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Collage Explorations 1

8 Week Class | Available

Adult: Introduction - Intermediate

May 1, 2024-June 19, 2024

10:00 AM-1:00 PM on Wed

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$405.00 CAD

This fun and challenging course will introduce the fundamentals of transforming papers through paper cutting and a range of collage and mixed media processes. We will work with a variety of intriguing papers and collage materials such as photo-based imagery, vintage maps and other paper ephemera, to fine washi and patterned papers. We will transform this material through elaborate cutting strategies, re-assemblage with glues and mediums, as well as through combination with painting and drawing. We will explore image-based works and abstraction through compositions using pattern and repetition, layering and transparency, as well as negative and positive cut out shapes.

This course will also explore the rich and vibrant history of paper cutting and collage and shine a light on contemporary artists working in collage and paper arts today.

Collage Explorations 1 offers all students an opportunity to expand their thinking about composition, process and materials and offers exciting art making possibilities for students who are coming from drawing and painting practices.

Base Tuition: $385 + Material Fee: $20 = $405 Total
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  • What You Will Learn:
    -     Strategies for elaborate cutting and layering papers
    - Compositional strategies for additive and subtractive collage
    - Exposure to a wide range of of materials and processes
    - Collage in combination with drawing and painting
    - Thinking about concept and content; making choices of imagery and materials
    - Exposure to both historical and contemporary artists working in paper cutting and collage today
Smallwood, Donnely

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.