Collage Explorations 2: Strange Tales
12 Week Class | Available
Collage Explorations 2 is structured thematically, with a series of projects based on one or more topics for exploration. For this term, the theme will be Strange Tales. We will gather and read a wide range of unusual stories, folk and fairy tales as inspiration and as a catalyst for art making. Some of our explorations will be Transformations and Hybrid Beings, The Endless Task, and Red Roses, Blood and Stains…
Students will work with a wide range of found materials, which we will transform through mixed media processes of collage, assemblage and installation. Students can choose to work on structured assignments or in a self directed way with a view towards developing a cohesive body of work. Throughout the course, reference will be made to the history of collage and assemblage as well as to the role of this art form in contemporary practice. These references will inform and enrich art making, dialogue, and discussion.
Prerequisite: Collage Explorations 1, Collage Journals or equivalent experience.
Base Tuition: $540 + Material Fee: $20 = $560 Total
___________________________________________________________________________________
- What You Will Learn:
- Thinking more deeply about concepts and content
- Creating a series based on self directed/structural projects
- Exposure/choice of wide range of materials and processes
- Moving our work towards presentation; expanding our thinking to installation and exhibition
- Exposure to both historical and contemporary artists in collage
- Developing language to talk about artwork
Donnely Smallwood
Donnely is a mixed media and installation artist and who has taught adults at the Toronto School of Art since 2001. Using found imagery and text as a starting point, Smallwood transforms a wide range of disparate materials by cutting and rearranging. She is most interested in how collage processes, by isolating and transforming images, work to alter and intensify the reading of the material. Her collage and assemblage fragments come together to form book works, collage drawings and elaborate site-based installations.