Telling Your Story in Collage
Adult Course | Registration opens 2/4/2025 7:00 AM MST
In this workshop, you will learn about organizing a picture space to visually document a personal experience, memory, feeling, or story in the medium of paper collage. We’ll zero in on the specifics of your story and the best way to communicate them through color, shape, image, and arrangement. What personal experience, memory, or story do you want to tell and how can you effectively use collage techniques to create it visually? Collages can become a confusing mass of images, so we’ll focus on strong organization of elements to make your work easier to “read.” No experience is necessary, collage is an easy and fun medium to master!
Learning Objectives - Students will learn and practice:
basic design principles including emphasis, movement, unity, and variety in composition
use of image, shape, color, and composition to lead the viewer's eye
collage techniques including gluing, cutting, arranging and collecting
Students will create:
small compositional studies and several finished narrative pieces
- All materials included, although we will discuss adding your own collected personal pieces for the second class.
Deb Rosenbaum
A Denver Native, Deb Rosenbaum is a professional artist with extensive art instruction experience including fifteen years as Visual Arts Director at Denver School of the Arts. Her humorous and quirky work in collage, printmaking, and sculpture reflects her passion for story telling and collecting, combining disparate materials. She currently serves as a Board member and faculty at the Art Students League of Denver.
debrosenbaum.com