$60

Tickets on sale Tuesday, April 9 at noon ET.

This 3 hour workshop will give participants an introduction to using maps in collage and mixed-media art by looking at the work of other artists and by creating work of their own. Through quick exercises focusing on both the geographical context and the design elements of maps, they will discover how to use them as source material for both abstract and representational work. No previous collage experience is necessary.

Participants should bring scissors and/or Xacto knife; cutting board (or cardboard); glue stick; tape; Bristol paper/cardstock/anything similar; pencils/pens. Participants are welcome to bring maps, atlases, etc. that they are willing to cut up, but the instructor will provide plenty

Sian Robertson grew up in South West Wales, in the UK. She received a BEd (Hons) from Rolle College in Exmouth, Devon and went on to work in the union and non-profit sectors in both Bristol and London until moving to America in 1992. After seven years in San Francisco she settled on Cape Cod running retail stores and working in an art gallery in Provincetown. Robertson has never received any formal art training but has been cutting and pasting, amongst many other creative pursuits, since she was about eight.

In 2023 Robertson was the recipient of the Juror’s Award at the International Society of Experimental Artists’s annual show, Innovations, held at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. Robertson’s Postage Portraits were featured in Uppercase Magazine in 2015, and her Map Sculptures in the same publication in 2020. Robertson teaches classes at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, and at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.