Dating back centuries, wallpaper was once a hand-printed and hand-painted luxury based on the practice of hanging expensive patterned silks and pictorial tapestries. However, through the mechanization and industrialization of print processes, the cultural cache around commercial wallpaper diminished. In this course, students re-engage the lexicon of printed wallpaper and interior fabrics to explore notions of "interiority." How might surfaces (walls, beds, tables, floors, windows) be draped with printed fabrics to materialize interior landscapes and imagined worlds? Using analog and digital processes, students create interior fabrics that convey decorative, social, sexual, linguistic, political, intimate, and/or cultural narratives. Now that this course will be taught fully online, students can expect to engage their ideas using the Adobe Creative Suite. Using hand drawn or photographic imagery to explore engineered and repeat patterns, Katherine Karnarky will draw on her extensive industry expertise to help students explore fine arts and design-based applications. This class includes assigned reading and is open to all majors, including Animation, Illustration, Interior Design, Printmaking, and Painting/Drawing.Online course sections will be delivered mostly asynchronously, with some synchronous components that will be outlined in the course syllabus if applicable.

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