while emphasis is placed on the development of personally innovative imagery and concept. Informal group and individual critiques are conducted in conjunction with group mid-semester and final critiques. A professionally portfolio of assigned prints is due at the end of the course.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Course may be repeated for credit.

The professional Internship provides valuable exposure to a professional setting, enabling students to better establish a career path and define practical aspirations. Internship proposals are carefully vetted to determine legitimacy and must meet the contact hour requirements listed in the RISD Course Announcement.

The Degree Project involves a semester of guided, but essentially independent study to test the student's ability to design and successfully complete a substantial, comprehensive body of work. A Degree Project Proposal is submitted at the end of Wintersession in February. Each senior's body of work is ultimately presented in a Printmaking Degree Project Exhibition in the Woods-Gerry Gallery at the end of the semester. In addition, this course works in tandem with last semester's Senior Degree Project: Seminar topics. Accordingly, a Degree Project Final Folder is also submitted containing, DP Proposal, Final Statement, Resume, Artist Statement, and images of Degree Project work. It is important to note that the Printmaking Degree Project follows grant procedure, thus, its potential value to the graduated senior with a Printmaking BFA degree in the professional realm.

Estimated Materials Cost: $200.00

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Registration by Printmaking Department, course not available via web registration.

This course is designed to present various printmaking processes to students new and more experienced; majors and non-majors. In group or individually, beginners will learn and advanced students will review print techniques that span silkscreen, intaglio, photo/digital, and/or their printed combinations, e.g., students choose the print technique(s) they wish to be the focus of their final, printed edition. The course objective concentrates on visualizing a distinct, image, while respecting each printmaking discipline(s), as it melds medium, process and concept. Drawings, studies and printed proofs will be initially created to learn, explore and plan strategies for the edition. The editioned print can be either experimental or more traditional. The course will culminate in a professionally presented printed edition that will be kept by the artist numbering enough prints to accommodate a class print exchange.

Estimated Materials Cost: $100.00

Elective; advanced students only

This course may be repeated for credit.

Students will stretch their own screens and will be introduced to a wide range of stencil techniques (cut film, paper stencil, crayon and glue, tusche and glue, and photo). Students are urged to experiment with stencil and printing techniques to produce a portfolio of editioned prints.

Estimated Materials Cost: $175.00

Major requirement; Printmaking majors only

Open to non-majors as elective by permission of Instructor.