Mixed Media Collage Painting - ALL LEVELS

This course introduces students to mixed media collage using a range of materials such as papers, magazines, paint, drawing tools, and adhesives. Students learn how to combine and layer these materials to build structured, cohesive surfaces. The class emphasizes technique, material choices, and compositional decision‑making so students leave with completed collages and a strong understanding of how to continue the process independently.

• Event location: Studio C (SH-A)
• Course ID: 83211
• Instructor: Riley Polek-Davis
• Bio: Riley A. Polek-Davis earned her MFA in Painting and Illustration from CSU Northridge in 2023. Her current paintings incorporate mixed media materials, such as oils, aged house paints, biodegradable glitter and translucent mediums to showcase glamorized elements of the body both inside and out. She finds inspiration from the phenomenon of color, surrealism, music, the human body, and the beautiful and bizarre. Along with her teaching career, she has been a live mural painter for Music & Art festivals up and down the West Coast, and an independent artist for the last 12 years. Her teaching style encourages radical freedom of expression in a fun and inclusive environment.