Spring 2027

Letterpress Printing: Books and Multiples

Contemporary letterpress printing of text and image as an art medium, including handset type, photopolymer plates, broadsides, and artist's books.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Julie Chen

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Master a range of letterpress printing techniques to complete original artwork.

  • Engage in creative and design thinking in the development of creative projects that include text and image.

  • Develop ability to work both independently and collaboratively on creative projects.

  • Develop written and visual ideas that address issues in the world around them.

  • Apply problem-solving techniques needed to work with letterpress printing tools and equipment.

  • Develop oral and written communication skills and critical thinking during critique sessions of work and the work of peers.

  • Develop creative work that is directly connected to their wider creative practices

  • Develop a familiarity and understanding of the artist’s book collection at the Kohler Art Library through research for class that will influence their wider creative practices.

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JULIE CHEN is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Materials and techniques for contemporary letterpress printing
  • Handset type and photopolymer plate printing
  • Broadsides and artist's books

Skills

  • Letterpress printing techniques
  • Creative and design thinking
  • Oral and written communication

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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ART 486 · Spring 2027

Letterpress Printing: Books and Multiples

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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