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Artists Association of Nantucket
ART CLASSES EVENTS

Course Description

Find new dimensions to your creative process through collage and mixed media experimentation. Develop active interconnected surfaces with a variety of papers from many sources, fabric and botanical elements. Sherre will demonstrate dying and manipulating papers and my methods for building a painting using paper fragments and printed images. Included in the workshop will be cyanotype printing and alternative methods and materials. Students will work open-endedly, foster the element of surprise in their work and be inspired by unexpected visual connections. Cross pollination and a lively class environment is encouraged, rich with shared ideas and inspiration. This is the perfect workshop for artists of all levels, working in any media. Continuing and advanced students will be guided to enrich and deepen their imagery.

Students taking both sessions will not find it repetitive! We will all learn a great deal from each other.

AAN is able to provide scholarships/tuition aid through the Healing Through the Creative Arts Program. This program is made possible through funding from the Town of Nantucket Human Services Department. For questions or assistance please contact Elizabeth Buccino, Director of Education

Cancellation Policy

AAN depends upon student tuition to continue to offer classes and workshops. Due to our commitment to small class sizes and the hands-on nature of art education, we are greatly impacted by cancellations. Nevertheless, we do understand that plans change. If you need to cancel your reservation for a class or workshop, please note our cancellation/refund policy here and let us know as soon as possible.

Materials

Suggested Materials List

Surfaces
Bring more than one surface - any size
Recommended: Hardboard panels (flat or cradled)
Heavyweight drawing or canvas paper
Stretched canvas

Adhesives

Recommended: Lineco Neutral pH Adhesive, PVA adhesive - or other archival glue
Acrylic medium (fluid), matte or gloss

Painting / drawing materials

Suggestions include: oil paint, acrylic paint, Golden Brand high flow transparent acrylic paint.
Suggested oil pigments:
Mussini - transparent oriental blue, violet, magenta, turquoise
Williamsburg - quinacridone gold, transparent brown oxide, ultramarine blue, Indian yellow, Cold black, Paynes gray, Phthylo blue
Suggested Acrylic high flow transparent paint - any color
Please note: I will have paints, both oil and high flow acrylics on hand for you to try…bring what you can, don’t spend a fortune!

Brushes: Simply Simmons - very inexpensive, and they come in a variety of sizes

Old key cards, plastic or wooden spoons or a bone folder (for smoothing out bubbles)

Source Material

Photos, prints from photos on plain paper - preferably acid free - Inkjet or laser prints
Images from any printed source - magazines, journal pages, letters, etc.
Organic materials, tracing paper, rice paper, colored papers, wrapping papers, etc.

There will be source material available from my collection, as well as the AAN collection of a variety of collage materials. Students will have the opportunity to print some images at the AAN.

Collage and Mixed Media Painting I, 18+

Sherre Wilson-Liljegren

Sherre Wilson Liljegren is a painter, photographer, mixed media artist, and lifelong AAN member. She received her BFA at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in Painting and Printmaking, before earning an MS in Art Education at Massachusetts College of Art. Wilson-Liljergen has shown her work internationally, exhibiting her ethereal landscapes and interiors of Nantucket, England, Spain, Mexico, Wyoming and the Artic. In the late 90’s she revamped the adult painting classes at the Gardner-Perry facility, later serving on the AAN board from 2009 to 2018. Residencies include two Visual Artist Residency Fellowships at Vermont Studios Center, and most recently completed The Arctic Circle Residency’s Art and Science expedition to the High Arctic in 2019.
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