Finding New Life: Collage Art with Vintage Magazines
Adult Course | Registration opens 2/4/2025 7:00 AM MST
In this one day, 3-hour workshop, we will explore the art of collage while using found images from vintage LIFE and National Geographic magazines. Using provided collage making materials, students will be challenged to create an original collage or mixed media piece while incorporating deconstructed found images. A demo on glue methods and collage art making methods will be shown and discussed. Students will be given a guided prompt to work with at the start of the class. Using the provided collage making materials and vintage magazines images, students will discover new designs, compositions or even stories. Folders will be provided if students wish to work further on it at home. The workshop is meant to evoke bold imagination all while having fun!
Open to all abilities.
- Can bring their own found images & old magazines if wish, but not required
Robin Whatley
www.robinwhatley.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is a reflection and reinterpretation of pop culture from the 50's, 60's, and 70's combined with a reimagined culture of today. For my mixed media paintings, I integrate magazine cut-outs with water-based paints to create 'other worldly' landscapes. For my collage series, I combine vintage magazine cut-outs on paper to create surreal, dreamy vignettes. These works are meant to reveal a deeper underlying psychological theme, feeling, or political statement that transcends time.
ARTIST BIO
As a Denver based artist with a background in arts administration, Robin has worked for the last 18 years as a freelance professional artist. After receiving a BFA with a concentration in painting from Colorado State University, she relocated to Denver in 2003 to further grow her art career. Robin’s work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions around the US including Arizona, California, Colorado, Rhode Island, Florida and Washington. Today, Robin continues to push her artistic boundaries and explore new creative processes from her at home studio in Denver.