Collage

Los

Angeles

Municipal

Art

Gallery

LAMAGPlayat Home.

Collage.Grades: K - 12Duration: 35 - 45 minutes (can be broken up into segments)

What you will need:

• Look around your home for collage supplies or recycled materials that are safe to use.

• Assorted papers such as: cardstock, recycled papers, patterned papers, cardboard, magazines, newspapers, coupons, paper bags

• ●A variety of colorful, tactile materials such as: string, yarn or twine, buttons, ribbons, flat foam and wood shapes, rubber bands, scraps of fabric, tiny tiles, tape

• What else can you find?

*Repurposed materials that are safe and clean. Please check with an adult before using and cutting any materials. Supplies can be purchased at online art stores or discount stores.

Collage.While we are staying safe at home, we can still be creative and use our imaginations - even indoors! Let’s imagine a happy environment where we can relax during these unusual times.

Join us in making a collage of this special place, using whatever supplies you can find at home. Through this activity, we can discover how colors, textures and shapes can inspire a peaceful, calm and creative experience.

Collage.Steps

• Choose one piece of cardstock or other type of paper as your background.

• Gather a variety of items in different colors, patterns, shapes, sizes and textures.

• Cut or tear paper into different sizes.

• Arrange items on the paper and use a glue stick or glue to attach.

• TIP: Items can be layered and glued on top of each other.

• When the collage is dry, relax and close your eyes as you feel the textures of the different materials.

• Display your collage at home to remind you that “Loitering is delightful”

Collage.Optional Writing and Discussion Questions:

• Describe the peaceful and calm indoor space or environment in your collage.

• What does it feel like to be at home creating an artwork about loitering and relaxing during these times when we are indoors and staying safe at home?

• ●How do the materials you chose tell something about you - do the items remind you of special memories?

The inspiration.

Loitering is delightful was an exhibition at the LAMAG that opened in 2019. The exhibition presented the work of ten Los Angeles artists who responded in varying ways to the joyful possibilities of slowing down. Loitering is delightful encouraged visitors to delight in dawdling and showed that the gallery — a public space with free admission — was a safe place to sit, look, think and experience the artworks in a participatory manner.

Artists included: Milano Chow, Lauren Davis Fisher, Ishi Glinsky, David Horvitz, Dylan Mira, Joshua Ross, Asha Schechter, Cauleen Smith, Lani Trock and Megan Whitmarsh.

Share your project online: #FromtheLAMAGArchives and @lamagbarnsdall

Lani Trockthe unified fieldcotton fabric, bougainvillea, epipremnum, aureum, ipomoea aquatica, monstera deliciosa, fired ceramic, glass, hydroponic nutrientsdimensions variable2019

photograph by Jeff McLane.

@LAMAGBarnsdall#LAMAGallery #LAMAGLearn #LAMAGPlay

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As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities.