Come play with design and humor as you learn techniques to create layered collage.

What is collage? Making Collages is the arranging and adhering  of diverse materials—such as magazine clippings, fabric, photographs, and found objects—onto a surface to create a new, cohesive composition. It allows for creative experimentation, layering textures and images to convey complex, often surreal ideas. 

Teaching artist Joan Kauppi (Red Lake) shares her insights “ I have experimented in many art forms and while I loved those, they didn’t keep my attention or I didn't feel like I belonged to them. Collage is different for me. I can be a storyteller by creating a single piece. Once images are merged and transformed the stories change, sometimes into absurdity. I love to combine images from different decades, eras, sizes, media type, mediums and old, worn out paper.  It's a participatory art form whether one is the artist or the viewer by creating ideas, messages or stories that vary by imaginations.”

Saturday, April 25th  with Joan Kauppi
10 to 3pm at Gizhiigin Arts Incubator, 701 East Jefferson, Mahnomen, MN
Free arts supplies, Lunch provided.   Sign up ASAP with ( 15 spots open)