How to Collage: An Inventive Art Lesson by Rob the Art Teacher, introducing artist Saya Woolfalk

One of the best ways of growing our creativity is to get ideas from other artists, and then transform them through the filters of our own imagination, our experience, and the art materials we have at hand.
This collage project is inspired by the artwork of Japanese-born, and New York-based artist Saya Woolfalk, and the teaching of Birmingham-based Czech artist Tereza Bušková.
Saya Woolfalk’s creative idea involves a fictional race of women, the Empathics, who alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants.
The collage challenge arising from observing Woolfalk’s work, is to create your own Human-Plant Fusion Collage by following the steps shown in the video.


ARTWORK CREDITS:
Saya Woolfalk
http://www.sayawoolfalk.com/

Tereza Bušková
https://www.terezabuskova.com/

Students of the Monday Art Club at Chad Vale Primary, Birmingham (UK), taught by artist Tereza Bušková https://www.facebook.com/656670271/posts/10159227925965272/

Students of Grade 7 (2021-22) at The American Elementary School in Gdynia, Poland, taught by Rob the Art Teacher

VIDEO CREDITS:
“What world do you want to live in?” by Saya Woolfalk, at TEDxKCWomen (Dec 2018)
https://www.ted.com/talks/saya_woolfalk_what_world_do_you_want_to_live_in

MUSIC and SOUND CREDITS:
This video uses the music “Misty Mountain top” from the Microsoft video editing library

This video uses the soundtrack “Woodland birdsong in June” from freesound: Woodland birdsong June .wav by juskiddink ( https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/ )

This video uses the soundtrack “Adult male blackbird and many other birds giving song in garden surroundings” Dawn chorus with blackbirds in the foreground (MP3, 2,281K) (opens in new window)
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/bird-songs-and-calls/

This video uses the sound effect “Water Lapping” from YouTube Studio Audio Library



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Rob Garrett is an accomplished art teacher, writer, and curator. With fine art and art history degrees from leading New Zealand Universities, he is a qualified teacher with experience teaching art to all ages, having worked in primary (elementary) schools, high schools, and higher education art schools (academies), including a time as the Head of New Zealand’s oldest art school, in Dunedin. His public service includes periods as a senior manager of arts development and as a Council member (governance) with New Zealand’s arts council. His international work with artists has included directing and establishing artist residency programmes, managing New Zealand’s presence at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, and curating numerous public art exhibitions, festivals, and city-wide programs.