Art at the Library - Mixed Media & Collage

I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

- Hannah Hoch

Collage is an art form and technique in which individual pieces or materials—think of pieces of paper or photographs—are assembled into a new and autonomous artwork with a predominantly two-dimensional character.

We travel back to the start of the 20th century in France, where collage would find its way to the realms of high art in 1912, orchestrated by Cubism’s greatest masters, Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque. 

Braque’s Fruit Dish and Glass and Picasso’s Still Life with Chair Caning are seen as the earliest forms of collage art in Western art history, resulting in the term ‘collage’ derived from the French word coller—which means ‘to glue’ or ‘to stick.’

Ever since, Collage Art would play a role in art history, as a favorite art form for Cubists, Dadaists, and Pop Artists.

We will provide all the supplies needed to try your hand at making a collage, or even doing some mixed media art projects.