Whether we’re close to our families or not, our reactions to our familial circumstances shape who we are. Are there photos, letters, records, and/or documents* in your drawers that you’ve kept for years that are family related? Maybe a coloring book from a family member? Or drawings by your children from elementary school? Whether it’s a ticket to a theme park you went to with your parents, or photos from high school graduation, memories on paper have contexts.

Learn the history of collage art and alter your paper memories by cutting, gluing, drawing, painting, writing on the paper to give rise to meditation of memories accompanied.

*If they are important documents, workshop participants are asked to make copies and bring the copies of the photos or documentation to the workshop for altering and collaging. Please don’t bring originals that workshop participants don’t want to be destroyed.

This event is free to the public and registration not required, but seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and may be limited.

Photo/Jeannie Hua.

Jeannie Hua graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in 2022. Since then, she taught at Ox-Bow School of Art for their Art in the Meadows program. Her work is currently shown at the Window Gallery at Barrick Museum. She also had work shown at First Street Gallery in NYC and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago in 2022. She had a solo show at College of Southern Nevada’s ArtSpace Gallery and became adjunct faculty in Art History at the school in 2023.

She has participated in group exhibitions in galleries and museums in New York, Illinois, California, Nevada, Michigan, Virginia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Utah, Tennessee, Oregon, and Orquevaux, France. She was the recipient of the Denis Didero Grant, Nevada Council of Arts Grant, as well as merit scholarship to Ox-Bow School of Art.