Expanded Collage (Online)
Connie Zheng
4 Sessions >> Wednesdays, June 22 -August 12
6:00pm-8:00pm, Online, $195
Take your collage work to the next level by experimenting with scale, digital reproduction methods, moving image/video/film, and three-dimensional space. Additionally, students will be encouraged to play with large-format paper, mixed media, video, and installation. Lectures will also investigate the historical origins of collage as well as contemporary practitioners using assemblage as a primary visual language. Some collaging materials will be provided by the instructor, although students will also be expected to collect their own.
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Connie Zheng is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and experimental filmmaker who was born in China and is currently based out of Oakland, California. Her work is interested in developing new language around ecological apocalypse, diasporic place-making, and the political potentials enabled by fantasy as a means of community-building amidst climate change. She has presented scholarly work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and exhibited her visual work around the U.S., including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco), and AIR Gallery (New York). She is currently a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts and has also been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center (Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Painting fellowship) and ACRE. Her writing has appeared on SFMOMA's Open Space platform and in Art Practical and the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. She received an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and BAs in Economics and English (Creative Nonfiction) from Brown University.
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What materials (if any) will I need to bring to class?
Each course requires specific materials that we ask you bring to your first class session so you can get started making right away. Materials lists are available online on our
What are my transport/parking options getting to San Francisco Art Institute?
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For courses that meet for ten sessions or more, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given if written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the third class. No refund is given after the class has met three times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.
For courses that meet for six sessions or fewer, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the second class. No refund is given after the class has met two times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.