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- Communication and Visual Arts
- Major in Public Relations
- Major in Media Studies
- Major in Digital Journalism
- Minors in Communication
- Visual Arts
- Student Success
- Experiential Learning Opportunities
- Media Information Centre
- Our Faculty
- Contact Us
- Environment, Culture and Society
- Literatures, Languages, and Performing Arts
- Philosophy, History and Politics
- Chair's Message
- History
- Degree Options
- Courses
- Student Success
- Awards and Scholarships
- Handbook for History Students
- Introduction - Handbook
- Why Study History?
- Varieties of History
- Historian's Work
- Pros, Amateurs and others
- Careers
- Libraries and Research
- Taking Notes
- Formulating a Topic
- Compiling a Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Need for Recent Sources
- Where to Start
- Note-taking
- Shape of the Essay
- Style of the Essay
- Checking the Essay
- Documentation
- Bibliographies and Footnotes
- Plagiarism
- Writing Essay Examinations
- Title Pages and Formatting
- Citation Generators
- Examples
- Citation Formatting
- History Links
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Our Faculty
- Contact Us
- Psychology
- Communication and Visual Arts
Printmaking
Silkscreen
The visual arts program at Thompson Rivers University offers three courses in screenprinting. Students learn how to use both direct and indirect methods of making positives and learn how to prepare digitally generated images. Students gain experience and knowledge about fine art printmaking and many of them set-up and continue in their own studios once they complete their studies. The studio is equipped with two small vacuum tables and one large semi-automated Jaguar screen press as well as a vacuum exposure unit. Water-based inks and the use of photo emulsion create a low toxicity studio environment. New technologies over the last several years such as water-based inks and Photoshop have contributed to the growing popularity of screenprinting.
Etching and relief
TRU’s Visual Arts facilities include a studio for the Printmaking processes of etching and relief, allowing for the production of artworks using the mediums of linocut, woodcut, etching, photo-etching, solar plates and mono-printing. In addition to printing on traditional papers relief printing lends itself to a variety of surfaces ranging from cloth and t-shirts to Japanese papers and other handmade Asian papers. Students experience the use of materials and techniques to create artistic works, including editioned prints and the experimental forms of zines and hand-made artists’ books. In the context of contemporary art students are encouraged to develop their own imagery in a manner that takes best advantage of printmaking’s historic practice of creating “multiples.” The studios are equipped with two intaglio printing presses (including one Takach) and a letterpress (Vandercook) for use with moveable type.