Have you ever been interested in trying the art of collage? Or are you an experienced artist and want to meet other artists? Come join us for a creative fun day in a supportive and friendly environment. NWCS members have until July 9th to sign up exclusively, after which registration is open to all. We've reserved a great room at the Sunset Hills Community Clubhouse in Ballard. Only $35 per person for a full day of creating! Plus, demos, activities, a share table of collage papers and prize drawings too! Registration is now closed. Add your name to the wait list here.
Carletta Carrington Wilson’s work has been described as “decorative with a message.” In her exploration of the “text of textiles” through poetry, artist books, mixed-media collage, and installations, Wilson has evolved along a path in which cloth is a visual and literary medium. She states that, “by encountering cloth as a constellation, as a geographical expanse and translator of time, I expand the potential and possibility of engaging with fabric and its fabrication in unexpected ways.” Wilson’s collages and artists’ books can be found in the collections of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, the Allen Library at the University of Washington, the University of Puget Sound’s Collins Memorial Library, the McCabe Library – Swarthmore College, the James F. Holly Rare Books Room at the Evergreen State College, and UCLA’s libraries as part of the Judith A. Hoffberg Artists’ Books collection.
Visit her website.
Colette Fu is a Philadelphia-based visual artist who received her MFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003, and soon after began devising complex compositions that incorporate photography and pop-up paper engineering. Her pop-up books are included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, and many private and rare archive collections. Fu’s numerous awards and grants include a Forman Arts Initiative Art Works grant, Philadelphia Cultural Treasures grant, Joan Mitchell Painter’s & Sculptors Fellowship, the Meggendorfer Prize, Leeway Transformation Award, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship to China. She exhibits widely and teaches pop-up courses and community workshops internationally.
Watch Noodle Mountain unfold here: website.
Grounds for Sculpture website
AP Faust holds a BFA from Guilford College, where his 2014 Sculpture Thesis featured found object sculptures inspired by explorations in dreams, memory, and the woods of Durham and Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduating, Faust embraced collage as his primary art form, delving into surrealist explorations of the subconscious through dreams and automatism, and utilizing collage to reshape narratives through physical media. Faust approaches collage with a sculptural influence, incorporating material treatments and decollage techniques into works with paper, and incorporating collage elements into sculptural works.
Currently, Faust serves as the Operations Director at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. In this role, he curates exhibitions and programs in collaboration with various Atlanta arts organizations, educators, and artists at all stages of their careers. Notable highlights include Howard Finster’s “A Feeling Come Over Me,” as well as “SHAPE: Artworks by Women Artist-Educators” and exhibitions in collaboration with Paint Love, The Atlanta Collage Society (which Faust later joined), The Southeastern Photographic Society, and The Atlanta Printmakers Studio. His exhibitions have been featured and reviewed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Arts ATL.
Before joining Callanwolde, Faust ran his own creative services company, Adam Good Job ATL. There, he completed a variety of projects, including odd jobs, custom murals, signage, and art installations for small businesses and private clients. In 2022, Faust was part of Paint Love’s Artist Cohort, a nonprofit organization that connects artists with schools and other nonprofits to lead trauma-informed and holistic arts and mindfulness activities for children of all ages. Collage often serves as his medium of choice in these creative group sessions, helping to unlock creativity and expression. Outside of his professional work, he and his wife are starting a garden just south of Atlanta, where they reside with their two dogs.
On the first Saturday of February 2026, live from Atlanta via Zoom, Faust will lead Northwest Collage Society members in an online workshop. Additional details will be provided via email to NWCS members.
Visit AP's website.
Danielle Krysa (Canada) has a BFA in Visual Arts, and a post-grad in graphic design. She is the writer behind the contemporary art site The Jealous Curator (est. 2009), and she has curated art shows all over North America. Krysa is also an artist herself, and her mixed media collage work is held in private collections worldwide. She is the author of several art books, including “Creative Block,” “Your Inner Critic Is A Big Jerk,” “A Big Important Art Book - Now with Women,” and two children’s books: “How To Spot An Artist” and “Art and Joy.” Danielle has had the great pleasure of speaking at TEDx, PIXAR, and Creative Mornings, and she was interviewed in series of video segments on www.oprah.com about breaking through creative blocks and self-doubt.
Visit Danielle's Instagram.
Emily Somoskey is a 2-D mixed media artist and painter living in Walla Walla, Washington. Her work explores the complexity of perception through the layered use of oil paint and collaged photographic imagery. Somoskey’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, most recently at Chatwin Arts in Seattle and Hanson Howard Gallery in Ashland, Oregon. She pursued a BA in Art Education at The University of Akron and her MFA at Michigan State University. Somoskey is currently an Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Her mixed-media paintings use a balance between representation and abstraction to explore the ways we simultaneously experience physical and mental space. In combining photographic imagery with the language of abstract painting, she weaves together moments of clarity and ambiguity that both articulate and disrupt, as well as complicate, a singular understanding of the work, akin to our own perceptions of the world. Along with the discourse of historical and contemporary methods of image-making, her work branches into areas such as psychology, anthropology, material culture, humanist geography, cosmology, and the natural sciences. In reaching into these varied aspects of our world, Somoskey’s work reflects the complexity of what it means to live in our current world.
Visit Emily's website.
Shoreline Conference Center
18560 1st Ave. NE Shoreline, WA 98155
Meetings are held in the Mt Rainier Room
at the North end of the building. There is ample parking outside the North entrance door.
Join us at 10 am for Meet & Greet before the program begins at 10:30 am.
