Students showcase, sell various prints
The USU art department is hosting its seventh annual student print sale, giving students the opportunity to showcase their work and make it available for purchase.
“This sale gives students the opportunity to sell their work, and a portion of the profits goes to the print guild,” said Kathy Puzey, professor of the print-making class.
The print sale contains prints done by all the students and uses a variety of mediums and print-making techniques.
Puzey said, “They are made from metal, stone, wood or screens, which filter ink on to silk.”
The class also made T-shirts to sell at the event through these processes. The front read, “I pulled this shirt out of my acid,” which is a method for making prints.
Ann Snell, senior majoring in art, said her favorite method was one called “intaglio, which is the process of scoring a plate of copper in an acid-resistant substance then dipping in acid to create the pattern.”
At the sale, the prints are numbered, which denotes how many copies can be made. Some prints were made from “a smooth plate of glass which makes the print only capable of being printed once,” Snell said.
“It is really cool. You have to learn all the rules and then you break them,” she said. “The inspiration comes from a central idea, and you just experiment with it.”
The print class holds the sale so they can raise money to attend conferences and buy more printing supplies, Puzey said.
“It was started seven years ago by a Professor Koichi, and then Kathy Puzey came to USU and brought many new things. We never had wood cuts before Kathy came,” Snell said.
“Print making is open to all students on campus but is mostly made up of art majors,” Puzey said.
The sale continues today in Room 106 of the Fine Arts Visual building from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and is open to the public.