Print Art - Cornish College of the Arts

Print Art from Cornish College of the Arts is a Campus Bachelor Printmaking degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. During the first year, students study the material, technical, and conceptual foundations of visual art and are challenged to re-evaluate their notions of what art is, what it does, and how it is made. Students are also encouraged to explore the vast potentials of creating and collaborating. In the second year of study, media-specific studio work is introduced and each student begins to explore three of the five areas of subconcentration in year-long studio courses. During the third year, students select their two areas of subconcentration and pursue art-making in more intensive studio classes. In the fourth year, students are required to achieve self-motivated creative independence?the key to survival and success beyond the support of the academic arena. The Art Department encourages students to engage in intermedia and cross-disciplinary artistic projects. Formal opportunities for these collaborations exist in departmental courses and exhibition programming, as well as in interdepartmental courses and productions. Informal opportunities for student collaborations abound. Students enrich their studio experience by choosing from a wide range of electives both inside and outside the major. Art History and Art Theory courses provide students with historical and conceptual contexts for their applied work while placing a strong emphasis on sharpening students' verbal and written language skills. Students also take a variety of Humanities and Sciences classes, which enrich the degree program. These courses harmonize with and are integral to a Cornish arts education. Print Art The Cornish Print Art Program is devoted to works on paper and prints and designed with a worldview. Students explore through their own images the various Western techniques in intaglio, lithography, monoprint as well as sosaku-hanga (the Japanese woodcut technique where printing is done with water-based pigments). The aim of the course of study is to expand the repertoire of visual languages available to the student, to encourage direct invention in this medium, and to foster a method of thinking artistically through the making of original prints. Students are encouraged to integrate both traditional methods and contemporary innovations in their work. View more details on Cornish College of the Arts . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Printmaking courses.