College of the Atlantic students in professor Catherine Clinger’s Studio Printmaking course develop a broad understanding of the history of prints–how they have functioned to communicate, document, and transmit information through images on paper–while acquiring basic printmaking skills, with an emphasis on relief (woodcut and linocut) and intaglio (line etching, engraving, and aquatint) techniques.
A print mirrors the surface whence it came and also performs as a reflection of the physical and/or immaterial realms of objects and ideas. Representing concepts clearly in any medium requires an artist to engage in thoughtful collaboration with materials in order to realize the potential of form as a means of expression. Clinger’s course explores ways to address this aesthetic challenge through printmaking.
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