Paper Collage Making
The Shiny Shop invites you to be seen, be safe, and be shiny through a series of free drop-in art making and repair workshops.
Paper Collage Making
Hosted by Alex Makes Art (AMA) + Commuter Pop-Up
🕙 Public Hours: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
🚲 Commuter Pop-Up: 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
🪩 Drop-In Style. Come by anytime during public hours!
Dive into the colorful, layered world of collage through this playful drop-in making experience centered around storytelling, experimentation, and visual exploration. Participants are invited to cut, arrange, layer, and piece together imagery using magazines, found paper, textures, and unexpected materials to create compositions that feel personal, expressive, surreal, or entirely abstract.
Whether you’re building tiny dream worlds, visual poems, commuter-inspired scenes, memory maps, or bold graphic compositions, this activation celebrates the beauty of remixing everyday materials into something entirely new.
Collage-making at The Shiny Shop encourages intuition, curiosity, and joyful imperfection, allowing participants to follow color, shape, texture, and imagery wherever inspiration leads.
✨ Materials include:
• Magazines & found imagery
• Colorful paper scraps & textures
• Scissors & cutting tools
• Glue sticks & Mod Podge
• Paper, boards & collage bases
Perfect for all ages and artistic comfort levels. Stay for a few quick cuts and layers or settle in to build a richly detailed visual world of your own.
📍 Arrival Notes: Guests may enter through the front lobby doors and will find The Shiny Shop just inside the first door past the lobby. You’re also welcome to knock on our windows from the outside of the shop if you need help finding us — we’re happy to wave you in.
🎟️ Free to attend, though registration is encouraged to help us prepare materials and keep the magic flowing. Learn more and explore additional happenings through The Shiny Shop via Alex Makes Art
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Highlights
- 5 hours 30 minutes
- In person
Location
The Shiny Shop
114 Western Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
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