Creative community through sustainable art

Greetings, fellow creatives! Meg here with a fresh batch of summer news, and real talk, the calendar is filling up in the best way. Spring is doing its thing out there — the native plants are waking up, the light is getting long, and I am very much in my element. Let’s get into it.…

Greetings Fellow Creatives! Meg with Studio 2 Makings here dropping a chilly late January line in an attempt to stay warm this winter. We’re almost through. Stay focused, we got this! We’ve got some news on events new and old, a fun creative collage challenge, and some behind the scenes studio projects to discuss in…

Greetings fellow creatives! Meg with studio 2 here dropping in with a quick line to let Studio 2 Making’s Newsletter subscribers know first: 2 new mixed media arts workshop tickets have opened for registration, AND ONE OF THEM IS FREE. Ope. Here are the details: FREE Workshop: Linocut Carving and Printing @ Bettendorf Public Library…

It’s officially Spooky Season! Meg with Studio 2 here, and we have a jam packed month incoming! We hit the full spectrum of all of the things we love this month: Community, Arts, Sustainable Practices.

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

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.…

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.

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.

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…