Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art Painting / Printmaking Track

Painting

The Painting Program offers balanced instruction towards both technical and conceptual aspects of painting. Students are exposed to a wide range of ideas and processes in relation to both historical and contemporary art practices. Through dynamic in-classroom demonstrations, student-focused discussions, field trips, and regular lectures by visiting artists, students are immersed in the vibrant field of painting.

The Painting Program provides students with spacious, naturally-lit studio rooms, and individual studio spaces are available for advanced art students. The Painting Program is strongly committed to students’ professional development and provides students with continuous opportunities to exhibit their artwork in one-person, group, and collaborative exhibitions, as well as in annual juried exhibitions at McDonough Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art.

Printmaking

The studio art major with an emphasis in Printmaking gives the student basic skills and knowledge in both traditional and contemporary print media. The Printmaking Area includes courses that focus on lithography, intaglio, screenprint, relief, monoprint/monotype, and photo/digital based printmaking applications. Students who participate in these courses learn how to create editioned prints and unique, one-of-a-kind printed works. In addition, many printmaking students chose to integrate printmaking processes into other media, such as Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Installation, and Graphic Design.

The Printmaking Area also invites students to participate in many events throughout the year, including print specific exhibitions, juried student exhibitions, printmaking fundraising events (which aid in class trips and study abroad opportunities), and collaborative printing in our Red Press Collaborative visiting artist program.

As with all BFA Studio Art majors, students must complete and pass the Freshman Foundation Portfolio Review before beginning the printmaking course sequence. The printmaking major offers a diverse range of media experiences and allows for a progression of technical and aesthetic development to best prepare him/her as a professional print artist, collaborative printer, and/or to continue onto graduate study.

Over the last few years, the Printmaking Facilities have undergone significant changes. The area has been updated with some of the safest, most current equipment/materials in the field, transforming the space into one of the most contemporary and versatile student printmaking studios in the region. To offer our students a safe environment in which to create printed works of art, the facility utilizes many non-toxic printmaking methods and chemistry. Facilities include a large printmaking studio with an outdoor balcony and plenty of natural light, an attached chemistry room dedicated to etching, and a technology lab/darkroom annex allowing us to generate photo-matrices within lithography, intaglio, and screenprint processes. The main studio includes three intaglio/relief presses, two lithography presses, large format screenprinting vacuum press, large format textile screenprinting press, a four color/two station T-shirt screenprinting press, six portable screenprinting units, lithography stone graining sink (forty count litho stone collection), paper prep/tear table, and a large paper soaking sink. The chemistry room includes a vertical etching tank, chemistry lab specific counters and sink, hotplate, acid storage cabinet, chemical storage cabinet, and a portable acid/gas/particulate matter ventilation unit. The technology lab/darkroom includes a large litho/etching plate photo-exposure unit, screenprinting exposure unit, screenprinting washout booth with commercial power washer, four Macintosh computers, scanner, tabloid sized laser printer, and a large format Epson archival ink jet printer.

Contact Information for Department of Art

To learn more about the degree programs, scholarships, exhibitions, faculty, and students, visit art.ysu.edu or contact the Department of Art directly at 330-941-3627. To schedule a personalized campus visit, contact the College Coordinator of Admission and Recruitment at 330-941-3625.

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Learning Outcomes

1.) Students will be able to demonstrate their proficiency of art vocabulary.

2.) Students will be able to demonstrate technical expertise appropriate to their progression in the program relevant to their chosen artistic medium.

3.) Students will be able to demonstrate a high level of content expression appropriate to their progression in the program relevant to their chosen artistic medium.