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Collage Workshop


  • Hershey Area Art Association PO Box 654 Hershey, PA 17033-654 USA (map)

Collage Workshop with Marie Gamon

This class is a TWO day workshop

Aug. 30 and 31, 2022

10am - 2pm (will break for lunch)

$75 members/$90 non-members

Location is the Hershey History Center, 40 Northeast Drive, Hershey, PA 17033

If you like arranging things in a pleasing manner, this class is for you! Bring your left over bits of wrapping paper, patterned paper, greeting cards, decorative things, feathers , faux flowers or pressed plants, seashells or sea glass, ribbon…most anything that is not too heavy.  You are attaching this to stretched canvas, canvas board or matt board.  

Learn how to arrange these items in a fun and artistic way.  

Paint and design with papers, yarns, feathers, buttons, fabric, or collections of memorabilia collected from trips!   OR design your own painting with scissors, paints, string, and other bits of natural and colorful items!   In this workshop you will also learn about types of composition as we consider how to arrange your items in an attractive way. Marie will also demonstrate how to color white tissue paper(the wrapping kind) so that is does not fade.  

Material list:  

your interesting finds such as cards, patterned papers, feathers, small shells, sea glass, yarn, s trings, ribbons..(a good way to use interesting ribbon) fabric scraps… newspaper, maps

Modge podge, I will have some on hand, also.

Scissors /

Canvas, canvas board or matt board

brushes to apply the Modge Podge (should be cheap ones)

Acrylic paint ( if you have it, or want a special color)  I will have some on hand.

Please make checks payable to Hershey Area Art Association (HAAA) and mail to:

PO Box 654, Hershey, PA 17033

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Later Event: September 1
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