Gallery – Round Table Collaboration

Sept 13: Originator (MDW) I originally created a different collage for my starter piece but decided to create another collage piece for the Round Table Collaboration. This was inspired by my niece Michelle and Lucie’s wedding. I can’t wait to see what everyone else is and very excited on how the final stage will look like.

Askush Nuk

Cindy Cargas

Round 2 from Group Cerulean of @specialagentcollagecollective

Round 3 Group Cerulean @specialagentcollagecollective

Margot de Korte

My addition round 3 and 4 for group Cobalt

Amanda Petrozzini

These are the first three collages for team Peacock through Special Agent Collage.

Jenny Lloyd

1. Jenny’s starter piece, phase 1
2. starter piece detail
3. Helen’s (@astoriahysteria) starter piece; phase 2 piece started by Cheryl (@stitchpixie) with additions by Helen
4. Helen’s starter piece with Jenny’s additions – phase 2
5. phase 2 detail.
6. phase 3 piece by Cheryl, Helen and Jenny
7. phase 3 detail
8. phase 3 back side ♥

Bushra Gill

Sending off my starter collage today, a relief print of glass shards atop an image transfer of a tree photo. I look forward to seeing what the other artists add to this.

Melanie Landro

Mission 15: Postal Collage Project | Round 3

Roberta Fudim

I had a lot of fun with round one. I can’t wait to see what comes in the mail!

Olivia Barratier

My five year old son cut out Roy Orbison’s glasses. Good starting point I thought for this project. Having recently relocated from California to France, I thought the lyrics of ‘California Blue’ could weave the invisible thread of the collage.

Elena Lelea

Starter collage ready to be sent to Cristina Correa. It’s a multidimensional collage with the current theme (albeit corny) of “love to/from the universe”. I’m really curious to see how it evolves! I’m a first-time participant and enjoying it so far!

Allen Chinibi

Side A and B starter. Will both sides be worked on? Time will tell

Hannele Rubin

First time participant; we’re all on a journey, but to where and for what purpose? I decided to create a treasure map full of milestones, obstacles and challenges to see where we are all headed…Or how this might stimulate creative ideas among my crew.

The first four images are the four connected parts of the map, taped together and folded; I “aged” the paper with water and coffee grounds, and singed some of the edges so it would look more like a pirate map. The last image is the collage I just received after I had worked on it (I forgot to take the “before” photo–will remember to do that with the rest). I loved the way the man’s face became half-human, half-cyborg (for collage materials, I had attended a tattoo convention in Houston and collected dozens of wacky stickers that serve as calling cards for the artists; I’m not sure when it dawned on me that I could cut them into whatever shapes I desire–and no need for glue!). I love this project so much; the wonderful thing about collage is there are no “wrong” choices. There is only personal artistic sensibility and the “story” one is trying to tell by connecting color and imagery.

Excited to try something 3D this time around! The theme of travel/exploration started with a poem I created/found in a magazine. It seems fitting, since this collage will be roaming around to 5 different locations and experiencing it’s own adventure! Can’t wait to see where it goes. Mailed out 9/18/23 for its first trip!

Kim Breit

This is the jumping off point for my starter! Looking for a peaceful feel. Off to Carolyn and can’t wait to see her interpretation and contribution!!

Mia Gutfreund

Deirdre Colgan Jones

Charlotte Yano

I want to give my collaborators a good base, but one that is interesting and aesthetic on it’s own. I have a vintage encyclopedia set, and it happens to have quite a few maps, the world maps successfully line up with each other. This combination is the overall global map, combined with the map of average rainfall, as of 1898. The yellow straw paper I am using as a underlying border. Base substrate is 400# cold pressed watercolor, adhesive is Golden acrylic heavy body matte medium.

Katie Malone-Smith

Andrea Mullarkey

I’m using this round table collaboration as an excuse to keep security patterned envelopes out for months at a time.

I started my collage today. It’s hard not to feel hopeful at the beginning. On this, my third time, I am optimistic that lessons and experiences from the first two rounds will lead to success. Round one I wanted so so badly for the art to be “good” and beautiful. It was, too. What I saw of it anyway; none of them ever came back. The second round I just wanted to see it all the way through. And I did. Only I didn’t really like the resulting art. This time I don’t know what to hope for … but I still feel hopeful. Maybe I just want to play with materials I like and see something nice at the end. That’s a pretty good hope, and maybe also realistic.