Class information
ART115 Basic Design: 2D Foundations
- CRN: 42378
- Credits: 4
- Notes: Focus: Book Arts
- Locations, days, times, and instructors:
- Cascade PAR 105, TuThTuesday and Thursday, from 2 to 4:50pm
From September 23 through December 11, 2025, Rory R Sparks
- Cascade PAR 105, TuThTuesday and Thursday, from 2 to 4:50pm
Class materials
Textbooks
No textbooks required
Details about this class
This special topics course introduces book-making techniques within an active, hands-on studio experience. With a keen eye towards craft, composition, concept and engagement, this course explores the ways that books can function separately or interact with print. Experimental printmaking techniques will focus on myriad ways to print multiples with or without a print studio set-up. Traditional and non-traditional bookbinding will be introduced, including folded, sewn, and adhesive bindings. Alongside technical concerns, this course introduces the historical and contemporary considerations of print, paper and book culture as well as sequencing, narrative, typography, and the relationship between text and image. Current applications in book-making for artists and designers, as well as how we read prints, texts and books, will be a focus during the course. A program of demonstrations, lectures, in-class projects, discussions, and individual and group critiques will support student exploration.
Technology
There is no additional technology required for this class.
No show policy
Your instructor can mark you as a "no show" if you do not participate in your class during the first week. This will remove you from the class.
Students with disabilities
Students with disabilities should notify their instructor if accommodations are needed to take this class. For information about technologies that help people with disabilities taking Online based classes please visit the Disability Services website.