Tag: art

  • Fall is Coming: A Newsletter

    Fall is Coming: A Newsletter

    We’ve had a fun filled summer meeting new friends and old, sharing creative space, and learning new mixed media arts practices and techniques at locations all around the Quad Cities and Chicagoland area! Enjoy a few arts workshop highlights from Not Your Average Collage Class and Experimental Printmaking.

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  • Learn Mixed Media Art: 5 Experimental Printmaking Techniques to try in your Mixed Media Practice w/ Free Digital Download

    Learn Mixed Media Art: 5 Experimental Printmaking Techniques to try in your Mixed Media Practice w/ Free Digital Download

    New or experienced artists alike, we all benefit from experimentation and creative play in our artwork! Welcome to the digital resource hub for MMM: Experimental Printmaking! Here you can find the 5 mixed media techniques we learned in-workshop for your future reference. If you find yourself here outside of class, help yourself to the following…

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  • MMM: Experimental Printmaking August 20

    MMM: Experimental Printmaking August 20

    Join eco-artist Meg Hollister in learning to experimental printmaking techniques in an interactive, collaborative environment!

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  • Summer Newsletter: August Events, Workshops, and We in Arkansas bb

    Summer Newsletter: August Events, Workshops, and We in Arkansas bb

    Greetings fellow creatives! July just flew right by didn’t it? Meg checking in from Studio 2 with an August Newsletter! Mobile Educational Experience Mode Activated We’ve spent the last month doing local museum educational outreach, launched our first mixed media class series, and had another busy and beautiful Rock Island Artist’s Market at Skeleton Key.…

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  • Learn Mixed Media Art: 5 Collage Techniques with Free Digital Downloads

    Learn Mixed Media Art: 5 Collage Techniques with Free Digital Downloads

    New or experienced artists alike, we all benefit from experimentation and creative play in our artwork. Welcome to the digital resource hub for MMM: Not Your Average Collage Class! Here you can find the 5 mixed media techniques we learned in-workshop for your future reference.

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  • Summer Check In: Events, Workshops, and Celebrations

    Summer Check In: Events, Workshops, and Celebrations

    Summer has kicked off hard in the studio! This is Meg, brain-woman behind Studio 2, and I wanted to come in with a check in that spreads a little bit of sunshine, celebrates some small successes, and perhaps a fun fact or two.

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  • What is Eco Art?

    What is Eco Art?

    We were recently invited to the Wild Ones Quad Cities Symposium at The Hauberg Estates to share all about Eco Art! Eco Art is such a wide genre of art making. What follows is a more in depth exploration on Eco Art that may not have been able to fit in the confines of a…

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  • Monochrome Collage: A Studio Vlog

    Monochrome Collage: A Studio Vlog

    In this studio vlog, I take you through my process of working on 2 monochrome collage pieces from start to finish. These pieces are in response to a call for entry for Special Agent Collage Collective out of Carnation, Washington. What is The Special Agent Collage Collective? “SACC was created in August 2021 to interact…

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  • Februllage Week 2: Studio Vlog

    Februllage Week 2: Studio Vlog

    Week 2 of Februllage just concluded, and for this week I wanted to experiment with documenting the process of working in multiples. February is the best time of the year for mixed media collage artists: It’s Februllage! In this video, I take you through a studio vlog entry of my process of working on 4…

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  • Februllage 2025: 1-9(ish)

    Februllage 2025: 1-9(ish)

    I discovered Februllage last year in an internet rabbit hole. I loved it. In the depths of Midwest Winter, this is the creative project that seems to kick me back to life from the WInter SADs. What is Februllage? Februllage is a collaboration between Edinburgh Collage Collective and the Scandinavian Collage Museum. This initiative invites…

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