Visit 8: Collaging True Statments

For their final assignment we worked with collage. I gave them three days to work on this project so they would have more time to create a finished product. We began by talking about three very different collage artists.

Mark Bradford


Arturo Herrera


Rebecca Plestch


I then showed them some artists who incorporate text into their work that are working in mediums other than collage.

Jenny Holzer


Doug Atiken


Jung Lee

The assignment gave the students was to create a collage that said something that they thought was true. Either a message they wanted to write out in words like the text artists or curated images that represented an idea they believed in. These are some of the beginnings of their work.