Mixed media art combines two or more mediums into one piece of visual art. We offer classes and workshops in mixed media art that allow you to explore techniques and materials to create something unique and compelling. Encaustics (painting with hot waxes) can feature embedded elements, endless textures and overlays of paint. Bookmaking and collage allow you to combine various materials on paper into a singular expression of your creativity.
Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface. Collage can be incorporated into constructing art journals and used in painting techniques.
We offer classes and workshops in paper making, Suminagashi (marbling), and paste paper. Learn to make special handmade papers to include in your art making journey. Also explore ways to use beautiful handmade or store bought paper in book arts and card making workshops.
Learn to design and create artists’ books using various bookbinding techniques. We offer classes and workshops for all skill levels in basic bookmaking from fun non-stitch styles to more advanced stitched books employing various constructions.
Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated encaustic wax medium to which colored pigments have been added for creating artworks. Molten medium is applied to a surface – usually prepared wood – and collage materials can be introduced into the layers. It is both an additive and reductive process inviting scraping and mark making, and full of surprises as the heat interacts with the wax.