Teaching Visual Literacy Principles Through Identity Collage Workshop (Faculty180)

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  • Pryor, Ashley E

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  • Collage (analog and digital) is a wonderfully democratic and accessible medium of artistic expression requiring minimal materials and expense. Since its inception as a recognized art practice, collage has been used to create highly personal commentaries on the individual’s place within society (Höch), and as a vehicle for broadening discussions of social justice and inclusivity (Bearden). Collage is a medium that is conducive to demonstrating basic elements of effective design (the law of thirds, the golden ratio, etc.) and to practice many knowledge forms and dispositions outlined in the proposed “Framework for Visual Literacy in Higher Education” to enable learners to: ● Appreciate that creativity and inquiry can be inspired through browsing and experiencing serendipitous encounters with both digital and analog visuals. ● Explore choices made in the production of visual communications to construct meaning or influence interpretation, especially about representations of gender, ethnicity, race, and other cultural or social identifiers. ● Recognize that a visual’s communicative intent and purpose can be changed through modification, repurposing, remixing or reformatting. ● Reflect on the role of personally-created visuals as meaningful contributions to research, learning, and communication. ● Value how different ways of knowing and being, including cultural, traditional, and indigenous knowledge may be represented in visuals. ● Investigate personal positionality, acknowledging how an individual’s background, experiences, values, world views, biases, etc., can and do shape the reading of, interaction with, and research around visuals. ● Consider if the creation and/or use of visuals will constitute misappropriation, which dissociates visuals from their original contexts and deprives individual creators and cultural communities of agency and credit ● Reflect on the dual role that visuals may play in either fostering or subverting harmful, restrictive, social, or cultural norms. ● Explore choices made in the production of visual communications to construct meaning or influence interpretation, especially with regard to representations of gender, ethnicity, race, and other cultural or social identifiers. ● Investigate personal positionality, acknowledging how an individual’s background, experience, values, worldviews, biases, etc., can and do shape the reading of, interaction with, and research around visuals.

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  • 2022

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