The Pumpkins are learning about Romare Bearden, a collage artist that worked during the Harlem Renaissance. Bearden made collage artwork about his neighborhood and the people he encountered in his everyday life. Inspired by Bearden’s work, the Pumpkins experimented with different collage techniques. They used the iPads to take photographs of each other, which were used in mixed media portraiture artworks with paint and decorative papers. The Pumpkins are learning about the many different ways that they can cut, tear, fold, compose and manipulate paper and photographs.