Printmaking : IUPUI Bulletins

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M.F.A. in Visual Art and Public Life

Printmaking

The printmaking curriculum provides a broad and intensive experience for printmaking graduate students. Students will be able to explore and experiment in a wide variety of media and processes, including plate and stone lithography and the intaglio processes of etching, engraving, and aquatint. The printmaking program also supports work in monotype, woodcut, and silkscreen. Spacious, well-equipped facilities for the study of traditional approaches to printmaking are augmented by additional facilities for the investigation of digital and photomechanical processes. The printmaking graduate program is housed within Herron’s new state-of-the-art 163,000 square foot facility that opened in 2005.

At the graduate level, students will acquire new technical skills and refine skills students have developed already to an advanced professional level while students are challenged to undertake an extensive and intensive examination of the thematic and theoretical content that fuels their creative work. Graduate students are given considerable autonomy for working in self-defined directions in consultation with faculty while focusing on printing technologies most appropriate for individual development. Graduate group and individual critiques, field trips, portfolio projects, exhibition opportunities, collaborative public art projects, and workshops and lectures by visiting artists complement the studio experience by providing critical discussion, and a broader framework for professional development.

Printmaking Suggested Plan of Study

First Year Course Work

Fall		Credits
HER-G 510	Studio Emphasis I: Materials and Methods in Printmaking	6
HER-R 529	Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Visual Arts	3
HER-H 560	Visual Culture: A Visual Studies Approach	3
HER-J 530	University Visual Art Teaching Practicum or Free Elective	3
	Total	15

Spring		Credits
HER-G 520	Studio Emphasis II: Theory into Practice in Printmaking	6
HER-R 539	Urban Art Context (may be repeated)	3
HER-J 520	Project Management/Public Art	3
HER-H 5xx	Art History	3
	Total	15

Second Year Course Work

Fall		Credits
HER-G 560	Studio Emphasis III: Advanced Practice in Printmaking	6
HER-R 539	Urban Art Context (if repeated)	0-3
	Graduate Studio Elective	3-6
HER-H 610 or HER-H 501	Art Theory & Criticism or A Critical Approach to Art	3
	Academic Elective	0-3
	Total	15

Spring		Credits
HER-R 599	Studio Emphasis IV: Thesis	6
	Graduate Studio Elective	6-9
	Art History or Academic Elective	0-3
	Total	1

IUPUI Campus Bulletin 2010-2012