PRINTMAKING MOBILE MUSEUM

About This Suitcase

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This suitcase is a resource for students to get creative while understanding the history of the art. There are many processes for printmaking, and they are all focused on how an image is created on one surface and then transferred to a piece of paper, fabric, or other material. All printmaking processes have the capability of reproducing an image. For example, money is a print that we see every day; the numbers, words, and pictures on a dollar bill have been printed onto the paper. Printmaking is also the way we reproduce images on T-shirts, posters, newspapers, and magazines. Fine art printmaking works the same way, but with a different purpose: it allows the artist to express themselves in a way that is unique to the processes and materials they use. Different materials give prints different characteristics, like texture, line, movement. The goal of this suitcase is for students to explore printmaking while knowing from where it came.