Class Description and Supply List: Junk Drawer Art - Repurposed Art Assemblage Workshop w/ Julie White, Robin Pearson, & Debbie Sparks

Class Description and Supply List: Junk Drawer Art - Repurposed Art Assemblage Workshop w/ Julie White, Robin Pearson, & Debbie Sparks

Class | Available

All Levels ages 16 +
7/13/2025 (one day)
12:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT on Sun
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$50.00
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Class Description and Supply List: Junk Drawer Art - Repurposed Art Assemblage Workshop w/ Julie White, Robin Pearson, & Debbie Sparks

Class | Available

How many of us have drawers full of junk that we can’t bear to part with because, “It might be useful some day!”?  These three ladies have all mastered the art of assembling this formerly useless stuff into art!  Spend a fun and creative afternoon with these fun-loving artists while they help you reach the pinnacle of your artistic career by visualizing, assembling, and finishing some “priceless” art.  Whether your resulting work will fetch millions at Sotheby’s or not, you’ll have fun, make some new friends, and, at the very least, empty out that junk drawer!  

We will be starting with tips and tricks for choosing supports, backgrounds, or armatures, which to use and when, how to go about building an armature or base structure for your work, or how to plan the arrangement of elements.  We'll also have a little "shopping spree" where participants can peruse our collection of objects, papers, supports, and other doo-dads.  During the workshop we'll also cover creative problem-solving as it relates to joining and securing elements.  We'll provide each student with either a canvas or a cigar box so that everyone will be able to take home their assemblage piece.   


We’ll provide tools, wire, glue/epoxy, and piles of our own collected doo-dads to choose from.  But please feel free to bring along old hinges, single earrings, springs, broken umbrellas/lamp shades/sunglasses, and all of those leftover allen wrenches from your IKEA “some-assembly-required” kits.

*** Join Robin prior to class for a free 15 minute introduction to Qigong. A meditative movement to open up those juicy channels of creativity and well being.

 


  • We’ll provide tools, wire, glue/epoxy, and piles of our own collected doo-dads to choose from.  

    But please feel free to bring along old hinges, single earrings, springs, broken umbrellas/lamp shades/sunglasses, and all of those leftover allen wrenches from your IKEA “some-assembly-required” kits.

     

Pierce, Julie
Julie Pierce

Julie White Pierce has a BA in Visual Art from Albion College and. MA in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University.  She has spent meny years working as a gallery director, art consultant, and conservator, and has taught art on all levels, from elementary school art enrichment programs, through middle school and high school art, to college level Art and Art History courses.  She has been fortunate to be able to study abroad numerous times in her life (Denmark, Spain, Italy, Greece, Ecuador, and Guatemala to name a few!).  She loves the act of "making" - so all media are fair game!  Personal favorites are painting, drawing, ceramics, repurposed materials assemblage, and marble carving.  She is currently the Gallery and Program Director at Oliver Art Center.

Pearson, Robin
Robin Pearson

Robin Pearson is regional artist whose work usually features assemblage of interesting ephemera and found objects. She has led workshops and has participated in numerous exhibitions throughout northern Michigan. She is a free spirit who finds joy in the process of making and loves sharing that with others.

From the artists:"My art stretches across multiple mediums and techniques, utilizing a variety of materials and objects found in nature as well as city streets. I enjoy finding new ways to blend these materials into unknown outcomes for it is the joy of playing at art that keeps me creating."