Speed Collage en Manége avec la Salière Surréaliste

How fast can you collage? This informal add-and-pass workshop will expand your collage repertoire while challenging you to work quickly, and you’ll leave the experience with a collaborative artist book to keep.

Participants will sit around a table to allow for circular passing of work, and techniques for timed collage will be chosen at random using a Surrealist Salt Cellar, better known as a Fortune Teller or Cootie Catcher. Example techniques are: standing to let torn paper fall to the floor to create a composition à la Hans Arp; froissage, developed by Czech artist Ladislav Novák in which the contours of a crumpled piece of paper are used to create a drawing made (see also work by Jiří Kolář); frottage, developed by Max Ernst as pencil rubbings to reveal textures beneath a paper; rollage, rearranging strips of cut images (see Jiří Kolář and contemporary artist Kensuke Koike); cubomania, invented by Romanian surrealist Gherasim Luca, cutting an image into squares and reassembling at random.

Supplies are provided, however you are welcome to bring your favorite collage tools!

About Ticketing

Collage-O-Rama workshops are offered at flexible ticket prices from $5 up to the maximum suggested donation.

3 free, no-questions-asked reservations are available for each session as well.

Advance ticketing helps us plan capacity and ensure enough supplies are available.

About your instructor, Cheryl Chudyk:

Cheryl Chudyk has a background in wedding photography, ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance. She dabbles in portraits, poetry, painting, and comics. She is the president of The Northwest Collage Society and a cofounder and co-curator of sharphandsgallery.com. She is hoping someone will organize a collage cruise from Seattle to Alaska in the near to distant future.

About Collage-O-Rama

This workshop is part of Collage-O-Rama, a month-long celebration of collage presented by Special Agent Collage Collective. Festivities include an exhibition of 1000+ pieces of collage art, workshops from PNW-based artists, and free drop-in opportunities for art-making. Check out our other events and tell your friends!

Limited Edition prints and Field Work Folio collage kits are available for pre-order as well via the Special Agent Collage Collective website. Order now and pick up at your workshop.

Getting there / Parking
Paid street parking. There are also paid lots within a 3-minute walk to the venue. There is one disabled parking spot in front of the venue.

The nearest bust stop is Number 250 at 2nd Ave & Bell, served by bus routes 111, 113, 162, 177, and 212.

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