Question 01
Artist–Educator Growth
How does working on 4×4-inch cardstock inform growth as both an artist and an art educator?
Research · Art · Creativity
Easy Collage Art
Where creative exploration meets graduate-level research.
Based on Responding to Creativity Through Mixed Media: An Arts-Based Exploration.
10Weeks of inquiry
256Small collages created
10Material explorations
3Major findings
The Research
Creative inquiry through making, reflection, and material experimentation.
This arts-based research project examined how a sustained mixed-media collage practice could deepen artistic growth, self-expression, cultural connection, and classroom practice.
Question 02
Personal Narrative
How can small mixed-media collages expand an understanding of self-expression?
Question 03
Everyday Materials
What knowledge emerges when familiar household objects become collage materials?
Featured Concept Study
The spiral as a symbol of expanding creative knowledge.
The two spiral images function as visual studies for what can happen when individual experiments are reorganized into a larger composition. They support the site’s visual identity while the original collage series remain the primary research artifacts.
Material Explorations
Ten bodies of work, each built from a different material encounter.
These series trace the project’s movement from familiar art media toward found objects, cultural memory, technology, and tactile experimentation.
Major Findings
What the process revealed.
Finding 01
Play + Organization
The strongest creative growth occurred where intuitive freedom met deliberate structure.
Finding 02
Culture + Memory
Beans, cotton, maps, clay, and electronics became portals to childhood, Mississippi, and personal identity.
Finding 03
Failure + Discovery
Perceived mistakes became productive pathways toward symbolism, reflection, and new creative possibilities.
Reflective Practice
Creativity rarely emerges all at once. It grows through repetition, reflection, experimentation, and discovery.
Artist · Educator · Researcher
Keir Davis
Keir Davis is a Mississippi-based visual artist and art educator whose practice centers abstraction, mixed media, experimentation, reflection, and the relationship between personal studio practice and teaching.
His graduate research at the University of Florida explored how familiar materials, memory, play, and failure can shape both artistic identity and classroom practice.
Research Identity
Serious scholarship presented through an accessible digital exhibition.
Easy Collage Art is designed to remain visually compelling without sacrificing academic clarity, accurate attribution, or navigational simplicity.
Official Capstone Record
Responding to Creativity Through Mixed Media: An Arts-Based Exploration
Keir Davis · Master of Arts in Art Education · University of Florida · December 2025