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Mixed Media

Category: <span>Mixed Media</span>

Mixed media artists explore – and sometimes burst through – boundaries of traditional painting, drawing, photography, collage. Their sketchbooks  audition layers as well as demonstrate how different materials interact on a small scale. Our mixed media stories can inspire you to try new media in your next project.

Collage Art

Mixed Media Artists

Marie Bergstedt is a fiber artist whose work defies traditional categories. Always telling a story with her pieces, she uses whatever materials and techniques best tell the story. And there...

Finding inspiration in the world around him, Larry Calkins creates art that provokes laughter and emotion. In his hand-built studio/home, and sometimes outside it, he works with paint, fiber, metal,...

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To explore Cas Holmes' work, you have to engage with layers - layers of fabric, paper, paint, ephemera and stitch that bring the often overlooked to the front of mind....

Growing up with artists as parents, Libby Williamson explored many ways of creating, and that is reflected in her fiber art today. With complex layers of fabric, paint, dye, print,...

With an artist inside waiting for release, Lesley Riley's imagination collects and combines words and images. Then she sets them free. From fiber to collage to painting to cyanotype to...

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I Do Not Say You Are Lying by Robin L. Bernstein

Spotlight: Robin L Bernstein, Artist

Robin Bernstein creates intricate art by cutting designs out of plywood, covering them with a beeswax mixture and pressing thousands of tiny cut pieces of colored string into the wax. Each…
Kinaalda collage art by Marie Danger Kare

Spotlight: Marie Danger Kare, Maker and Writer

Marie Danger Kare creates mixed-media collage using found papers, photographs, and textiles which she hand-embroiders using yarns she hand-spins on supported spindles. She also makes her own recycled paper and…
Mirror of the Soul fiber art by Mirjam Pet-Jacobs

Spotlight: Mirjam Pet-Jacobs, Mixed Media Artist

Mirjam Pet-Jacobs creates mixed-media art, including fiber, inspired by things she notices in society or things happening around her. Working in a series, you'll find Mirjam creating wall hangings, but…
Fiber art piece depicting a person and a vase by Phong Lai

Spotlight: Phong Lai, Reclaimed Natural Fiber Artist

Phong Lai considers himself a maker. Using reclaimed natural fibers in his work, he transforms upcycled textiles with traditional techniques of patchwork, quilting, hand stitching, embroidery, mending and needle weaving…
Sunset by Astrid Mussi

Spotlight: Astrid Mussi, Artist

Astrid Mussi finds inspiration for her work from everywhere, especially the nature in Southern California. She now works with paper and thread to create her unique pieces of art. Along…
Yellow and teal fiber art piece by Millicent Kennedy

Spotlight: Millicent Kennedy, Visual Artist

Millicent Kennedy’s practice is interested in how we archive a physical world in flux. Through skills both laborious and ancient including book and box making, natural dye, and hand stitching,…