Collage With Intention Class

Join Gather Goods Co shop owner Michelle Smith and collage artist Paget Blythe in creating a collage with meaning and intention. Students will cut, tear, and arrange paper to help them process their thoughts and ideas in a tactile way into an intentional work of found art.

All supplies will be provided, but you are welcome to bring any particular images or items you would like to potentially work with.

Tea, seltzers and light snacks are provided as well. Feel free to bring your own food and BYOB if you want as well. 

Collage is an active process of creating new meaning from images and items taken out of their original context – whether magazine photos, book text, fabric scraps or found objects. It’s a putting together of pieces selected by an individual as significant to them in the moment, a visceral response to the present. Cutting, tearing and arranging imagery, color, pattern and texture is cathartic and helps us process the world around us through a tactile selection and manipulation of images. Create your own personal Intention Collage while enjoying the peaceful and invigorating power of making art in community.

Paget Marion Blythe works in acrylic, mixed media and collage. She is particularly interested in using traditional iconography and artifacts from “women’s work” to question identity narratives. As a gleaner, a lover of thrift stores and side of the road haunts, the materials that Paget collects from these places is both an inspiration for her work and often directly incorporated into it. Imagining the silent stories behind textile remnants, discarded papers and found objects, her paintings allow these materials to gain new agency. Paget’s recent focus is exploring how the mindful practice of art offers comfort, consolation and awakening for individuals and
communities during times of intense societal and personal change.

Unfortunately, due to the preparation time that both Gather and our instructors put into each class, cancellations and refunds cannot be made without 24 hours prior notice. Groups that signed up together with 4 or people need to provide 7 days cancellation notice. If you are unable to attend a class after you’ve registered a store credit will be issued.

Also, if these dates don't work but you can pull together a group of 4 or more people we can teach a private class on a different date of your choosing at our location or yours.