Visual Thinking

& Tinkering

Wednesday September 16th

(Synchronous, 5-8 pm)

Today's Agenda:

Show & Tell
Warmup
Some wisdom from Felicia van Bork
Artmaking: 20 Collages in two hours
Share
Closing: Discuss next week

Today's Goals:

I can explore and experiment with collage.

I can engage in divergent thinking about ways to alter, arrange and adhere materials.

I can express a variety of concepts through my choice of materials and compositional strategies.

I can exchange ideas and inspiration with peers to generate exploratory energy in our studio classroom environment.

I can respond to my thought process, my work and the work of my peers to better understand the role of materials and play in the artistic process.

While we wait for everyone to join us, please respond to this check-in.

LAB COAT SHOW & TELL!

Who will share today?

Warmup

This strategy inspired by: Abigail Thomas, Thinking About Memoir.

Write what you have too much of.

or

Write what you DON'T collect.

Before we begin - what are your preferred collage tools?

(circle of voices)

How to Beckon Felicia van Bork 2015

Artmaking

Please create... 20 COLLAGES IN TWO HOURS!

While you are working, please consider:

Altering materials: How many different ways can you alter the materials that you select to work with? Explore as many divergent directions as possible related to ALTERING your materials from the form in which you originally found them.

Arranging materials: How many different ways can you think of to arrange collage elements to form different compositions? How do different placements of collage elements affect the work's visual impact?

Document both your physical results and notes in your field journal.

Deborah Roberts

Carla Sonheim

David Crunelle

Crissy Arseneau

Howardena Pindell

Mike McQuade

Prompts:

A collage "about" materials and their visual/sensory qualities! (associations based on shape, color, texture, transparency, opacity, line, network etc)
A collage using shapes (not pictures) to explore pattern, rhythm, symmetry/asymmetry
A found object collage "about" social/cultural connotations and semiotic meanings of collage elements and their arrangements (do not use magazine pictures for this exercise)
A collage that uses pictorial images - deconstructing photos/pictures of things into parts and reassembling selected parts into new configurations and meanings
A collage that describes the way a place looks (interior setting, landscape, cityscape) through observation
A collage featuring people or a person in daily activities using paper shapes (not pictures) to build the figure(s) and settings.
A collage featuring animal(s) you know about.
A collage that features a common or significant object, using paper shapes (not pictures) to build the composition.
A collage that uses one other material-- paint, pencil, pastel etc. (Why that material?)
A collage that commemorates a significant social/cultural/historical event
A collage that conveys an emotion
A collage that translates/suggests a sound or smell
A collage that suggests a memory
A collage that addresses a bodily or mental state: disbelief, surprise, sleep, awakening, boredom, chill, glow etc.
A collage based on a still life
A collage that is ironic, humorous or puzzling
A collage that states a position about an issue (social, cultural, environmental, global) that concerns you
A collage that takes elements (images, parts of images, text, colors, etc) that normally wouldn't go together and suggests a relationship between them
A collage that plays with scale/size relationship among parts
A monochromatic collage (all black, all white, all purple)
A collage that features text prominently
Choose your own adventure

Click HERE to access our Padlet*

Please upload image(s) of what you created today so that we can learn from one another.

*eLearning Strategy

For next week:

THREE PLACE COLLAGES

Please visit three places and collect materials that you find at each one. List your experiences/observations/perceptions of each place.
Think of an action word (verb that describes a movement) or feeling for each place to "focus" each collage. The verb or feeling should be related to the place itself or your experience of it.
Study the materials you collected from each place and decide whether you need to incorporate anything else.
Choose materials that will help communicate the movement, action, or feeling you want to express about each place. Consider qualities: Transparency of materials, texture, pattern, color, thickness, heaviness, stiffness, flimsiness, lightness, crunchiness, etc.
Work quickly and intuitively. Try different arrangements BEFORE gluing anything down. Try to make the richest, most dynamic composition possible.
Be subtle and mysterious! Suggest your locations, don't bombard us with explicit clues

Food for thought while making:

How will you alter your materials and what meaning does each alteration hold? Tearing vs. cutting, gluing vs. stapling vs. stitching, crunching vs rolling vs. weaving and so on

How will you arrange your materials? Consider arrangements: asymmetrical? symmetrical? diagonal movement? circular motion? which materials will interact with one another? will all be equally visible or will some be more hidden/more exposed?

Please bring next week:

A collection.

Either gather the items that you collect and bring them, or bring documentation of your collection (draw sketches, take photographs, make a documentary video!)

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