Assemblage Art Workshop
Posted April 8, 2015 at 10:38 am by Tim Dustrude
Just a reminder – the deadline to sign up for this workshop is Saturday…
Jan Murphy Assemblage Art Workshop April 18 at IMA
Deadline to register Saturday, April 11!
Bring your Artistic Muse and Your Imagination
Join mixed media artist Jan Murphy for a fun-filled afternoon of exploration into the wild and wacky world of assemblage art. Explore techniques and methods for creating one-of-a-kind artwork using your treasured “junk”, found objects and thrift store items.
About Jan
Jan Murphy is a mixed media assemblage artist who likes to say she is “an expert in gluing things to other things.” She is primarily self taught, but has studied under many other mixed media artists over the last 15 years as well as at the Fallbrook School of Art in California. Her passion is in finding art in incongruent and every day objects. Read more on her web page: wildatheartstudios.com
About the Workshop
Grab your creative muse and all those great odds and ends you’ve been saving and join Jan for a fun filled workshop exploring the endless possibilities of assemblage art. We’ll start with a substrate (either a board, wooden box, plaque or a base of some kind, and then move on to surface preparation, composition and structure. Jan will demonstrate many fun techniques to add interest, color and intrigue to your piece. You’ll take home a fabulous piece of artwork and the skills to make many more!
Students should bring to class:
- paper ephemera
- photos from old books or magazines
- old book pages
- rusty findings
- wire mesh
- small picture frames
- fabric scraps
- old costume jewelry bits
- small odds and ends
Instructor will provide glue, paint, paper clay, collage materials, tools and paint brushes. This workshop will also feature a “Rummage Sale” of found objects available for purchase.
Workshop fee: $95
Materials fee: $20
Register by April 11
sjima.org
(360) 370-5050
San Juan Islands Museum of Art
540 Spring Street
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