San Francisco Center for the Book

This is a three session online workshop meeting on Tuesdays, March 3, 10 and 17.

A visual notebook of ideas and experiments can be an invaluable resource for all artists, visual and otherwise. Even writers can find inspiration and source material in visual images, collected in one spot for easy reference. This workshop will focus on using collage as a quick and fun way to generate ideas, make visual notes, and generally enhance creative practice.

Over the course of three class meetings, students will receive an introduction to the basics of collage, then develop and test compositions and colors, play with mixed media methods, and explore layering. The class will emphasize play and experimentation as well as more focused topics such as how to solve compositional problems. Ideally, it will instill a habit or practice that students can continue in the new year and beyond.

Sessions will include the opportunity for class discussion and work sharing, as well as group troubleshooting.

Open to all levels of experience; there will be exercises to challenge even lifelong artists.

Online workshops are recorded; video links will be emailed to registered students after each session, and recordings will be available for eight weeks after the final class meeting.

Prerequisite:
None

Materials to bring:

• a blank spiral bound notebook
• various papers (colored, magazine, old books, decorative, gift wrap, etc.)
• clear packing tape for tape transfers
• waxed paper
• glue stick
• x-acto knife and scissors
• drawing supplies: pens, pencils, etc.
• tracing paper
• burnishing tool: bone or teflon folder, or a spoon

About the Instructor:
Hope Amico (they/them) is a visual artist, writer and educator who believes we could all use a creative practice. Through classes, collage meetups and the Keep Writing postcard project, they are excited to share ways we can work together and support each other creatively. Co-founder of the New Orleans Collage Collective and previously known as gutwrench press, they relocated to Portland, OR in 2020. They teach online and in-person through the MCBA, SFCB and privately through their own studio.