Past Workshop InstructorsSkyler McGee Andrea Burgay Kathy Leader Bob Burridge Susan Gesundheidt Martin Facey Malka Nedivi Gerald Brommer Kathy Leader Robert Burridge Sylvia TorresRachelle Mark Mary Guzman Christel Thompson Sherrill Kahn Jeannine Stein Gerald Brommer Tanya Mikaela Jonathan Talbot Caryl Levy Jeanne Zinniker Lois Ramirez Kwei-Lin Lum Phyllis Doyon Barbara McIntyre | WORKSHOPSCAA presents workshops at which members study and create with a visiting artist. These sessions are extremely popular and are open to both members and prospective members. In addition, our talented CAA members also hold collage and mixed media workshops. These events, as well as other regional and national collage workshops, are detailed in our email newsletter to members.
Next Workshop Wabi Sabi + Collage Stories + Book Three-hour Zoom Workshop with Donna Watson Saturday, October 25, 2025, 10 AM - 1 PM, PST
The Japanese aesthetic is an appreciation of the beauty of things not perfect, not complete and not permanent. You do not have to be Japanese to appreciate things that are affected by the passage of time… things that are rusty, earthy, textured and organic… a love of nature and an awareness that all things are transient. It is also an acceptance of the natural cycle of decay and aging. Wabi Sabi is about noticing and reacting to small details. It is fluid and ever changing, with a love of the imperfections in nature and in life. It is also a way of life…slow down, notice the small things, and accept the cycle of life. In this workshop, you will see examples of wabi sabi. You will also see examples of artists who use wabi sabi tenets in their work. By watching a video, you will be shown different ways to age your papers. Then you will learn how to make a soft cover bound book and fill the pages with hand painted papers, or found papers like old book pages, or textured papers. You can use imagery found in books, magazines, rubber stamps, stencils, image transfers. You can find your story to tell in your book: suggestions: —- content: what is your interest or passion? brainstorm words for birds, feathers, nest, rocks, summer, blue, red, winter, tree etc —-explore your heritage, family history or events, current events —-explore your sense of place: current or past… trips, childhood You will be given time to add papers, images, text, etc to your book to convey your content… or story. Then you will be invited to share your book and describe your content or story to the group. https://www.donnawatsonart.com/ Tips, Definitions and Book Sources
Most Recent Past Workshop Narrative Abstraction: Telling your story one mark at a time Three-hour Zoom Workshop with Skyler McGee Saturday, January 18, 2025, 10 AM - 1 PM, PST 
Course Description and Materials
Past Workshops Collage Processes as Metaphor Three-hour Zoom Workshop with Andrea Burgay Saturday, October 14, 2023, 9 AM - 12 PM, PDT
Abstraction in Collage - Composition and Techniques Three-hour Zoom Demo/Workshop with Kathy Leader Saturday, February 25, 2023, 11 AM - 2 PM, PST
Painting with Collage Shapes (and paint too!) Two-hour Zoom Demo/Workshop with Bob Burridge Monday, October 25, 2021, 5-7 PM, PDT
Paper-Altering Using Acrylic Paint Three-hour Zoom Demo/Workshop with Susan Gesundheit Click Here for Participant Images June 16, 2021
Wit's End; Two Hands/Three Ideas; Maps to Becoming Your Art Two-day workshop with Martin Facey March 29 and 30, 2019
Inspirational Biography Two-day Workshop with Malka Nedivi Friday-Saturday, October 26-27, 2018
Saturday, November 11, 2017
Learn How to Make Altered Papers for Use in Collage One-day Workshop with Kathy Leader Saturday, February 25, 2017 Have fun creating interesting papers for use in collage/mixed media work. Learn how to make successful compositions.
Postmodern Painter Meets the Contemporary Collage Artist
Three-day Workshop with Bob Burridge. Friday-Sunday, December 2-4, 2016
Upcycling the Discarded
Two-day Workshop with Sylvia Torres
Tuesday - Wednesday . April 19-20, 2016
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Loosen up, find your creative self in this three-day workshop led by internationally known mixed-media artist Bob Burridge.
Discover the use of a new/old element in your artwork. In this two-day workshop, participants will use the discarded and the worn -- old books, maps, photos, letters, documents -- to create works of artistic beauty. Sylvia will guide you through processes to resurrect and repurpose these delicate items of the past into works of precious wonder.
In this hands-on workshop, Rachelle will demonstrate techniques on how to collage onto unstretched #4 heavy canvas, which will then be coated with heat-resistant acrylic varnish. The finished washable work can serve as placemats, floor paintings, or frameable art!Copyright 2005-2025. Collage Artists of America is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
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