Events and Environments is a studio course where students create installations and performances that incorporate Printmaking techniques into a multimedia context. Students are encouraged to create experiences that transform the gallery setting or exist outside it. The course facilitates cross media experimentation, while also introducing the computer programming environment Max/MSP/Jitter as a solution for creating participatory situations and integrations between image and sound. Writing in 1968, Allan Kaprow said, “…most advanced art of the last half-dozen years is, in my view, inappropriate for museum display. It is an art of the world: enormous scale, environmental scope, mixed media, spectator participation, technology, themes drawn from the daily milieu, and so forth.” Central to the course is the discussion of aesthetic innovations exemplified by Allan Kaprow’s ‘Happenings’ and ‘Environments’ which will offer a context for student work, and provide a spring board for examining broader art classifications such as ‘Performance Art’, ‘Site Specific Art’, ‘Sound Art’, and ‘Experimental Music’. Students will be challenged to explore and invent new ways of utilizing Printmaking in their work. In the first half of the semester, students will conduct research, complete exercises, and collaborate on midterm projects. In the second half of the semester, students will form final project proposals, and then work collaboratively or individually, reporting their progress in regular critique session