Collage Me, Baby!: Experimenting with Collage and Serigraphy
September 27 @ 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
$522.00A 4-Week In-Studio Workshop!
Saturdays, September 27, October 4, 11, and 18, 10:30am-4:30pm
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About this Workshop:
Collage Me, Baby! is a 4-day workshop that combines screenprinting and collage. Participants will immerse themselves in the colorful world of collage, unlocking their creative intuition through cutting, arranging, and pasting visual elements onto paper. Next, they’ll explore the structural side of screen printing, transforming their collages into one-of-a-kind prints. It’s a visual journey that brings these two processes together uniquely and expressively.
- Day 1: Overview, screen preparations, and initial design development
- Day 2: Screen work continues and collage work begins
- Day 3: Experiment with combining screenprinting and collage to develop multi-layered designs
- Day 4: Experiments are completed, print signing, and show and tell
Level: Intermediate—Introduction to Screenprinting or similar experience with screenprinting techniques, including screen exposure (6 hrs) is required.
Registration closes September 19, 2025. Material fees are included with your registration to cover the supplies provided in class. Students may/will need to gather/purchase additional materials for class (see the materials list below). This list will also be provided with the registration confirmation email.
Sample image by Jeanette Bolden
CLASS MATERIALS LIST:
Registration includes a $38 materials fee to cover consumable materials provided in class, including screenprinting inks and screens, transparencies, adhesives, and a variety of extra collage materials. Students will need to supply additional materials of their own, including:
- 1 pad of 11”x14” printmaking paper or cotton rag paper, at least 15 sheets
- At least one jar of screenprinting ink, color of your choosing. We’ll have some standard colors in-studio for class use. Consider a large jar if you like to print bigger graphic shapes.
- A collection of paper scraps, magazines, or whatever you have you want to experiment collaging with from your personal stash.
- 1 pad of Dura-lar Acetate, 11×14”
- 1 black Sharpie
- Black Acrylic Paint Markers – at least one fine and one broad tip is recommended, or consider a dual tip marker
- (optional) Personal apron (we’ll have extras) or wear clothes that can get inky
- (optional) Personal silkscreen, at least 20”x24”, 200 mesh if you want to keep your design(s) after the workshop. We’ll have plenty of screens on hand for use during class time.
- (optional) Notebook/sketchbook if you’d like to take notes, work out samples, etc.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Jeanette M. Bolden is a visual artist and printmaker based in Mount Rainier, Maryland. As a student, Bolden received The Washington Print Club’s 2021 Young Printer Award and was featured in the fall 2021 issue of On Paper: Journal of The Washington Print Club. In the summer of 2022, Bolden interned at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and co-taught the Hispanic Heritage Month Internship Program. Toward the end of her academic program at the University of Maryland, she participated in the Honor Thesis and Senior Exhibition. Having graduated with a B.A. in studio arts as an honor student,she participated in the Exercises for Emerging Artists program by Transformer Gallery in 2023. Recently, she joined the VisArt Emerging Teaching Artist program. Follow her work on Instagram at @colorfulnette.