Author: Tanecia Nunlee

While working with the many processes of printmaking, students will engage with the printed image while considering the historic aspects of the techniques involved in the production of a print. This course is an introduction to the following areas of printmaking: relief (woodcuts and linocuts), intaglio (etching), and lithography. Students will learn the basics of each area through, collaborations and hands-on short workshops. Context is discussed and explored through demonstrations, readings, image presentations, and visits to local galleries, community prints-shops, and museums with a range of print-media.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFN 103 DFN 104 DFN 120 SAC 105 (formerly DFA 105)

Using the City of Detroit as its inspiration, students will employ various research methodologies as a starting point for creating prints. Projects will be approached through one of three perspectives: experiential, historical and political. Techniques introduced will include relief printing, laser cutting, print from found objects and silkscreen. Students will print both with and without a press to create limited edition prints as well as DIY or on-the cheap multiples using commercial print processes. Those students who have taken Intro to Printmaking or have prior college level printmaking experience will be encouraged to build on techniques they’ve already learned to develop their own creative voice.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFN 103 DFN 104 DFN 120

This course focuses on an in-depth examination of intaglio (copper plate etching) and lithography processes, while dealing with traditional and contemporary methods such as; stone and plate lithography, limited edition versus unique printing, and photo-transferring digital imaging.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFN 103 DFN 104 DFN 120 DPM 115 (formerly DFA 115)

This course has been structured to develop a range of creative relationships, and the technical and conceptual skills, necessary to produce content in printmaking media. Forms including artist books, ephemera, and hybrid and collaborative print ventures will be investigated. Students will be guided and encouraged to develop strategies to publish, edition, and disseminate their work into a range of markets, and for a number of audiences, beyond the gallery and the museum. Working with faculty, each student proposes, in writing, a semester-long program of involvement and creative activity resulting in a personally directed body of work and publication. It may cross disciplines, combine processes, or be focused on more advanced technical issues. In all cases, it links to the student’s conceptual investigations in other disciplines.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFN 103 DFN 104 DFN 120 DFA 115

In this course, students explore the interdisciplinary nature of the book form and its content from conception to execution. This course covers all stages of creating a limited edition book, including development of text, instruction of printmaking, letterpress and digital technology, and a variety of bookbinding techniques.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFN 117, DFN 120 and DFN 137

The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFN 116, DFn 118, DFN 105, DFN 106

This course allows students who have progressed beyond the beginning level screen printing course, and engage with a more extensive and expansive approach as it relates to their own art practice, all while presenting important visual and conceptual problems relevant to the screen printing medium that challenges previous set boundaries of the serigraphy and its methodologies.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SAC 105 (formerly DFA 105) and DPM-260 (formerly, DFA 260)