Paper Pal Collage Club
Yes, I’ve joined another group. The Winslow Art Center in Bainbridge Island Washington, like many other schools, offered online classes for the first time this year, and I joined a three month prototype with Lucie Duclos called Paper Pals Collage Club. I’d known of Lucie after seeing her featured in Uppercase Magazine (highly recommended) and then on Instagram. I’ve mentioned the Handmade Book Club before (Ali Manning’s creation), and now Lucie is trying out something similar for collage crazy people – weekly exercises/prompts, monthly live on-line sessions to learn new techniques and share, and a private community. This one isn’t on Facebook, which is my preference.
Lucie has been giving prompts every week, and so far they have focused on composition issues – kind of familiar to be from composition classes I took when I lived in Atlanta with Chery Baird at Spruill Arts Center – I’ll no doubt talk about Chery more, because her classes had a tremendous impact on me.
Anyway, The group was originally set to run for three weeks, but I think the plan is to continue, we’ll see. I do know that Winslow has announced that they will continue online offerings, and I hope that many other teachers and schools decide to do the same.