The Collaged World: Research, Reassembly and New Meaning with Marie B. Gauthiez
Class | Registration opens 11/19/2025 12:00 AM EST
The 10-week class is an exploration of collage as both a dynamic visual technique and a powerful conceptual tool. This class moves beyond cutting and pasting to use collage as a profound metaphor for investigating our contemporary world.
Students will look into the history of collage and its current applications, focusing on the works of contemporary artists who use fragmentation and reassembly as methods of self-expression. Through personal research and investigation, students will be asked to look at the world around them—its cultural, political, and personal fragments—and remix them into new, impactful meanings.
Objectives:
-Historical Context: Gain an understanding of collage history and how contemporary artists are using it today.
-Creative Techniques: Learn and practice diverse methods, including techniques that incorporate simple printmaking, image transfers, and 3D forms.
-Conceptual approach: Uncover or refine topics that drive your practice, find personal images or vernacular images through digital and in-person research to build a collection of references. Use the materiality and composition of your work as a method for social or personal inquiry.
- Your instructor has provided a list of materials required to participate fully in this class.
If you have any questions about specifics or what is needed week-to-week, please reach out to your instructor via the email in your confirmation letter.
- Access to the internet with a laptop or iPad.
- Access to an inkjet printer (At home or at Staples, Kinco and such)
- Rice paper
- Hand sanitizer
- Inkpress glossy inkjet paper
- Foam brushes
- Mixed media paper pad 18 x 24 inches
- 3 or 4 jars of fluid acrylic (think about mixing colors to extend those initial colors)
- A jar of mat medium
- 1 Non-Glare Acrylic Sheet - 8" x 10" for monoprinting (pack on Amazon or at Blick)
- Newsprint
- Grafix Double Tack Mounting Film - 18" x 24", Sheet
- Canson Vellum White 19-1/2" x 25-½ 55 lb (90 gsm)
- Embroidery thread (one or two colors to start)
- Gelli plate
What you might already have:
- Sketchbook
- Woodless graphite
- Pencils, pens
- Colored pencils or markers, crayons
- Scissors, Xacto knife
- Paper towels
- Watercolor and various brushes
- Acrylic (regular) and various brushes
- Upcycled tissue papers usually used for gifts
- Magazines, newspapers, salvaged surfaces, personal documents or ephemeral
- A medium-sized needle to go through paper
- Upcycled yogurt or jam jars for water
- Palette (paper plates or palette paper)