Collage 2: The Figure & Representation
10 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-10-15 12:00 PM
In this course students will investigate the figure and identity through collage processes. Projects will explore how to represent bodies with layering, montage and additive and subtractive drawing methods. Since collage has historically been a medium to break traditional molds, it is a wonderful art form to expose and investigate layers of identity that we hold and express.These are jumping off points for play with materials. Class discussions and critiques will connect these explorations to artists who use collage for dissent, humour, and narrative.
Note:
- This class is for students who have some collage experience, or those with more experience looking to expand the ways they think and create with found imagery.
- There will be no class March 16.
$500 +
Material Fee: $20 =
$520 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Working with figures in conceptual and narrative contexts
- Incorporating a wide range of imagery to investigate and express identity
- Exploring representation as a visual tool and how to manipulate 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
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.