Near the end of this fall semester, international and domestic students in two sections of a communications course made personal collages and then wrote about them. To celebrate the multifaceted creativity expressed in the students’ work, I have documented it here. I hope viewers find the following images and words as inspiring, charming, and uplifting […]
Category archives: General
Autumn in Montreal
Fish Pond Reflections Three
Day Trip to Whitby on the GO Train
ESL Students’ Collages to Supplement a Textbook Chapter on Art for All!
Scarborough Bluffs Beach
Summer Images
Guild Park, Beach, and Wetlands Boardwalk
Haiku for the Caution Tape at Birchmount and Gatineau Trail
Caution requested at pavement’s edge. Defiant wind resists, starts dance.
Ohio Road Trip
Port Union Waterfront Park
Ink Drip Patchwork Collage
To create this effect, I repeatedly placed an ink-loaded paintbrush at various points at the top of the canvas. Then I tilted the canvas upright to allow the rivulets of ink to create their own pathways on the way down. After the vertical lines dried, I turned the canvas and repeated the process in order […]
Collages by International Students in a Leadership Course
Sunrise at East Point Park, Scarborough
Spring Lake, Dwight Ontario
Photographic Distractions While Weeding the Garden
Collage Workshops Spark Language Expression
Since 2013, I have led more than thirty collage sessions, and each one has testified to the power of art to nudge emotions, memories, and personal wisdom to the surface. Bridging visual and linguistic boundaries, collage creates a world of meaning in which a yoga pose, a set of stairs, and a gold coin […]