Collage Explorations 2: Maps, Mapping & Landscapes
12 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-07-03 12:00 PM
This course is an exploration of ideas around landscape, maps and mapping; from our everyday experience of moving through the city to mapping from memory, excavating atlases and creating surreal composite landscapes of the mind. Students will work with a wide range of found imagery, maps and atlases as well as their own collection of photo based images. All will be transformed through the process of elaborate cutting and collage, in combination with mixed media and assemblage materials and processes.
This course is intended for students who have successfully completed Collage Explorations 1 (or have equivalent art experience), and who wish to continue their collage based investigations.
Base Tuition: $550 + Material Fee: $20 = $570 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Elaborate cutting and layering of collage papers
- Compositional strategies for both additive and subtractive collage
- Exposure to a wide range of materials and mixed media drawing and painting processes
- Thinking about concept and content, working on extended series and projects
- Exposure to both historical and contemporary artists working with maps, mapping and ideas around landscape, sense of place
- To expand the possibilities of art making and presentation strategies in your own art practice
Donnely Smallwood
Donnely is a mixed media and installation artist. 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.