Collage Your Story with Catherine Cruz
Sunday, June 29, 2025; 11am - 3pm
Cost: $110 + $15 materials fee
Ages 16 and up; Located in Dining Room at SebArts
Join French-American collage artist Catherine Cruz for a special, personalized workshop designed just for you! The word collage comes from the French verb coller, meaning "to glue," and is all about merging various materials to tell a visual story. Much like our lives, which are shaped by countless moments and experiences, collage pieces bring together fragments that reveal hidden connections and untold narratives. In this class, you’ll reflect on what matters most to you and how that can be expressed through art. Catherine will help you release the need for perfection and trust your creative instincts. By the end of the workshop, you’ll not only have a finished artwork but also a deeper connection to your creative potential and a renewed love for the art of collage.
What you’ll learn: Creative ways to incorporate your personal story in your art, Methods for sourcing interesting collage papers, Techniques for crafting textured, multi-layered collages, Strategies for refining your composition
You are highly encouraged to bring your own papers to personalize your artwork like ephemera that represents your life, copies of photos, old letters, books, papers from memorable experiences or travels, or documents that hold meaning. If you’re not comfortable using these documents, you should make color copies of them. For this process, it is also best to make laser copies of your photographs.
Supplies provided by instructor: panel, collage papers, acrylic medium, brushes
About the instructor: Catherine Cruz is a French-American artist whose work is informed by the textures and patterns created by the passing of time and the effects of the natural elements on the built environment. She has taught collage and mixed media in the Bay Area and France since 2019. Her background is in interior design and green building certification. She works from her home studio in Sebastopol, CA, and participates in Art Trails Open Studios. You may contact Catherine at beyouartstudio@gmail.com.
Sunday, June 29, 2025; 11am - 3pm
Cost: $110 + $15 materials fee
Ages 16 and up; Located in Dining Room at SebArts
Join French-American collage artist Catherine Cruz for a special, personalized workshop designed just for you! The word collage comes from the French verb coller, meaning "to glue," and is all about merging various materials to tell a visual story. Much like our lives, which are shaped by countless moments and experiences, collage pieces bring together fragments that reveal hidden connections and untold narratives. In this class, you’ll reflect on what matters most to you and how that can be expressed through art. Catherine will help you release the need for perfection and trust your creative instincts. By the end of the workshop, you’ll not only have a finished artwork but also a deeper connection to your creative potential and a renewed love for the art of collage.
What you’ll learn: Creative ways to incorporate your personal story in your art, Methods for sourcing interesting collage papers, Techniques for crafting textured, multi-layered collages, Strategies for refining your composition
You are highly encouraged to bring your own papers to personalize your artwork like ephemera that represents your life, copies of photos, old letters, books, papers from memorable experiences or travels, or documents that hold meaning. If you’re not comfortable using these documents, you should make color copies of them. For this process, it is also best to make laser copies of your photographs.
Supplies provided by instructor: panel, collage papers, acrylic medium, brushes
About the instructor: Catherine Cruz is a French-American artist whose work is informed by the textures and patterns created by the passing of time and the effects of the natural elements on the built environment. She has taught collage and mixed media in the Bay Area and France since 2019. Her background is in interior design and green building certification. She works from her home studio in Sebastopol, CA, and participates in Art Trails Open Studios. You may contact Catherine at beyouartstudio@gmail.com.
Sunday, June 29, 2025; 11am - 3pm
Cost: $110 + $15 materials fee
Ages 16 and up; Located in Dining Room at SebArts
Join French-American collage artist Catherine Cruz for a special, personalized workshop designed just for you! The word collage comes from the French verb coller, meaning "to glue," and is all about merging various materials to tell a visual story. Much like our lives, which are shaped by countless moments and experiences, collage pieces bring together fragments that reveal hidden connections and untold narratives. In this class, you’ll reflect on what matters most to you and how that can be expressed through art. Catherine will help you release the need for perfection and trust your creative instincts. By the end of the workshop, you’ll not only have a finished artwork but also a deeper connection to your creative potential and a renewed love for the art of collage.
What you’ll learn: Creative ways to incorporate your personal story in your art, Methods for sourcing interesting collage papers, Techniques for crafting textured, multi-layered collages, Strategies for refining your composition
You are highly encouraged to bring your own papers to personalize your artwork like ephemera that represents your life, copies of photos, old letters, books, papers from memorable experiences or travels, or documents that hold meaning. If you’re not comfortable using these documents, you should make color copies of them. For this process, it is also best to make laser copies of your photographs.
Supplies provided by instructor: panel, collage papers, acrylic medium, brushes
About the instructor: Catherine Cruz is a French-American artist whose work is informed by the textures and patterns created by the passing of time and the effects of the natural elements on the built environment. She has taught collage and mixed media in the Bay Area and France since 2019. Her background is in interior design and green building certification. She works from her home studio in Sebastopol, CA, and participates in Art Trails Open Studios. You may contact Catherine at beyouartstudio@gmail.com.