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  • Mixed Media

Our homes, public spaces and nature are full of amazing objects and surfaces which can form the basis for beautiful and intriguing mixed media art works. Photos, memorabilia, old newspapers, leaves and bark, magazines, music scores, maps, wrappers, discarded household items and more are a treasure trove of source material. In this class you are encouraged to recycle and re-use, bringing new life to old objects as you create meaningful and personal pieces of art. 


Spring 2021: 6 Weeks: Tuition: $295 + Materials Fee: $10 = Total: $305


PLEASE NOTE: Due to COVID 19, special policies and regulations will apply. Students must be in agreement with these health and safety regulations and TSA's policies in order to enrol.

Notes: Jacqueline Treloar, an English-born artist and educator, has been teaching at the Toronto School of Art since 2006. Before moving to Canada, she spent twelve years running a textile design studio in Northern Italy. Treloar’s work has won her several accolades over the years, including the Ontario Premier’s Award of Excellence, and her work has been featured in numerous periodicals, journals and books, such as Fibrearts, Surfacing, Ontario Craft, Azure and Toronto Life. Since coming to Canada in 1984, Treloar has presented her work in exhibitions at the Ontario Crafts Council, the John B. Aird Gallery, the Homer Watson Gallery, the Museum for Textiles, the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Library and Gallery in Cambridge, among other institutions.
* This course is not currently open for registration

What you will learn

  • Understanding how valuable mixed media is to use recycled and found items to create fascinating and unique pieces of work  
  • Looking at and using a wide variety of mediums, textures and surfaces to create personal projects 
  • Using light sensitive papers to create unique photo images of objects 
  • Discussions of fascinating examples of important movements using the found object: from 16th century private cabinets of curiosities to 1900's Art Povera movement

Materials to Bring

Please keep your receipts in case you need to return materials.

  • Matte gel medium which we use as glue and for sealing 
  • Sponges for applying paints and glues and for texture 
  • Brushes: a selection of nylon brushes (i.e. angled or flat), three different sizes
  • Small, medium, large surfaces - different mixed media papers - 90 lb weight for the standard white mixed media paper 
  • Wrapping tissues etc. 
  • Plain ungessoed canvas - small rolls 
  • Gesso - texture medium 
  • Dipping pens and india ink
  • Fluid acrylic paints and acrylic inks
  • Droppers 
  • Sharp cutting knife 
  • Rags or paper towels for clean up 

We will have wax, twine and a selection of other assorted items - you may have your favourites.