Discover the creative, expressive art of collage.
Highly accomplished artists lead these fascinating classes where you will create unique works of art. Using a wide range of unique and interesting materials, you’ll incorporate texture, color, shape, pattern into unique works of art. You will explore composition, looking at balance, shapes and experimenting with different ways to lead the viewer’s eye across a page. You’ll learn how to see interesting visuals in everyday life, using found materials, photographs, type, textiles and more. Whether you’re an experienced artist or an absolute beginner, college can give you a completely new outlook on your own creativity. Come and have fun!
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Erin McGill was born and raised in New York. She received a BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute, where she discovered her love for patterns and textures. Since 2004 she has had a small craft business creating wearable art, toys, cards and decorative whimsical art based on her drawings. She is the author and illustrator of picture books including: I Do Not Like Al’s Hat, Matchy Matchy, If You Want A Friend In Washington and others. Since 2019 she has been teaching both children and adults various arts and crafts classes. In her free time she enjoys garde ...
Erin McGill was born and raised in New York. She received a BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute, where she discovered her love for patterns and textures. Since 2004 she has had a small craft business creating wearable art, toys, cards and decorative whimsical art based on her drawings. She is the author and illustrator of picture books including: I Do Not Like Al’s Hat, Matchy Matchy, If You Want A Friend In Washington and others. Since 2019 she has been teaching both children and adults various arts and crafts classes. In her free time she enjoys gardening, polar history, historical cooking and baking, swimming and travel.
Artist Talk with Erin McGill: Making a Picture Book: From Idea to Illustration
Colored Pencils for Beginners
Creating a Personal Sketchbook
Collage and Mixed Media for Absolute Beginners
Collage and Mixed Media (Intermediate)
Sketchbook Techniques: Collage with Found Materials
Creative Crafts
Drawing and Painting
DIY Printmaking: Valentine’s Day Cards
Collage Still Life: Layering Techniques
DIY Weaving: Creating Recycled Wall Hangings
Chelsey Pettyjohn is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in paint, sculpture, and collage. Her work engages a specific collection of self-made archetypes and iconography. Themes reveal personal history: childhood fantasies, fragmented dreams, the secrecy of inner worlds. She is interested in the juxtaposition of delicate and grotesque; articulating the human experience in all its innocence and brutality.
She holds a BFA from Parsons the New School for Design, and a BA from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. She has shown her work locally and internationally; exhibitions ...
She holds a BFA from Parsons the New School for Design, and a BA from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. She has shown her work locally and internationally; exhibitions include solo shows at Hunter College and Tennis Elbow, as well as group shows at Kapp Kapp, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Foxy Production. She lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Artist Talk with Chelsey Pettyjohn: Play and Experimentation in Artmaking
Sculpture and Pottery
The Art of Tarot: Drawing and Painting Magic
California Bay Area artist Erin McCluskey Wheeler is known for her bright tropical-colored works that employ a meticulous assemblage of found papers often bound together with looping brushstrokes. With both an abstract and graphic style, Wheeler's works are sometimes symbolic or whimsical, and play with ideas of nostalgia and visual memories in a narrative context. Erin both sources found materials and creates her own painted paper collage material to create densely layered paintings full of light and space.
Wheeler has a BA in studio art, and a BA in art history from Beloit C ...
Wheeler has a BA in studio art, and a BA in art history from Beloit College, and an MFA in writing from California College of the Arts. Her paintings have been licensed through West Elm and she has won multiple awards on Minted. She is the 2018-2019 Artist in Residence at the El Cerrito Recycling Center. Erin teaches art classes and workshops nationally and throughout the Bay Area. Find out more about her work through her website at erinmwheeler.com or follow her on Instagram @erinmwheeler.
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