WORKSHOPS
Introduction to CollageSome supplies will be provided by instructor. Students are also encouraged to bring their own collage materials if desired.
Teaching artist Pam Toll invites you to learn basic techniques for making collages through making 5-10 collage portraits. This workshop is a good introduction to collage materials, adhesives, transfer techniques, pattern making and design. It will be of interest to beginners as well as students who already have experience making collage.
Collage compositions find inspiration in quilts, illuminated texts, early tribal and folk clothing, old, discarded objects, fibers and papers. Collage art works are sometimes aesthetic, utilitarian, communicative; or all of these things at once.
In this class students will use their knowledge of design principles in a process similar to painting—creating artistic statements of color, shape, texture, and line with a multitude of media. Emphasis will be on making the different materials work cohesively to convey an idea.
Supplied by the instructor:
• scissors
• painting tape
• adhesive
• brushes and magazines and other collage elements
• tracing paper
• cardboard
• wood supports
Student Supply List:
• pencil, sharpener
• eraser
• brush for glue
• colored pencils or watercolors or acrylic paints
• sketchbook
• 3-5 small grounds for collage like canvas, watercolor paper, cardboard or panel
• exacto knife and blades if preferred to scissors
• (optional) magazines or other found collage elements.
About the Instructor
Pam is a Wilmington-based painter and mixed media artist, and works at Acme Art Studios which she co-founded in 1991. Four years after a life changing painting experience at an international artist colony St. Joakim Osogovoski, Macedonia, she partnered with Gayle Tustin and Dick Roberts to establish No Boundaries International Art Colony on Bald Head Island, NC. The artist residency program’s mission is to lay aside national boundaries in favor of cross-cultural exchange. Toll has participated in 18 Artist residencies abroad since 1994, the latest in Certaldo, Italy.
As a professor in studio art, Toll led study abroad trips to Macedonia and Ireland. In 2017, she led a student painted mural at the Good Shepherd Center in Wilmington, NC. In 2014, Toll designed ten stained glass windows for B’nai Israel Synagogue in Wilmington, NC and, in 2019, designed doors for the Synagogue’s Ark. Cypress, a painting commissioned for the city of Clinton, was installed in 2025. Pam retired from UNC Wilmington faculty in 2026, after decades of teaching.
Toll’s work is represented in numerous museum collections around the world along with many private collections in the US and abroad. Through the years, she has also created or loaned work for 17 film productions.
- Date: Sunday, March 22
- Time: 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Art in Bloom Gallery classroom
- Instructor: Pam Toll
