Collage and Mixed Media

Adult Class | This program has been canceled

All levels welcome, recommended for beginners.

1/7/2020-3/10/2020

6:30 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Tue

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$285.00

$255.00

$15.00

Do you feel stuck and ready to explore? Collage and mixed media can often be a catalyst for change in your work, and a refreshing way to handle familiar media. Students from all art backgrounds and experience are welcome in this workshop that explores a range of materials with which to take chances and perhaps change direction. We will work with different papers, your own discarded art, as well as any water-based media. Students will work towards developing subject matter to create a sense of continuity in a larger body of work.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE
1. Become familiar with new materials and explore ways of combining them through experimentation
2. Develop a small series of artworks based on a theme
3. Explore working from your imagination, not relying on observation
4. Learn from classmates by observing their work and through group conversations
5. Experience art-making with simple materials and without any art background required.

  • Many supplies are included, however, you may wish to purchase additional supplies.
  • • Scissors
  • • Elmer’s glue
  • • Interesting, or decorative papers to share
  • • Midway into term you may want to bring in your own discarded art

Michelle Oosterbaan is a visual artist based in Philadelphia. Recently she held several residencies across Northern Europe including the Cite des Arts International in Paris. Oosterbaan’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues that include The Drawing Center New York, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, The Delaware Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka. She is a Great Rivers Biennial winner (2008 St. Louis, MO) and published in FUKT, A Drawing Journal (2009, Berlin). She has also has received grants from Center for Emerging Arts (2014), the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (2004), and the Leeway Foundation (2001) among others. Oosterbaan was awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony (2004) and Yaddo (2005, 2003), as a John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur fellow, in addition to invitations to VCCA, (2009, 2006). Her work investigates signs and symbols of time and spirit and the theatre of space and color. She earned a BFA from Washington University as a Fred Conway Scholar in painting / printmaking and an MFA from Indiana University and studied painting at SACI at Cleveland Institute of Art in Florence Italy. Last summer, she collaborated with The Mural Arts Program to design and install a site-specific color-based mural in Germantown titled Kalpavriksha: The Tree of Life. She is returning to Philadelphia after teaching painting and drawing at Bowdoin College and Bucknell University as a visiting professor. This spring she is teaching a drawing course Natural Forms and the Human Body in the University of the Arts Undergraduate CORE Program.