Call & Echo Collage – Visual Art

Ages: 9 – 14 (Grade 3 – 8)
Part 1 / Tuesday December 1, 2020 / 1 – 2 pm
Part 2 / Tuesday December 8, 2020 / 1 – 2 pm

Description: This workshop explores creativity through playful call & echo “conversation” art games and collage collaborations. Guided by established artists’ approaches to collaboration, participants will work together using each other’s work as a starting point. They will add to, subtract from or completely reconfigure each other’s work. The result of the workshop will be a portfolio of playful art exercises and possible beginnings for continued works.

Materials: Pens, pencils, markers, paint (whatever you have!), paintbrushes, water pot for brushes, kitchen towel or rag for spills and brush cleaning, scissors, paper, newspapers, magazines, found paper, string/thread, glue (gluestick, white glue), tape, eraser, device to photograph and send photos/scans of work to organisers, access to printer to print digital images, Optional: exacto and cutting surface, needle and thread

Note: This workshop is all about working with what you have! You do not need to have all of the materials.

Artist Bios: Anna Jane McIntyre is an artist whose playful practice combines storytelling, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, performance and microactivism. Her work investigates how people perceive, create and maintain their notions of self through behavior and visual cues and is an ever-shifting visual mashup of British, Trinidadian and Canadian cultural traditions.

Venus Lukic is a visual/conceptual artist originally from Toronto. Figurative abstract painting, bookmaking, and conceptual/performative art projects are several methods in which she uses materials in a humorous way to play with and create discourse on the roles of women and other human beings as individuals existing within a diverse inter-cultural society.

QEP Competencies

Visual Arts: To produce individual works and media works; To appreciate works of art, traditional artistic objects, media images, personal productions and those of classmates
CCC: Uses information, Uses creativity, Uses information and communications technologies, Cooperates with others