Collage: A Record for Living

Instructor: M. Kobe

Day & Date: Friday, February 28, 2025

Time: 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Tuition: $65.00

Ages: Adult (18 and Up)

Experience Level: All levels are welcome. No experience required.

Students Please Bring:

• Recycled paper, wrapping paper, book pages, magazines, fabric, buttons, pins, etc. to use in a collage
• A photo of your home/backyard or a place that is important to you
• Note taking materials
• (Optional) A snack and/or water bottle. Filtered water is available in the classroom

I consider the act of collecting materials like drawing. Always rooted in my own life and experiences, the materials I collect for collage are a record of my life. Receipts, newspapers, gift wrapping, photos, pages from books, and cut up scraps of fabric, are all things I have used in my collages. What can you learn about an artist by the materials they use? Together we will discuss the history of collage and how artists have used this process to embed personal narratives or hidden meanings into their art. We will use these personally sourced materials to create a collage of a home, a landscape, or a place that is important to us. Using basic drawing materials, we will add and subtract from our collages, transforming them into an autobiographical piece of art.

An additional fee for materials provided by your instructor for this workshop is estimated at $20.00 THIS FEE IS PAYABLE TO THE INSTRUCTOR at the time of the workshop. Material fees may change depending on the number of participants and price of materials at the workshop. *Payment by cash or check is required for materials fees. 

* Workshops are subject to low enrollment cancellation if the minimum number of 4 students is not reached. If you have any questions, you’re welcome to call Olive’s Porch for up-to-date enrollment information.

About Instructor: M. Kobe is from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They earned an MFA in Painting from Boston University, a BFA in Painting, and a BA in Art History from Louisiana State University. Kobe is a storyteller and multi-disciplinary artist working primarily with textiles, natural materials, and lucky objects. Drawing upon her experiences growing up in the American South, her work contends with the religious mythologies of her upbringing, superstition, notions of home, and cultural inheritance. Kobe is currently an Artist in Residence at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and was recently a resident at Azule. They participated in several group exhibitions, including Into the Thicket at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, NY, and Homologous Structures at The University of Wisconsin Green Bay’s Lawton Gallery. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA. Kobe was the grand prize recipient of the 2023 Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award, the BU Women’s Council Scholarship, the Constantin Alajalov Visual Art Scholarship, and the Michael Crespo Memorial Scholarship.