Let's Make a Statement About Creativity and Education! Let's Make Some Art!

The world of Creative Visual Art has a long history of the creation of important works that are rely on the use of text as part of the visual message the work conveys.  One good example of an artist who worked this way is Stuart Davis (1892–1964). There are many others (see some well known examples below).

Text Based Art can take the form of an image that is composed of all text or partial text or text that enhances what is essentially mostly non-text, but in which the text plays a very important part in the impact of the work’s message and power to communicate it.

* for more on this approach to creative, visual art, see the article:
8 Artists Who Harness the Power of Words in Art

"Language is a powerful tool. And no one understands that better than artists who thoughtfully utilize text to make a statement and draw out emotion. By using text as the central communication vehicle in their artistic expression, these artists push forth letters, numbers, and words as their primary means to get out their message..." (read the full article at its source: https://mymodernmet.com/text-art-masters/

We, at UPAL summer 2018,  will create some Text Based Works of Art. We will use a mixed medium, assemblage approach (a mixture of drawing, applied color, collage elements 

As a final destination for our works, we will take digital photos of the works and upload these, along with our explanations of the works and reflections on what we discovered through creating them, to a dedicated post on this blog.