Collage Drawing Investigations: Paper Beyond the Surface
10 Week Class | This course is currently not open for registration.
Collage drawing is a fun and experimental process involving a playful mixing of ideas and materials. Our investigations will focus on playing with paper and its properties. Using surface manipulations to explore these formal and conceptual possibilities: scoring, cutting and folding papers to form sculptural components within drawings. We will investigate how to extend our understanding of depth and dimensionality in drawing. Paper is not a neutral surface, it has histories, textures, particulars and connotations. We will engage in class critiques and discussions about both historical and contemporary artists using collage techniques for dissent, humour and narrative.
Note: This course is meant for students who have successfully completed Introduction to Collage or have equivalent artistic experience, and for those who aim to expand their collage drawing practices.
Base Tuition: $470 + Material Fee: $20 = $490 Total
- What You Will Learn:
- Incorporating a wide range of layered, cut and manipulated paper matter to one’s drawing repertoire
- Intricate cutting and joining processes to create layered collage drawings
- Strategies of creating sculptural paper drawings using a range of folding techniques
- Using conceptual strategies to create intentional drawings
- Discussing art work of historical and contemporary artists working with multi-media collage practices
Kyla Brown
Kyla is a Toronto based artist, educator and writer, pedestrian and mother. She/they work in a project driven practice that includes the labour of care work, community based projects, subtle public interventions, drawing-installation and video work. Exploring the everyday, material practices and mapping, Brown’s drawings look at routines, and notions of place.
She has shown at the Khyber Centre for the Arts and the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Art Mur in Montreal, XEXE Gallery and Hang Man Gallery in Toronto, as well as DNA Artspace, ArtLab Gallery, and with McIntosh Gallery's community residency in London, ON. She earned a BFA from NSCAD University, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. She has taught adult and youth courses at the University of Western Ontario, Sheridan College, Art City of Toronto, the AGO, and the Toronto School of Art.