On Thursday, February 27, I had the pleasure of running workshops for The Greater Edmonton Teachers’ Convention Association (GETCA) at MacEwan University. Participants included high school teachers in Fine Art, Design, Drama, and English. The first workshop was on visual narrative—front end activities prompted storytelling through futurist tools, and collage.
A noteworthy outcome from this workshop had to do with the adaptability of collage as an interpretive tool. Through image-making activities several participants generated a story/collage that evoked discipline-specific knowledge (appropriate for each teacher’s subject area).
This brief activity suggests the potential use of collage as a teaching and storytelling tool, that moves beyond an exclusively formal understanding of the medium. As discussed in this post, collage offers unique opportunities for storytelling and interpretation through the assemblage of disparate visual elements (images below are by the author).
