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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)
The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
This is an Adobe Photoshop based course focusing on creating interconnected repeat patterns and textile artworks via painting, collage, and mixed media. Students produce original designs, repeat layouts, coordinates, and colorways while exploring mood boards, color palettes and design application. File management and printing options are explained, and presentation skills are emphasized using InDesign to create a final process book along with a variety of material studies.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFN 119
Participation in an internship experience allows students to use classroom-learned skills in a related employment experience. Students must work a minimum of 135 hours over the course of the entire semester. To participate students must be of junior or senior status with completion of freshman and sophomore studios. Students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8. Seniors may not be eligible to participate in an internship during their final semester. Transfer students must have attended one semester at CCS in addition to meeting the other eligibility criteria.
Credits: 3
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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
This course investigates the interrelationship of process, creativity and concept through various casting techniques. Bronze, iron, aluminum, cement and nontraditional materials are used to explore casting as a process and as a means to a product. Open to non-majors with departmental approval.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 130, DFA 233
This course acquaints students with a wide range of screenprinting techniques and approaches using a variety of inks and a range of experimental materials. Students discover the medium’s flexibility, exploring the inherent cross-connections and expressive possibilities of photomechanical, screen stencil, monotype and digital processes.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFN 104 DFN 119 DFN 120 and SAC 105 (formerly DFA 105)
The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
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
This course is aimed at expanding the student’s modeling and casting skills and familiarity with the figure, while building on conceptual understanding of the role of the figure in contemporary sculpture.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 130, DFA 230