The Big Print

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The Big Print is a course that emphasizes the experimental aspects of printing, and how printmaking methods can be used in unique ways to create large, powerful images. This course utilizes relief printmaking—one of the oldest simplest and most “democratic” printmaking methods—to explore the scale and impact of print. Extensive technical exploration in linocut and woodcut techniques will be complemented by research into and discussion of the history of print workshops, public print installations, and the role of printmaking in grassroots political movements. Students will complete a series of four print projects getting successively larger in size and culminating with a collaborative woodcut composed from four sheets of plywood and printed with a road roller.