Foundations of Collage 1F26
Age Group:
Adults
In this one-day workshop, students will learn the fundamentals of collage, including papers, adhesives, substrates, and approaches to layering and image-building. The class will begin with a brief look at the history and variety of collage practices before exploring key principles of composition and common visual structures.
The majority of the workshop will focus on creating a series of small experimental collages designed to encourage play, exploration, and creative discovery. Through these exercises, students will experiment with different styles and approaches to collage while developing a stronger sense of the kinds of collage they most enjoy making.
Students are welcome to bring gelli prints, painted papers, magazine images, or other collage materials from previous workshops or personal projects to incorporate into their work. See list of materials to bring.
Make up date: 12/13/26
Diane Franklin
Diane Franklin is an artist, teacher and writer living and working in Jamaica Plain. She makes large wall pieces from fabric and/or paper, using a variety of surface design techniques. Starting with white fabric or paper, she uses shibori dyeing, screen printing, painting,rusting, gelli printing , etc. to transform the surface of her materials. She then combines these materials into abstract compositions. Diane has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and has won awards for several of her pieces. For the past few years, Diane has also made a number of artist books and collages, using her own photographs or printed papers. Diane has also written articles about fiber related topics for Fiber Art Now and Fibre Arts Take Two. She is also the author of Dyeing Alchemy, a primer and workbook about Procion dyeing.
Her fiber pieces can be seen on her website, www.dianefranklinart.com, and many of her books and collages can be viewed on her Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/diane.franklin/
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Materials to bring to class:
You will need to bring:
- Many different kinds of papers you have at home: gelliprints or painted papers, if you have them; envelopes with interesting patterns on their insides (there are often included with bills); old book pages; children’s paintings; junk mail with interesting images or words; vintage paper such as old ads, images, bills, ledgers (if you don’t have any of these, do an internet search for vintage ephemera and then print some of these images); scans of old photographs, wrapping paper, patterned napkins, discarded documents, etc. The sky is the limit here. Bring what you have, and we will share.
- A 40-gram Uhu glue stick (This is essential, so please don't forget this.)
- Some magazines. We will use both images from magazines and the colored parts of pages that contain no images. If you have different kinds of magazines at home, bring several different ones.
- If you like working in a sketchbook, you can bring a small or medium-sized sketchbook in which to work. Otherwise, we will provide paper substrates for your collages.
- An apron or smock to protect your clothes.
Also, please bring lunch, snacks and water.
If you have questions about materials to bring, please email the instructor for guidance: