Romare Bearden: Collage Portraits

• Romare Bearden created multimedia collages. His work often reflected his experiences growing up surrounded by artists and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance.
• Students took photographs of themselves with the iPads and edited them digitally. The pictures were converted to black and white and students adjusted brightness, contrast and grain to their liking. The pictures were then printed and cut up into individual features.
• Students assembled faces from the bits and pieces of all the kindergarten photos. They had to be placed according to the rules governing facial proportion. For instance, the eyes should be halfway between the top of the head and the chin.