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Cordula Kagemann.. 

Working with paper and collage accommodates my love for colour, pattern and form. I am fascinated by the materiality and haptic qualities of paper and fibers and of the textures they develop in the process of creating. A sense of this process is revealed to the viewer as the work is build up through layering. I am captivated by the endless possibilities the work with paper is offering. I make my own papers but I also collect all kinds of prefabricated papers and print material. In the process paper is constructed, deconstructed and transformed. Material, colour, textures, words and images are like equal partners in a conversation as they are entering into a dialogue with one another, overlapping one another and are finally connecting and bonding into a compositional unit.“ Cordula Kagemann is a collage/ paperartist and educator from Germany. She studied visual arts and education at the University of Bremen/ Germany. She teaches collage, paperarts and painting in different locations in Northern Germany and has worked in numerous sociocultural art projects with children and adults. She maintains a studio at home where she lives in an almost 300 year old house in the countryside in Lower Saxony. Her artwork has  been shown in soloexibitions in Germany as well as in international groupshows in different parts of the world.

Cordula is a member of IAPMA (International Association of Handpapermakers and Paper Artists).

EXPLORING COLLAGE

This class invites you to explore the possibilities and advantages of mixed media collage techniques. You will work with methods that help you find a playful access to artistic creation. Your perception of the materials and their possibilites of combination together with the playful handling of demonstrated techniques will lead you to a variety of results. The use of experimental or accidental results and the individual combinations of techniques and materials with one another will release even more design possibilities. Explore the haptic qualities of different textures and surfaces by using a variety of papers, cardboards and fabrics in your work together with acrylic paint. You will experiment with juxtaposing different materials, pattern and images in your composition to create tension. New and unusual pictorial contexts will ocurr if you combine an abstract or patterned space with a concrete image. Start to create at first guided by your intuition and then step back to take a closer look on the composition to make deliberate decisions on the design. This 5 day class will give you the opportunity to experiment, explore, develop and design. Take the chance to find your theme and explore it in a series of collages! Suitable for beginning to advanced students.