| Program Type | Workshop | Residency |
| Art Form | Visual Art |
| Curriculum Connections | Social and Emotional Learning | Language Arts/Literacy | Mental Health and Wellness |
| Target Grades | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Adult | Higher Education | Family |
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Having the opportunity to work with AFLCT has been truly beneficial; they've provided unique experiences that have positively impacted our students. Their professional artists are strong role-models who encouraged students to take risks, find their voices, and be confident young people. They assisted in the process of inspiring our students to discover their individual identities and be able to self-assuredly express and share their ideas and opinions.
Description
Students put a contemporary spin on collage by combining pre-printed photographic images with hand-drawn symbols, patterns, and personal imagery. Using paint pens and a guided planning process, students explore visual symbolism and make intentional design choices before adding their own creative layers to a chosen image.
The workshop can be offered as an all-paper experience using printed cardstock and drawing materials, or as a mixed-media hybrid, incorporating iPads to explore digital collage techniques alongside hands-on artmaking. Both formats encourage experimentation, creative decision-making, and individual expression while introducing students to new ways of transforming and reimagining existing images.
The workshop can be offered as an all-paper experience using printed cardstock and drawing materials, or as a mixed-media hybrid, incorporating iPads to explore digital collage techniques alongside hands-on artmaking. Both formats encourage experimentation, creative decision-making, and individual expression while introducing students to new ways of transforming and reimagining existing images.
Objectives
Students will:
-Explore visual symbolism as a tool for communicating ideas, identity, and meaning.
-Practice planning and creative decision-making before altering an existing image.
-Apply principles of composition, layering, color, and visual balance.
-Experiment with contemporary collage and mixed-media techniques.
-Transform existing imagery through personal marks, symbols, and artistic choices.
-Build confidence in creative risk-taking and individual expression.
In the hybrid version, explore how digital and traditional artmaking techniques can work together.
-Explore visual symbolism as a tool for communicating ideas, identity, and meaning.
-Practice planning and creative decision-making before altering an existing image.
-Apply principles of composition, layering, color, and visual balance.
-Experiment with contemporary collage and mixed-media techniques.
-Transform existing imagery through personal marks, symbols, and artistic choices.
-Build confidence in creative risk-taking and individual expression.
In the hybrid version, explore how digital and traditional artmaking techniques can work together.
Pricing Information
$515
Program Length
minimum 3 sessions
Participants
class size
Technical Specifications
• Set Up: 15-20 minutes
• Break: n/a
• Strike: n/a
• Electricity/Wi-Fi: Wi-fi needed
• Audiovisual/Tech: Projector is ideal, but not required
• Tables/Chairs: Tables and chairs needed
• Outside Possible: No
• Venue-Provided Supplies: Scissors, glue, paint pens, cardstock, colored pencils
• Break: n/a
• Strike: n/a
• Electricity/Wi-Fi: Wi-fi needed
• Audiovisual/Tech: Projector is ideal, but not required
• Tables/Chairs: Tables and chairs needed
• Outside Possible: No
• Venue-Provided Supplies: Scissors, glue, paint pens, cardstock, colored pencils