Beyond the Photograph: Transfers & Collage 1F26
Explore the boundaries between photography, drawing, printmaking, and collage in this experimental mixed media workshop focused on non-traditional uses of photographic imagery.
Learn a range of image transfer techniques—including solvent, acrylic gel medium, and adhesive transfers—and incorporate them into layered collage compositions. Through demonstrations and creative exercises, students will experiment with surface treatments, texture, layering, and image manipulation to transform photographs from representational to abstract works.
The day will begin with an introduction to essential tools, materials, and transfer methods before moving into hands-on projects and artistic “stretch exercises” designed to spark creativity and new ways of seeing imagery.
Bring favorite photographs, Xerox copies, magazine images, or other printed materials to work from. The instructor will also provide a large collection of vintage books, maps, sheet music, magazines, photographs, and ephemera to supplement your work. Guidance will also be provided on image selection, photo labs, and strategies for getting the most out of a copy shop visit.
Open to all media and skill levels. Please bring drinks, snacks, and lunch. A $40 materials fee is payable to the instructor in class.
Cristina Hajosy
Cristina Hajosy is a mixed media artist, art educator and designer based in Greater Boston. She is the owner of Hajosy Arts (hajosyarts.com), an art studio of photography, printmaking, book arts, and historical decorative arts, especially paper marbling and paste paper. She is the co-founder and past president of New England Book Artists (newenglandbookartists.org), a book arts organization that has quickly grown since 2019. Her work strives to foster understanding and personal growth through book arts via art education and the creation of beautifully challenging and personally satisfying art.
Cristina was born in Rome, Georgia to parents who were doctors. She grew up on a cattle farm with a large catfish fishery, family garden, pecan orchards, and horses alongside private school, art classes, music lessons, and country club activities. According to Cristina,
“My story is a modern-day Green Acres complete with Hungarian heritage and an amusing clash between high and low cultures. "
Her passion for Marbling began with paper, specifically to be used in the context of bookbinding. It swiftly moved to fabrics, textiles and wood. She finds marbled patterns can be conceptualized into mixed media contexts in unique ways. Often feminist, body-related, and occasionally narrative, her marbled artworks take this traditional craft into a contemporary, often turbulent place.
"Historical processes like marbling and the book arts were mainly shared within the master/apprentice relationship, a fairly secretive and male-dominated world. As a feminist, conceptual artist, it gives me great pleasure to lift the veil and fully share the knowledge.”
The student pays a $40 materials fee directly to the instructor in class. The instructor procures and provides all materials and technique handouts.