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Surface Moves: Photography & Collage

8 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-07-02 12:00 PM

Adult: Introduction - Intermediate
2026-09-21-2026-11-16
6:00 PM-9:00 PM on Mon
$450.00 CAD

Surface Moves: Photography & Collage

8 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-07-02 12:00 PM

This course investigates new possibilities of contemporary photography through the means of sculpture, print and collage. The inherent qualities of photography and print ephemera will be explored in this class as it brings together a group of stylistically diverse but similarly adventurous and innovative artists, as they explore the intense creative experimentation in photography that has occurred in the last 20 years. A variety of techniques will be covered from week to week in practical demonstrations including, cutting, folding, ripping, mobiles-making, printing on fabric, embroidery and even some digital interventions. We will look to contemporary artists Alison Rossiter, Letha Wilson, Matthew Brandt, Julie Cockburn, Jessica Eaton, and Gerhard Richter— all of which have reconsidered and reinvented the role of light, colour, composition, materiality, and subject in photography.

Note: There will be no class on Monday, October 12th due to the Thanksgiving holiday

Base Tuition: $420 + Material Fee: $30 = $450 Total
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  • What You Will Learn:
    A variety of paper folding and surface manipulation techniques:folding, ripping, cardboard slot sculptures, mobile-making, painting and even cyanotype
    - How to think beyond the 2D surface of photograph using unusual materials such as lights, thread and objects
    - How to create series based on self-directed/structural projects in photography
    - Exposure to installation, sculpture and painting as a means to activate photographs
    - Tactics and strategies preparing work for exhibition
    - Learning historical and contemporary artists working in experimental photography
Thalmann, Jessica
Jessica Thalmann

Jessica is an artist and educator currently based in Toronto and New York City. She received an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College and a BFA in Visual Arts from York University. Thalmann has taught at the International Centre for Photography, Akin Collective, MacLaren Art Centre, Toronto School of Art, Gallery 44 and City College of New York.  She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada, and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a recipient of grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Aperture Foundation, International Centre for Photography, Camera Club of New York Baxter St, and Humble Arts Foundation (New York), VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver), Museum of Contemporary Art, Harbourfront Centre, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Angell Gallery, Gallery TPW, Art Spin, and Gales Gallery at York University (Toronto).