Collage Into Painting (5 session)
Adult Class | Registration opens Monday, July 6, 2026 8:00 AM EDT
This class uses collage as an expansive tool for creating abstraction, pattern, and complex compositions for paintings. Loosen up your creative practice and get ready to embrace process and experimentation in the class. As we switch back and forth between painting and collage, we will work with materials such as found paper, magazines, personal ephemera, and non toxic and water based paints. Classes will include demos, art historical context, and feedback from the instructor and fellow students.
What You Will Learn:
- Become familiar with new materials and explore ways of combining them through experimentation
- Develop a small series of artworks
- Explore working from a place of intuition and imagination
- Learn from classmates by observing their work and through group conversations
- Experience art-making with simple materials and without any art background required
- Learn about the Art Historical as well as contemporary context for collage
- X-acto knife or scissors
- Rubber cement and/or matte medium
- Heavyweight mixed media paper (at least 10 sheets)
- Pencil (HB or 2B)
- Any water based/ non toxic paints: acrylic, inks, or watercolor (suggested colors: yellow, blue, red, black, and white)
- A variety of paintbrushes of different sizes
- Collage materials (magazines, newspapers, printed images, old books, personal photographs, ephemera)
Optional
- Cutting mat if using x-acto knife
- A small personal sketchbook that can be easily carried
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Alicia Link
Alicia Link is a multidisciplinary visual artist, educator, and arts writer whose work interrogates systems that restrict and limit our agency and understanding of our bodies. Rooted in both object-making, painting, and performance strategies, her practice privileges material experimentation and process as a means of engaging with embodied memory, labor, and the politics of value—both personal and cultural.
She holds a BFA in Painting from Boston University and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. Link has participated in residencies at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Philadelphia, PA, and Vermont Studio Center, where she was a residency fellowship recipient. She has exhibited at galleries and arts centers across the US, including Space Heater Gallery, Brooklyn; Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH; the Visual Arts Center in Austin, TX; and AUTOMAT, Philadelphia. She currently teaches at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and Fleisher Art Memorial. She views the classroom as a radical space for exchanging and investing in ideas while encouraging critical conversations about how art connects to broader political concerns.