Collage Into Painting (5 Sessions)
Adult Class | Available
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
Who This Class Is For:
All levels. Questions about whether this class is right for you? Email adulteducation@fleisher.org.
- 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 and educator whose work interrogates systems that restrict and limit our agency and understanding of our bodies. Working across object-making, painting, and performance, 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.
Link holds a BFA in Painting from Boston University and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. She has participated in residencies at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Officina Stamperia del Notaio (Tusa, Sicily). She’s exhibited nationally at venues including Space Heater Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Roy G Biv Gallery (Columbus, OH), the Visual Arts Center (Austin, TX), and AUTOMAT (Philadelphia, PA). She currently teaches at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and at Fleisher Art Memorial, and is a member of the collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid.