Join Melanie Mowinski, artist and author of Collage Your Life: Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Creative Self-Expression and Visual Storytelling, for a 90-minute workshop. We will explore creative practice, the intuitive nature of collage making, and the power of collage to heal. Expect a guided art making process designed to look into your self and out to your world. Plan to leave with ideas and images to accompany you on your own creative path.

All supplies provided for this workshop complements of the DeKalb Library Foundation.

Tickets are limited. They will be released Tuesday, September 20th, at noon. Once the event is full, you may register for a spot on the Waitlist. If you register for the event but cannot attend, please cancel your registration to make room for someone on the waitlist. Please plan to attend for the full 90 minutes and participate fully in the workshop. We also invite everyone to attend Melanie's Artist Talk, following the workshop, which is free and open to the public and will be held in the Fourth Floor gallery. Register for the Artist Talk here REGISTER.

Melanie is one of the artists whose work is featured in The Book As Art v.10: Transformation. Learn more about the show at BookAsArt.com.

Melanie Mowinski is a professor of art at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and founder of PRESS: LetterPRESS as a Public Art Project. She has maintained a daily practice of collage and creating with paper for more than 10 years. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Visit her at melaniemowinski.com.

Requiring minimal equipment—just scissors, glue, paper, and pens—collage is an accessible craft that offers limitless creative possibilities. Like meditation or journaling, making collage can be an avenue for self-reflection and artistic exploration. In Collage Your Life, artist and teacher Melanie Mowinski teaches a variety of core techniques including lettering, stamping, stenciling, transfers, and adhesive methods, and provides dozens of prompts to jumpstart the creative process and encourage crafters to explore the versatility of collage, such as: make a self-portrait; disrupt your routine instincts; incorporate text; assemble mementos from a trip; process anger or anxiety; collage with others; or try creating block-out poetry with pages from a magazine. Inspiring examples of the author's work along with that of other collage artists are featured throughout. Crafters, journaling fans, scrapbookers, and artists alike will find guidance and support for developing their own distinctive collage style, whether the goal is to create a visual record of daily experiences and special occasions or to expand a creative journaling practice.