PR200 Relief Printmaking 3 credits
An introduction to the relief-printing process through woodcut and other relief media. Assignments cover design, drawing, color, and printing techniques with emphasis on individual projects, e.g., broadsides, portfolios and small books.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR205 Screen Printmaking 3 credits
An introduction to screen printing methods of printmaking using primarily water-based processes and including direct, hand-cut, digital, and photographic stencils. Assignments cover design drawing, color and printing techniques.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR210 Etching 3 credits
This course is an introduction to the intaglio process of printmaking. Through a series of projects, students develop work in dry point, etching, aquatint, softground, and relief etching. Class structure allows for work in various processes and encourages long-term projects.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR215 Lithography 3 credits
This course is an introduction to the process of lithographic printing. The expectation is that students find a way to realize their ideas within the technical and conceptual limitations of the lithographic medium. Drawing and design are important; experimentation is encouraged.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR216 Computer Imaging 3 credits
Computer Imaging is a basic introduction to Macintosh™ imaging programs. Class projects include combinations of drawing, scanning, image composition, image manipulation, and digital output options. Students work both on and off the computer and become familiar with the Macintosh™ operating environment and other graphic processes options.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective; dual coding: see IL 216

PR220 Introduction to Print Media 3 credits
A exploration of contemporary print media that addresses a variety of print processes including digital, photopolymer, transfer, and screen prints. Students are introduced to print applications through a series of projects that engage issues of appropriation, transformation, and iteration. The course is also an introduction to several of the basic principles of transferring in from one surface to another.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: Lens, Technology, Time Elective; Studio Elective

PR225 Artists' Books 3 credits
This course explores the production of one-of-a-kind and editioned books. Through traditional and alternative printmaking processes, class assignments focus on the integration of visual images and words. Works by contemporary and modernist book artists provide a broad underlying foundation for critical discussion of student work.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR230 Mixed Multiples 3 credits
Relief printing, intaglio and screenprinting are the focus of this advanced course wherein traditional printmaking processes are combined with photographic, digital and other industrial or "commercial" processes. Stencils are applied and adapted to a variety of surface materials including metal, plastic, wood and masonite which are treated to produce intaglio, relief and collograph prints. Students experiment with presentations of the multiple in variable and controlled editions, books, installations and hybrid forms.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR235 The Collaborative Print 3 credits
This course emphasizes the collaborative capabilities present in the printmaking process. The tradition of collaboration acknowledges the importance of rational planning and communication skills as well as the intuitive processes associated with creativity. Students explore the history and context of various models for collaboration as well as the work of specific collaborative artists such as The Fluxus artists, Group Material, General Idea and others. Projects focus on the development of concepts and images through a shared involvement in the creative process. This will take the form of directed projects such as an exquisite corpse­style exchange or other multi-part or large scale projects involving multiples. Montserrat's print facility will be used to produce a print project (edition or otherwise) with a visiting artist. Students develop problem-solving skills as they explore the implications of their own ideas and the ideas of others, break down projects into stages, discuss the developing images and adopt or invent print processes for the purpose of resolving the final result. Innovation and hybrid media approaches will be encouraged.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR240 Printmaking and the Public Realm 3 credits
Working from the tradition of prints as a vehicle for political/social change, students employ traditional studio and commercial printmaking processes to move their work outside the studio to the street to engage a larger public. Projects address site-specific work with an emphasis on conceptual thinking, planning, and collaboration. Work is generated through various interactions among clusters of students with visiting artists and with populations beyond Montserrat. Typical projects might include a billboard, a printed and distributed Ezine, a storefront, installation, exchanges with other institutions, community projects, steamroller workshops, and other outside projects.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: 200-level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR260 Letterpress Printing I 3 credits
An introduction to the process of letterpress printing with an eye to building books. Emphasis on the narrative and conceptual potentials of letterpress and simple (single section pamphlet, accordion and double-fan adhesive) binding structures. Students work through setting type; proper use of all of the different presses in the College's letterpress shop; registration and imposition; polymer plates; study of the history of metal and wood type. Projects include a group broadside, individual (announcement or business) cards, one and multicolor posters, and small pamphlets. Individual and more complex projects may be possible if time allows. Field trip to the Museum of Printing History in North Andover.
Prerequisites: Drawing I, 2-D Design and LTT Elective; or Permission of Instructor
Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR265 Bookbinding I 3 credits
This course is focused around the book as structure, object and information. In the first half of the semester, students create models of basic binding structures (focusing mostly on the codex structure) — one model per week. Homework and projects during this time involve creating content filled books based on the structure leaned during the week. These books/homework projects serve as not only practice in binding, but also as "sketches" of production of ideas that could be expanded on or refined in the projects later in the semester. Structures covered include link stitch, long stitch, Coptic, Japanese style and case bindings, as well as other structures for one and multiple signatures; different approaches to the "cover" are also addressed. Throughout, use and choice of materials, adhesives and tools are emphasized. Students provide content, which for those who have taken Elements 1 may be produced through letterpress printing. In the second half, students work on the individual projects based on structures learned up to that point. Field trip to working print shops and binderies.
Prerequisites: Drawing I, 2-D Design and LTT Elective; or Permission of Instructor
Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective; Studio Elective

PR299 Topics in Printmaking 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Printmaking. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students); Studio Elective

PR299 Topics in Printmaking 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Printmaking. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
Fulfills: 200-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students); Studio Elective

PR310 Monoprinting 3 credits
In this course monoprintmaking techniques are used for drawing. Emphasis will be on the creative and formal, on experimentation as well as on analysis of form. Students work from models, still life, and landscape and transfer the image from plates to paper. Application and wiping of inks, double inking and printing, and additive and subtractive methods are taught. Students learn the monoprint technique as a process of making images from observation as well as from imagination.
Prerequisites: one 200-level printmaking course
Fulfills: 300-level Printmaking Elective; Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PR325 Printmaking Workshop 3 credits
Students work toward the production and exchange of a thematic portfolio. The class collectively decides on a theme, presentation and technique for each semester portfolio. Print development, refinement of imagery, technical facility in editioning, curating and presentation are considered in relation to the traditions of fine art printing and collaboration. Students from other colleges may participate in exchange of finished portfolios.
Prerequisites: one 200-level printmaking course
Fulfills: 300-level Printmaking Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PR345 Printmaking Through the Social Lens 3 credits
Throughout the advent of the technology to reproduce images, artists have used these tools to help effect changes in their direct environments. From the Gutenberg press and the distribution of knowledge in book form, the Works Progress Administration artists, the propaganda posters of both World Wars, to the movement of independent self published zines, artists have used the reproducible image to communicate with the world. This course considers the history of printmaking in the context of a studio class. Through the exploration of how artists have used printed matter to communicate with their times students will create directed and self directed projects based on their research. Clear directed writing about their research will supplement the students investigations. Techniques may include letterpress, lithography, etching and digital output. By looking at strategies artists have used over time students will appropriate these techniques and ideas into their own work.
Prerequisites: One 200-Level Printmaking Course
Fulfills: Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students); 300-Level Studio Elective

PR360 Letterpress Printing II 3 credits
This course is designed to build on the basic skills developed in Letterpress Printing 1. It emphasizes book production (rather than broadsides and posters); projects involving greater complexity and requiring more planning and attention to detail; and experimentation. The course addresses: further experience with setting text-weight type; practical work with polymer plates, including their production and ordering; editioning; multi-color and multi-pass printing; and use of type as a visual element (type, rules and sorts as ornament and pattern). The course is enriched by examination of examples and by field trips.
Prerequisites: Letterpress Printing I
Fulfills: 300-Level Printmaking Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PR365 Bookbinding II 3 credits
This course is designed to build on the basic skills and knowledge developed in Bookbinding 1. Students will explore more involved and complex structural models, including album structures, long-stitch and exposed spine structures, and boxes and enclosures. Other issues to be addressed include edition binding, and correlation of content, structure and material. The course is enriched by the examination of examples, attention to the history of artists’ books, and field trips.
Prerequisites: Bookbinding I
Fulfills: 300-Level Printmaking Elective; 300-Level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PR399 Topics in Printmaking 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Printmaking. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
Fulfills: 300-Level Printmaking Elective (Printmaking Students); 300-Level Studio Elective

PR900 Independent Study in Printmaking 3 credits
Advanced work in the student's major field of study, supervised by a designated faculty member.
Prerequisites: One 300-level printmaking course. Only open to third and fourth year students.
Fulfills: