Collage Workshop

It’s Women’s History Month, so I attended a Women’s History Month collage workshop in person at the library! The presenter provided all the materials and I had a blast! I used to collage using magazines, scissors and glue all the time as a kid on a rainy day, and this brought back memories. I still collage today sometimes with magazines, but I mostly collage on the PicCollage app and digitally.

The presenter had scissors, glue, magazines, different materials and printed photos of famous women (mostly artists) and told us to pick a theme, so I chose music. I put Tina Turner and Billie Holiday on my collage, and added color around the border from an artists who used to do quilting, whose name escapes me now. I also took sheet music and cut it up to use as a background, as well as colored paper, especially since the photos of the women I used were in black and white. I used a piece of cardboard and glued it onto a brown paper shopping bag as the canvas.

Reflections:
I had a lot of fun making my collage for about an hour and a half! You can see it above. As a side note, the presenter also had a radio with music on in the background with lots of female singers (from before my time – I recognized the songs but couldn’t tell you who was singing them). She knew them all, and told us who they were anyway! I thought that was pretty cool, and the presenter knew a lot about all of the famous people’s lives! She was full of information!