History/ Artists
Definitions/ Concepts
Printshop Rules/ Steps to Making
Visual Literacy/ Elements of Art
100

This artist is well noted for his use and popularization of collagraphy but did not invent this technique.

Who is Glenn Alps?

100

This printing plate is created from a type of rubber that is often found in floor covering. 

What are Linocuts? 

100

Never print without these objects made of felt.

What are Blankets?

100

Turning an old artwork into a new one.

What does it mean to upcycle?

200

She is known for her highly detailed allegorical collographs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society.

Who is Belkis Ayón?

200

Tissue glue or paste.

What is Chine-collé or Chine Collé?

200

Unclaimed prints go here.

What is print purgatory? 

200

When the whole class is staring at your artwork and responding to it. 

What is crit? 

300

These three artists popularized the use of linocuts in the 1950s

Henry Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and John Ndevasia Muafangejo.

300

This printing technique was developed in the late 1990s by George Roberts, Professor of Printmaking at Boise State University, as a non-toxic alternative to traditional lithography.

What are Pronto Plates? 

300

[Blank] Is weighted dries, and flattens out prints. 

What is the print dryer?

300

Harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. What happens on one side occurs on the other. 

What is symmetry? 

400

The American Pop Artist (1923-1997) responsible for the 1980 Woodcut The Student.

Roy Lichtenstein

400

This term was coined by cubist artists Braque and Picas, derived from the French word meaning “to glue”, and is accomplished through assemblage.

What is a collage?

400

Types of Paper

What are Hahnemuhle, Kozo, Somerset, Stonehenge?

400

[Blank] is the subject or areas of interest in an artwork. [Blank] is the background or the area that surrounds the subject of the work.

What is positive and negative space? 

500

Australian American Printmaker and Painter (1944- Present) whose work is often related to crime, adventure, and disaster narratives; rural Americana; and nature and domestic themes. He is associated with the Neo-Expressionist movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Who is Richard Bossman? 

500

The [blank] plate has no permanent features on it. All articulation of imagery is dependent on one unique inking, resulting in one unique print. However, [blank] refers to the results of plates that have permanent features on them that can be printed multiple times over, in a variety of ways

What is Monotype and Monoprints?

500

Down the drain.

Where can’t solvents go? 

500

Love is then ɘvol.

Why can’t you carve a letter frontwards onto a plate?

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