Cut & Paste: image, abstraction, and composition in collage

From decorative pastime to countercultural rallying cry, collage has a long and multifaceted history in art and craft. You will be exploring introductory material and technical approaches to making abstract compositions in cut and glued paper, and will be experimenting, playing, cutting, tearing, and remixing to your heart’s content. We will end with an informal presentation of our creations and a brief and highly incomplete lecture on collage from the 19th to the 21st century.

Supplies:

• Scissors and/or Xacto knife
• Paper or board - printer paper or cardboard are fine 
• Old magazines, junk mail, wrapping paper, etc
• A scrap piece of plywood or thick cardboard as a work surface - this will get scratched/cut up/etc
• Something to draw with - pencil, chalk, sharpie, anything
• Glue stick, masking tape, and/or and/or any tape you have