Mixed Media Workshop [Ages 18-Adult]

This workshop will introduce students to techniques involved in mixed media painting, with emphasis on the interaction of various media, methods of collage, and the layering and mixing of found materials. Students will create multi-directional visual compositions with a variety of printed materials, paint, images, fabric, and found objects. Techniques will include collage, drawing, acrylic painting techniques, mixing, stencils, assemblage, cutting, and pasting, etc.

About the Teaching Artist: Danielle Cartier is best known for her large-scale, multimedia paintings made from reconstructed materials, recombined ephemera and layered printmaking and painting processes. Danielle was born in San Jose, California in 1991 and grew up in the Northern California Bay Area. She graduated from Sonoma State University in 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree, concentrating in both painting and printmaking. In May 2017, Danielle received her Master of Fine Art from the Graduate School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Her work has been viewed in various exhibitions across Northern California, the Tri-State area, New England and the Philadelphia region. She currently teaches Drawing I, Two-Dimensional Design and Three-Dimensional Design at Harcum College in Byrn Mawr, Pennsylvania and is also an Artist in Residence at the Waterfront South Project in Camden, New Jersey.

Artist Website: daniellecartier.net