To teach Photoshop, we start with the same photos of the building block setup that the students used to create their drawing variations. I ask them to choose two from these photos to begin.

I post a series of screen recorded videos that I created using the LOOM app or the mac QUICK TIME PLAYER app that comes with the OS. Each video demonstrates different tools in Photoshop that they will need to create the two photomontage panels of their invented CITY DREAMS.

When the required Freshman course called Drawing/Imaging was conceived almost 10 years ago, bridging digital and analog media became an important goal of our new assignments. The idea for this sequence came to me on a long flight to Colorado, a 6 hour stretch of quiet time

I have clear memories of discovering collage as a 16 year old student in RISD’s summer pre-college art program. Seaver Leslie and Dennis Congdon were my teachers, and I became a hoarder of paper scraps and ephemera for several years after. Looking back, it was