August 12 – 13, 2025 @ 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Class Limited to 12
$150, supply list, other supplies included, but may bring your own
Ages 16 +

Becky comes to this workshop with the idea that everyone is creative, everyone can find their own voice and succeed in this medium. The collage process is so flexible and Becky will create an environment where the beginner to the advanced artist will learn, grow, create, have fun, and walk away with skills to use in their art practice AND finish some cool collages.

Becky will introduce the processes to covered in class with many examples and demos so you will be confident to create your own unique collages. We will create with a variety of layering techniques using photo transfers printed on tissue paper, transparencies, fabric, etc. We will transfer onto papers, fabric, metal, glass, wood, and much more with multiple transfer techniques. Each student will build at least 4 collages along the way.

Becky also creates digital collages and will discuss and demonstrate several ways to use layers in Photoshop to create a collage with digital textures and photographs. If you bring your own laptop, we’ll spend time in class working on a digital collage.

Becky will be bringing some photographs on transfers ready for the collage class, but you have the option of bringing your own photos that we’ll scan and print during class OR email copies of the photos to Becky ahead of time and she’ll have them ready for you to use in class day one.

Especially since this is a milestone year for Eagles Mere Friends of the Arts, if you’d like to create a collage with your photos and memories of Eagles Mere, Becky will also help you look at options for your collage. Whether it’s treasures from your years in Eagles Mere, newly-found family photographs, or something completely new, we will spend the second day working on a larger collage incorporating those techniques we played with on day one.

You’ll walk away at the end of class with: 4 unique and original collages; an understanding of at least eight ways to use photo transfers to create collages; use a variety of adhesives to attach collages; use a variety of substrates to build a collage upon; use encaustic wax as one way to seal collages; create with a group of cool artists in a low-stress, relaxed environment; see/build digital collages…..and much more.

About Becky Carpenter

Becky has been playing with art materials since childhood and bought her first camera at the age of 10. She’s been combining her love of materials and photography ever since. Becky comes to Eagles Mere as a relative newcomer to PA. She traveled around the country with her husband and daughter while he was in the military and settled in the Morgantown, PA , area a few years ago. She has an undergrad from ASU in Boone, NC, in Art Education K-12, a Master of Art Education from VCU in Richmond, VA, and an associate’s degree in photography and media from NOVA in VA. https://www.rebeccacarpenterimagery.com

Supply List

Scissors, X-Acto knife, healing mat for knife, glue stick; photos you want to scan for transfers; any personal fabrics, papers, memorabilia you want to use in your collages; any pens, watercolors, ink pads, pencils that you already own you’d like to use in your collages. If you want a substrate larger than 11” x 14” for your largest collage, please bring your own hardboard in the size you’d like (not canvas) – heavy duty watercolor paper or hardboard.

Becky will bring everything else you’ll really need to use for this workshop, but if you’d like to use your own photos or vintage photos, please:

1. Email several photos to Becky before the workshop starts so she can scan and print them on transfer papers or

2. Bring photos on day 1 of class so Becky can show you how to scan and get them ready to print on transfer papers. Becky will have photos on transfer papers for you to use if you don’t want to provide your own photos.

Questions – email Becky @ rebeccacarpenter@me.com