Deb Rosenbaum - "Narrative Collage Workshop"
Saturday, January 20, 2024 -- 9am - 3pm
Ascension Lutheran Church
1701 W. Caley Ave.
Littleton, CO 80120
Saturday, January 20, 2024 -- 9am - 3pm
Ascension Lutheran Church
1701 W. Caley Ave.
Littleton, CO 80120
Storytelling is a basic human need like breathing. Explaining and documenting our lives, even just to ourselves, is a powerful tool for understanding and growth.
In this workshop, you will learn about organizing a picture space to visually illustrate a personal experience, memory, or story in collage. Collages can become a confusing mass of images, so we’ll look at how arrangement of line, shape, color, image, and movement can clearly communicate an idea. We’ll create some small practice studies followed by specific story prompts as we explore ways to effectively organize a work of art.
In this workshop, you will learn about organizing a picture space to visually illustrate a personal experience, memory, or story in collage. Collages can become a confusing mass of images, so we’ll look at how arrangement of line, shape, color, image, and movement can clearly communicate an idea. We’ll create some small practice studies followed by specific story prompts as we explore ways to effectively organize a work of art.
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All required materials are included, but feel free to bring any printed/patterned papers you may already have on hand, as well as personal paper ephemera. You can also bring any special art tools you like to use.
We’ll start with some small collages to experiment with communicating an idea followed by several narrative prompts to get you started on a personal story.
We’ll start with some small collages to experiment with communicating an idea followed by several narrative prompts to get you started on a personal story.
Artist Statement
There is a fun challenge in the creation or “making” of assemblage and collage art. It demands constant resolution of technical skill, arrangement of parts, and development of narrative during creation. I never know what the final piece will look like and that keeps the process exciting. The end product reveals a story that might or might not be preconceived. My collection of materials (paints, scraps, found objects, memorabilia, and prints) function as a palette for spontaneous arrangements of texture, color, and narrative.
There is a fun challenge in the creation or “making” of assemblage and collage art. It demands constant resolution of technical skill, arrangement of parts, and development of narrative during creation. I never know what the final piece will look like and that keeps the process exciting. The end product reveals a story that might or might not be preconceived. My collection of materials (paints, scraps, found objects, memorabilia, and prints) function as a palette for spontaneous arrangements of texture, color, and narrative.
