Collage Play In-Store Class Feb 1

Collage Play In-Store Class
Saturday, February 1, 11:30-4:30pm 
Instructor: Fran Meneley
Limit: 6 students. All participants must be 15 years or older.

Class Details

Whether you’ve been collaging forever or just getting started, you’ll leave this class looking at collage in a new way. Local artist Fran Meneley, who has years of experience putting images together brilliantly, has an approach to the art of collage that’s both intuitive and well-grounded in specific techniques. She starts the class with a few warm up exercises, with everyone receiving the same materials at the beginning of each exercise. The results are eye-opening, instructive, and inspiring. It’s amazing to see how each person’s natural approach produces such a wide variety of small collages. 

Additional exercises are fast-paced and keep you working from the right side of your brain. There’s no time for anything else! Strangely enough, working this way leads to more meaningful pieces. This is the perfect class to sort through and use up your stash of papers – the cards, illustrations, other images, handwritten notes, theater playbills, tickets to special events, even postcards – that you love but don’t know what to do with. Fran helps you see how to create something new and uniquely yours from these seemingly unrelated items. What treasures!

An email will be sent to participants the Monday before the class. Classes with homework may receive pre-class info earlier.  No email? Double check the email address you entered when you registered and your SPAM folder. Due to SPAM filters and inbox settings, we cannot guarantee you will see, read, or open these emails. Two Hands Paperie assumes no responsibility for non-attendance of a class. Contact twohandsclasses@gmail.com with any class questions and see our Class Policies page for more information. 

Class Materials

Please bring the following materials:

• Three magazines (to cut up) whose images speak to you
• Favorite scissors for fine cutting
• Optional: other favorite ephemera and images
• Optional: a journal. Most exercises are done on paper that’s provided in class, but bring in a journal if you’d like. It should be medium sized, with pages that are heavy enough to take some water media. Fran recommends the 9x12 inch Strathmore Mixed Media Visual Journal. (Make sure to get the Mixed Media Visual Journal. The covers on Strathmore journals are all the same despite being different sizes and containing different paper.)
• Optional: Water bottle and something to eat during the short lunch break.

Class Materials Include:

• Paper, extra images, etc
• Extra ephemera, adhesive, and other creative tools/supplies

Class Refund/Cancellation Policy

Cancellations made up to 14 days prior to the first class meeting will be refunded or, at the participant's option, used to pay for another class. Two Hands Paperie will retain a $10 processing fee for EACH class cancelled by a participant. After 14 days, there is no refund or credit. In addition, the fee for a class cancelled within this 14-day timeframe by a participant cannot be transferred to pay for another class. These policies are to ensure that teachers are compensated for their investment in materials and in time spent preparing for the class. We reserve the right to cancel a class if fewer than 3 students enroll 48 hours prior to the scheduled class time. If for any reason Two Hands Paperie cancels a class, students will be called at the phone number on file and refunded the FULL class fee.

Instructor Bio

Fran Meneley is an explorer, journaler, painter, maker, teacher, and workshop facilitator for the Taos Studio Retreat in New Mexico. For 23 years she’s been journaling, writing, collaging, and painting in her studio and on the road. She loves to cook and eat (not in that order), travel and explore (always, anywhere), garden sporadically (and in small containers), museum hop, blog (exploring life, travel, and art – the good stuff), dance (with or without a partner), teach art (big and small humans), and scavenge and collect. Fran is inspired by the intricacies and divine beauty of nature, and is a lifelong learner and experimenter. In a former life she was Associate Publisher of a nationally circulated environmental magazine called Buzzworm. 

You can find Fran’s work in 1,000 Artist Journal Pages by Dawn DeVries Sokol, Beaded Embellishment by Amy Clarke, 500 Beaded Objects by Lark Books, and The Brooklyn Art Library’s Sketchbook Project. She’s also in issues of the following magazines: Studios, Beadwork, and Cloth, Paper, Scissors. To read an interview on the Two Hands Paperie blog about Fran’s creative process and teaching, click HERE. Also visit Fran’s website: franmeneley.com and find her on Instagram: @athandstudio.

Fran lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband. She delights in the fact that her grown, adventurous children visit often!