Offered through the Takoma Park Recreation Department, and now in its 16th year, Collage is a great collective work environment for novices and artists alike. Part color theory class, part exposure to fresh ideas about composition, it is a workshop, a critique group, and a place to generate, wrestle with, and nurture, visual ideas.

Participants can either cycle through the sequential 2-year (10 session) curriculum and work with a wide range of mixed media methods, materials, aspects of color and approaches to design, or drop in to specific classes to focus on a particular palette or design topic.

Experience the remarkable possibilities of paper, paint, and found materials! This class is held in the Takoma Park Community Center (address at the bottom of the page).

The Next Tuesday Collage begins on Jan 25, 2022 (Thursday option is currently available if and when the Tuesday class fills).

Registration for the Collage class opens online via the Takoma Park Recreation Department on Dec 22, 2021 and for Takoma Park residents and on Dec 29th, 2021 for non residents. You may register on-line here.

Session 1: Tuesdays – Jan 25 – Mar 8, 2022
Time: 11AM-2PM (No class on Feb 1)

 Split Complements, Symbols, and Signs
Participants explore split complementary color palettes, chroma range, and radiating form as an organizing principle (starburst, fan, etc). In the construction lesson, students create transparent, translucent, and opaque papers with acrylic inks and paints, using symbols, and signs, developing chroma gradation through color mixing, and layering. 
Tuition: $205.00 (TP Residents) $235 (Non res) + $25 materials fee due on the first day of class. Socially distanced, masked, & limited to 8 participants. Location: Takoma Park Community Center Art Room, Takoma Park, MD.

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Session Two, Tuesdays – Mar 15 – April 26, 2022
Time: 11AM-2PM (No class on Apr 12). 

Tertiary Triads and Transfers
In this class participants focus on the Tertiary Triad #2 color palette (RO-BV-YG), color temperature, and the use of photos and/or images as an organizing principle. The construction portion of the class involves creating black and white acrylic transfers, with the goal of layering images, patterns, solids and transfers in collage.   
Tuition: $205.00 (TP Residents) $235 (Non res) + $25 materials fee due on the first day of class. Socially distanced, masked, & limited to 8 participants. Location: Takoma Park Community Center Art Room, Takoma Park, MD.