There is something enticing about a cabinet and a shelf. A collection of life’s fragments arranged and re-configured into some kind of biography that represents a life. Or secrets and dates jumbled into an altered reality that you wish could be true. The epitome of time made visible. In this assemblage class, you will work in 3-dimensional layers to create a collage in the round, much like a stage. Students will be provided with one wooden box to[image: Inline image 1] fill with objects and images and will have the opportunity to build their own wooden box as well. Various techniques will be shown including creating textural surfaces, photo copy transfer, printmaking techniques, and encaustic You need to bring a collection of materials that are meaningful to you or create objects that would be significant and carefully arrange them on the shelves in a kind of three dimensional collage. Examples: small eggs, old coins, feathers, doll clothes, shells, bits of old metal crushed by cars, clay figures, keys, marbles, old letters, old photographs, dried flowers, maps, teeth, skulls, bones, string, bee hives, twigs, old toys, tiny dolls, hair, small bottles etc. Bring any of the above and more…. REGISTER HERE <http://www.feastarts.com/classes/1211-assemblage-class-larry-calkins> -- *feast arts center * *1402 S. 11th St.* *Tacoma, WA 98405* *feastarts.com <http://feastarts.com>*