Our #WestphalMakes webinar series is aimed to help current high school students and instructors learn portfolio building projects from home. These free online one-hour webinars taught by our award-winning faculty experts at Westphal College of Media Arts and Design range from portfolio specific guidance to easy projects for students to do at home. All webinars are open to the public and interested parties must pre-register for each webinar using the links below. Students and instructors can register for multiple webinars.

Registrants will receive more detailed information regarding the webinar including a worksheet emailed to them the day of the event. If you have any questions, please email westphaladm@drexel.edu.

Exploring Montage with Professor Mark Willie

Instructor: Mark Willie, Associate Program Director and Teaching Professor, Graphic Design

Montage is a complex expression of metaphor or storytelling that can be created by piecing together different elements into a single image. Artists use disparate and often jarring juxtapositions of images (and words) to present interpretations of concepts, ideas and (sometimes surreal) views of the world that can be challenging and revelatory.

Examples of exercises in visual language to be explored through various aspects of montage will be presented: found and repurposed imagery, object, drawing and original photography using techniques both analog and digital, cutting and pasting, layering and manipulation. We welcome both students and teachers to join this webinar.

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