Cut & Construct: History and Art of Collage
5 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-02-10 12:00 PM
Cut, layer, and glue your way through the fascinating history of collage! This five-week course traces collage’s transformation—from its playful 19th-century beginnings in handmade Valentine cards and decorative scrapbooks, to its rise as an art form by the Cubists, Dadaists, and contemporary artists of today. Each week, we’ll explore a new theme and technique, experimenting with materials, texture, and meaning. Students will create their own layered worlds using found imagery, text, and mixed media, discovering how collage invites both storytelling and surprise.
Base Tuition: $282 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- How collage evolved from domestic craft to a cornerstone of modern and contemporary art
- - Scissors and X-Acto knife with spare blades
- Small cutting mat
- Variety of papers and imagery (magazines, old books, photographs, coloured paper, photocopies, found ephemera, etc.)
- Glue stick
- Sketchbook or paper to apply collages
- Optional for experimentation: acrylic paints, brushes, and mixed-media materials
- Optional for collage coatings: Liquitex Matte Medium or Matte Mod Podge
Emily Joyce
Emily is a Toronto-based painter and paintings conservator. She specializes in the study of paint materials, from traditional egg tempera and oil paints to contemporary acrylics and mediums. The crossover of art and science in her profession has allowed her an in-depth exploration of the history and techniques of painters from a range of historical time periods such as the Renaissance, Impressionism and Pop Art. These studies have inspired her classes and workshops at the TSA. Emily has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) with a minor in art History and a Master's of Art Conservation (Queen’s University), as well as a certificate in Traditional Materials, Methods of Painting and Restoration techniques through San Gemini Preservation Studies in Italy. Outside of the TSA, Emily works at Toronto Art Restoration in the west end, conserving a range of artworks from Tom Thomson landscapes to Michael Snow's Eaton Centre’s Geese.