Introduction to Collage
10 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-02-10 12:00 PM
Collage is an art form with a rich history across many artistic disciplines. By bringing multiple images together, it creates layered meanings and opens up new interpretations through juxtaposition. In this course, students will explore how to collect, select, and transform found collage materials into finished artworks. Working primarily with printed matter such as magazines, text, and other paper-based materials, students will cut, layer, and assemble imagery to create both representational and abstract compositions.
Through collaborative projects, abstraction exercises, and structured prompts, students will learn how to shape ideas and meaning into material experiments in drawing. Slide presentations, demonstrations, and group discussions will support hands-on studio work and making.
$475 +
Material Fee: $20 =
$495 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- How to incorporate a range of two-dimensional and paper-based materials into a drawing-based practice
- Intentional cutting, layering, and joining techniques to clearly define forms and relationships
- Creating “3rd meanings” and beyond, from collaged materials
- Strategies for arranging collage elements conceptually and materially to create meaning
- Discussing and comparing historical and contemporary collage works to your studio projects
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.