Learn To Make Collage And Then Immediately Give It Away: A Workshop by Mac Premo

A series of workshops hosted by Brooklyn artist Mac Premo and presented by The Invisible Dog Art Center as part as a residency at Atelier Jolie

Of all the art practices, collage is perhaps the most democratic: there is no institution famous for its instruction; there are no ordained rules from an art elite. Its just rip shit up, glue shit down, seek beauty.

But even with its lack of formality rule, there are craft considerations that can transform the experience. Most notably, paper collage (papier collé if you want to be fancy) tends to wrinkle and air bubble when glue meets paper.

In this workshop, Premo shares some basic techniques on how to get a collage to adhere clean and flat. Real handsome like.

But here’s the catch: then you have to give your art away.

We can call it a simple act of sharing, or intentional defiance of art-market driven commodification. But in plain terms, it means that you’ll be making collage postcards.

Here’s how the workshop works:

You bring paper collage material that you’d like to collage with. Premo will augment our collage material with portions of his extensive catalogue of crap (1960’s magazines, old baseball cards, origami paper, discarded packaging, etc). Using brayers and clamping, together you will create finished collages that have a sturdy, flat, and wrinkle free finish. Each collage will be created on a stamped 4” x 6” postcard that you’ll address and once the collage is dry, Premo will mail. Postage included. Boom.

Make art, give art.

Very limited number of participants, selling out fast. 

Mac Premo makes art, commercials and films. Born in Washington DC in 1973, Mac graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995 and moved to New York that same year. His films and art have exhibited worldwide, including The Brooklyn Museum, the Ringling Museum, PS1 MoMA, The Invisible Dog Art Center and The New Museum. Mac has won 13 New York Emmy® Awards for his video and animation work, including awards for best commercial, photography, set design and best PSA. Sometimes he writes and performs one-man plays. Mac is a NYFA Fellow, a recent fellow of The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany, and lives in Brooklyn with his tremendous wife and two totally radical kids. And also their dog, Philomena.

instagram: @macpremo
website: www.macpremo.com