Graduate Advanced Skill: Transformation Position Creative Project
Collage Your Story |
Collage Your Story is an art experience and an invitation to step into a space for creative expression. It is an opportunity to create something out of seemingly nothing. With the use of 5x7 canvas, a post card or image from magazine, found words and paint; the participant is invited to create their story, with any provided art modality present. The poems would be a multi-media art piece incorporating found words, in a magnetic poetry themed way, post cards or images from magazines. With the use of Mod Podge, participants would glue the images to the canvas and then place their found words on a top of the image. This would create a beautiful art piece that could communicate their story or something inspirational or perhaps comical from the found words and image they had chosen. To the left is an example of what a collage poem could look like. I pitched this idea to a neighborhood arts festival in Rainier Beach called BAAMFest and set up a poetry booth, what happened next was not only surprising but transformational. |