Student Learning Outcomes

• 75% meets or exceeds expectations from an assessment of 16 printed editions by 8 students from one recent semester. Each student had two editions assessed.
• Compare and contrast fine art screen printing.
• Use color theory to mix custom color inks for assigned course projects.
• Select appropriate studio practices, technologies, methods and materials to solve specific problems arising in the creation of multiple print editions in screen printing.
• Devise methods of transforming tonal images to graphic delineations.
• Discuss, analyze, and evaluate personal printed works of art as well as historic and contemporary examples using art-specific vocabulary for content, technique, and style in written and oral critiques.
• Document development stages of visual ideas for course assignments in a notebook.
• Students will understand the use of stencils of different kinds in silkscreen printmaking.
• Students will learn techniques to directly create or transfer original or existing imagery to the particulars of the silkscreen printmaking process.
• Students will acquire knowledge of silkscreen printmaking terminology which coordinates with the ARTD 45A curriculum.
• Examine the role screen printing plays in contemporary visual art.
• Analyze contemporary and historic screen printing images as inspiration for course assignments.
• Analyze the social impact of repeatable multiple images of screen printing on contemporary society.
• Synthesize personal imagery with basic key elements of design (line, color, shape, texture, space, form).