Collage Investigations: Representing Identity
10 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-02-10 12:00 PM
In this course students will explore ideas of identity through collage and drawing. Using collage as both a visual and conceptual tool, the course looks at how layered images, materials, and symbols can communicate personal and social identities. The collage process has long been used to challenge dominant narratives, making it a powerful way to examine the many layers that shape who we are. We will create collage drawings using ink, photographs, printed materials, and text. Through hands-on studio experiments, students will develop greater depth, dimension, and meaning in their drawings. Presentations, class work and demonstrations will introduce techniques such as cutting and reworking images, layering, building up and removing materials, and working with colour. Discussions and critiques will connect these explorations to historical and contemporary artists who use collage for dissent, humour, and narrative.
This course is designed for students who have completed Introduction to Collage or have equivalent experience and wish to expand their collage drawing practice.
Base Tuition: $475 +
Material Fee: $20 =
$495 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Incorporating a wide range of imagery to express investigating identity
- Representation as an important power structure and how to play with it
- Intricate cutting and joining processes to create layered collage drawings
- Working with conceptual aspects of drawing as well as formal characteristics
- Discussing art work of historical and contemporary artists working with multi-media collage practices
- Using conceptual strategies to create intentional drawings
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.