Tag: mixed media

  • 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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  • 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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  • The Power of Imagination makes Us Infinite

    The Power of Imagination makes Us Infinite

    Inspired by #februllage2024 prompt: Escape, I made this video collage…animation…thing…in Blender. Using a photo from my trip to Iceland, maps and illustrations from the public domain , and Blender’s Grease Pencil, I made this little thang as a practice and experiment. Working in collage is a great way to stay loose, throw perfection out the…

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  • Sending Love From Iceland: Mixed Media Video Collage

    Sending Love From Iceland: Mixed Media Video Collage

    Sending Love from Iceland- Video Collage Created in Blender. Using a photo I took while travelling in Iceland, maps from the public domain, and Blender’s Grease Pencil, I created this video collage…animation…mixed media piece? As inspired by the februllage prompt: Postcard. Enjoy!

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  • Fall Terrarium and Shadowbox Workshops- Registration Now Open!

    Fall Terrarium and Shadowbox Workshops- Registration Now Open!

    Registration for Studio 2 Design’s Fall Classes through the Bemis School of Art is now open! Are you looking for a unique creative workshop experience? Do you really dig the terrarium and shadowbox art that Studio 2 is known for? Or, do you have the desire to make a truly inventive and inspiring gift for a…

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