Creative workshop with artist Adela Jušić
December 4 – 6, 2020
In collaboration with artist Adela Jušić and AABH Creative HUB in Sarajevo we organized a successful three-day creative workshop focusing on experimental art practices.
Participants explored creative ways of expression through collage, drawing, photography, digital photography, and various processes such as printing, scanning, composing, arranging, cutting, copying, recycling and experimenting. They learned how to bring multiple layers and raw pieces of materials into their final forms, creating works on paper and digital. Experimentation was encouraged with an emphasis on visual elements (composition, color, pattern, etc.).
Throughout the 20th century, artists across many movements, mediums, and styles began to explore collage. Coined by cubist artists Braque and Picasso, who started working with various mediums to create avant-garde assemblages around 1910, the term collage comes from the French word coller or glue. This inventive and innovative approach attracted artists due to its one-of-a-kind aesthetic and unique, pieced-together processes. Collages can be created from various materials, though most are paper or wood, often featuring cut-and-pasted photographs, painted forms, or even 3-dimensional objects. An essential characteristic of collage is that it doesn’t require formal art education. It can be mastered by anyone – through play and instinct and acting from their inner necessity.