Caroline Perkison is a multidisciplinary artist based in Cleveland, Ohio, originally from Houston, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in Studio Art and has received an MFA in Painting from Kent State University. She is currently an adjunct instructor at Kent State University. Her work centers around the domestic spaces and how we decorate and customize them. She illustrates this with a playful sincerity through textiles, paintings, and sculpture, incorporating bright patterning, textures, and whimsical forms in her work.
As an Arts Educator, she is dedicated creating a learning environment that is constructive, encouraging and holistic. She believes art is a vehicle for makers to communicate, reflect, and express themselves.
During the Collaging an Animal Cell workshop, participants will experiment with working with mixed media materials to creatively illustrate an animal cell. Students will have the opportunity to deeply explore Learning Standard (7.2PE Explore materials to design and create works of art) through choosing their own fabrics, magazine scraps, yarn, and cutting, gluing and collaging with them to create a unique piece with each collaged element representing a part of the Animal Cell. Through working with these different materials, students will practice using fine motor skills and strengthen their understanding in working with different materials. Students will also explore learning standard (6.LS.3: Cells carry on specific functions that sustain life) through basing their collages of a diagram of the Animal Cell which is provided. They will choose each collaged element to represent the different parts of the cell. Through visualizing each of the cell parts and then translating that to collage, students will be more familiar with both the vocabulary of the cell as well as the visual components. This program is best suited for grades 5-8.
Program Artist:
Caroline Perkison