Sunday, June 21; 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Instructor: Katya McCulloch

In this advanced, hands-on workshop you will explore ways to create a collage that expresses a visually believable and complex vision through seamless justaposition of your selected collage elements. Compositing is the technique of combining visual elements from separate sources into single images, creating the illusion that all the elements are parts of the same scene.

You will practice a variety of skills with different tools in order to achieve this illusion, and you will experiment with dimensional elements. The instructor will teach strategies for preserving and deconstructi i ng your layout for final gluing, allowing you to tell a visual story through a unified, image-dense composition.

Katya McCulloch is a community artist whose work is exhibited internationally and in private and public collections including the Library of Congress, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Emory University, among many other special collection libraries. Her current Liberty Series collage work was exhibited in the de Young Open 2023. She has an MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute, with BA in Studio Art & German Language and Literature from UC Berkeley.

She believes strongly that art is not just a profession, but a universal need that marks our humanity. Katya has taught printmaking at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center through the William James Association since 2004. As Director and founder of TeamWorks Art Mentoring Program, she has made art with historically marginalized and justice system involved youth in Marin County for 26 years. She is passionate about collaborative murals and has created public art in unconventional settings such as Music Outback Foundation “MobFest” (Australia 2008-12), Marin County Fair “Public Art Days” (2000-2006), Italian Street Painting Festival (2001-2003), and in continuation schools throughout Marin.

Website: www.katyamcculloch.com

Fee: MarinMOCA Members: $100 Non-members $120

Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor.

Where: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; 1210 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael (at B Street)