Collage Drawing Investigations: Paper Beyond the Surface
10 Week Class | FULL
In this course, students will investigate paper’s properties by scoring, cutting, folding, and layering to create sculptural components within their drawings. Projects will incorporate ink, photographic images, printed matter and text to create collage drawings that build on surface experimentations. Further, paper structure elements will create non-neural environments for drawing. Through studio experiments, students will investigate how to extend their understanding of depth and dimensionality in drawing. Papers’ histories, textures, and connotations are jumping off points for play. Class demonstrations will use surface manipulations to explore these formal and conceptual possibilities as we work with transparency, layering, and additive and subtractive methods of collage to develop representational and abstract ideas. Class discussions and critiques will connect these explorations to historical and contemporary artists who use collage for dissent, humour, and narrative.
Notes:
- This course is designed 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.
- There will be no class on Thursday, March 19th, 2026.
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.