Sunday, November 15th | 10am - 1pm
Sunday, December 20th | 10am - 1pm
Teens+ | $15
Come make some art with us! This relaxed, three hour collage workshop at ReCreative Denver is led by artist and ReCreative team member Lily Lockwood. You’ll dig into ReCreative’s ever-changing stash of reclaimed papers and materials to create playful, expressive collages. Lily will share tips on layering, composition, and letting your intuition lead, but the focus is on experimenting, having fun, and seeing where the materials take you.
No experience needed—everything is provided, but you’re welcome to bring things from home. Perfect for beginners, seasoned artists, and anyone looking to make something cool with good people.
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Check out Lily’s work on her Instagram!
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Saturday, November 21st | 1pm - 3pm
$55 | 16+
How much can you disrupt an image before it becomes something else?
Inspired by the visual distortions in her current Portal Gallery exhibition Mirror Logic, artist Carrie Shiffrin will lead a hands-on collage workshop exploring the space between recognition and abstraction. Starting with a photographic image, participants will experiment with different ways of taking it apart and putting it back together. Impose a grid and rotate, or rearrange the pieces. Remove recognizable elements and replace them with something unexpected. Work with a friend to weave two photographs together or swap sections and see what new image emerges.
The workshop draws on Shiffrin’s own process of using reflection, repetition, fragmentation, and distortion to push familiar images away from immediate understanding while leaving enough intact for us to keep looking and interpreting. Participants will be encouraged to invent their own rules, follow unexpected results, and discover how small changes can transform the way we see an image.
No previous art experience is necessary. Bring a photograph or image you’d like to transform, or choose from images provided at the workshop. All materials and tools are provided, and all experience levels are welcome.
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Carrie Shiffrin is a Denver-based artist whose practice includes painting, collage and sculptural artist books. She received her BFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2009 and her MAT in Art Education from the School of Visual Arts in 2012. After nearly a decade teaching visual art in K-12 schools in New York and Denver, she left the classroom to focus on her studio practice. Her first solo exhibition, There’s No Place Like Time, was presented at Bell Projects in Denver in 2025. Her work has also been exhibited in galleries across the Denver area including Art Gym Denver, Edge Gallery, D’Art Gallery, and SeeSaw Gallery and archival prints of her paintings are carried by Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station in Denver. Mirror Logic is her second solo exhibition.
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