Mixing the Mediums Workshop An Intro to Assemblage and Mixed

Mixing the Mediums Workshop
An Intro to Assemblage and Mixed Media
With Award winning Artists Steve Martin & Paula Estey
Week One
Steve and Paula will give you a hands-on demonstration of more than TEN assemblage and mixed media
techniques, from gluing large objects, working with tissue paper, transferring on ANY surface, to constructing
with metal. You will acquire all necessary information in each medium to begin using these fascinating and
repertoire-building techniques into your own work! It’s informative and fun! During our first session, you will also
have time to plan out your project, discuss product you need to collect during the week with Steve or Paula,
and leave with a solid understanding of the project you will create during Week Two.
Week Two
This is where the rubber meets the road. You will be working on your individual projects, with assistance from
Steve and Paula. We will provide an overview of techniques, help you mix and match the techniques
conducive to accomplishing your desired effects, and provide you with all glues and glue applications
necessary.
Saturday, September 19 & September 26
9:00am – 12:00pm
Members $ 100, Non-members $ 120
Cost includes most materials needed, except those listed below
All levels welcome
Additional items to bring:
Apron, Objects you would like to work with, Sketch pad, Notebook and pen
AND
Inspiration: Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Basquiat
About the Instructors
Steve Martin "By incorporating in many of my pieces antique photographs found in bins and boxes, I am giving
new life to people long forgotten by friends, family and society. They have in a sense not only been reclaimed
but are indeed reclaiming a place in the existing world, not to be forgotten again. Of course, if the stuff doesn’t
sell, and I throw it away, well…I guess they were reincarnated with just plain old bad karma—but at least I tried."
Steve’s work resides in the corporate collections of Blue Suede Shoots. a movie production company in Rome,
Italy, The Growth Coach Management Consultants in Boston, MA. Kodiac Venture Capitol and in private
collections in Chicago and Boston.
Paula Estey makes art in many different mediums, including mixed media painting, public art, installation,
poetry and performance. She has been developing herself as a dedicated, passionate professional artist for
more than 30 years, in all types of venues.
Estey has taught intuitive art classes for more than a dozen years, helping people to embrace their inherent
creativity while guiding them in how to deepen as fine artists. Many of her students now show throughout New
England.
She was the Artist in Residence at Unity on the River Spiritual Center in Amesbury, MA, from 2001 to 2011,
creating numerous art and spirit workshops, classes and special events for this thriving community. She founded
and managed their gallery for eight years. She created many site-specific works and installations specifically for
the center.
Estey has now dedicated herself full time to her own artistic voice through painting and poetry and
performance. Paula is the owner of Paula Estey Gallery, 3 Harris Street, Newburyport.
http://www.paulaesteygallery.com
Company Man by Steve Martin
Thoroughbreds by Paula Estey
(side view of Company Man)
Watershed by Paula Estey
Newburyport Art Association.65 Water Street.Newburyport.MA.01950.www.newburyportart.org.978.465.8769