Intuitive Collage Workshop with grace (ge) gilbert

Everyone has an archive. An archive is what you are left with– materials, photographs, documents, questions, the ripple effects of what and who has shaped your history. As Muriel Rukeyser states, “poetry can extend the document.” How can we push this extension further by inviting the textures of our real archives into our creative work?
In this generative and hands-on two-hour workshop, we will learn why (and how) one might manipulate personal “artifacts” to create multimedia collages that interrogate ruptures and absences in our personal and familial histories. We will explore hybrid works of contemporary visual poetics and interrogate our own personal histories through prompts, experiments, and discussion, toward the end of coming away with some new creative experiments and ideas for future projects…