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Summer CoursesPrintmaking Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90 Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course, though primarily a printmaking course, meets at the cross-section of many disciplines including book-arts, drawing, photography, digital media, and journaling. It is driven by one concept: the individual artistic response to being in Florence. Each student will print images which directly reflect his/her experiences in a new culture. With only 18 class periods, this will be a rigorously challenging and extremely rewarding experience. Students may choose to interpret their experiences through many different approaches including but not limited to the following: creating cliché verre images on transparent material to be used in photo-mechanical processes (such as Image-on intaglio-type); utilizing digital media to either manipulate photographs or to create unique digital images for output onto transparent media to be used in photo-mechanical processes; using various monotype techniques to create printing matrices on site to be subsequently printed in the studio; collecting found objects to use in chin collé applications. A typical class period will commence with a lecture/demonstration and will conclude with studio time and clean up. There will be some field trips as noted in the Calendar. Instruction will cover basic through advanced printmaking processes and will include a section on simple book structures for those interested in contextualizing their work in that form. Prerequisites: Previous printmaking experience desirable but not required
Instructor: Neal Cox is a native of Provo, Utah, where he earned his BFA in printmaking from Brigham Young University. He was awarded his MFA in printmaking from the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he subsequently spent two-and-a-half years as a member of the adjunct faculty responsible for the book-arts program and as the Master Printer for the UTSA Collaborative Editions program. In addition to teaching at the Santa Reparata International School of Art, Mr. Cox has taught drawing and printmaking in the Texas Hill Country at the Majestic Ranch Arts Foundation. In his current appointment as a Visiting Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University, Mr. Cox teaches printmaking, photography, digital media, and drawing. His own work is centered thematically within the concerns of a modular aesthetic and finds its expression in a variety of media. When not involved in artistic pursuits, Neal spends time with his wife, Michelle, and their three sons, Caleb, Timothy, and Benjamin. More about Mr. Cox and his work can be found at: http://art.utsa.edu/movies/cox/work.html Schedule: Studio courses meet for a total of 80 contact
hours for 3 optional credits. Studio, Art History, and Italian classes
meet 4 days per week. On Fridays instructors may schedule field trips
to surrounding cities and museums. Studio classes meet 4 hours per day. Field Trips and Activities: Tuition includes a one-day walking tour of Siena and two half-day historical walking tours of Florence. Facilities: One of the finest to be found in Italy, students will have access to the Santa Reparata printmaking studio and all printmaking equipment during normal school hours. For more information on the equipment follow this link. Supplies and Tools: Material supplied in the course fee are:inks, brayers and rollers, tarletan, oils and solvents, rags, woodcut tools, abrasives, ImageOn film, PETG substrates, water based monoprint inks, and one or more photo-mechanical plates to be determined.
Calendar: (subject to change). |
