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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 Endura

Spotlight: Marie Bergstedt, Mixed Media Artist

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...

Barbara De Pirro Sea Anenome Detail

Spotlight: Barbara De Pirro, Mixed Media Artist

Barbara De Pirro translates organic forms and patterns found in nature into sculptural works of art, often using reclaimed plastics. Because she is using the materials for a new purpose,...

Larry Calkins School

Spotlight: Larry Calkins, Mixed Media Artist

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,...

Mixed Media Collage Inspiration

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Textile piece

Spotlight: Cas Holmes, Textile Artist

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....

Hardware Cloth Quilt

Spotlight: Libby Williamson, Fiber Artist

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,...

Bird quilt made with TAP by Lesley Riley

Spotlight: Lesley Riley, Mixed Media Artist

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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Solstice weaving by Krystyna Sadej

Spotlight: Krystyna Sadej, Tapestry and Mixed Media Artist

Krystyna Sadej learned to weave as a young adult and found her passion. She now creates a variety of work reusing materials to communicate and emphasize the urgency of our…
Morning Maidens by Maggie Dillon

Spotlight: Maggie Dillon, Textile Portrait Artist

Maggie Dillon designs portraits inspired by the everyday life in the 1940's. The textile art pieces are created by cutting each piece of fabric by hand and layering them to…
Murphy, a commissioned piece by Barbara Yates Beasley

Spotlight: Barbara Yates Beasley, Collage Artist

Barbara Yates Beasley went to a class for animal portraits and found her niche. She now does commission work for clients creating brightly colored animal fiber art pieces. Her favorite…
The Company You Keep art by Mabela

Spotlight: Mabelin Castellanos, Textile Artist

"Mabelin Castellanos is a Cuban fiber artist based in Miami. She interprets life as seen from her window, often made from scrap fabrics. Her practice is marked by self-reflection, pleasant…
Field of Poppies art quilt by Sandy Moore

Spotlight: Sandy Moore, Mixed Media Collage Artist

Sandy Moore is a mixed media collage artist who creates portraits, landscapes and beautiful flowers with fabrics. When she works with fabric, she feels connected to all of the women…
Springtime in the Rockies fiber art by Cynthia Jarest

Spotlight: Cynthia Jarest, Fiber and Multimedia Artist

Cynthia Jarest discovered art quilts and that opened a new world for her. She creates intricate and colorful pieces inspired by her hikes and walks in the mountains nearby. Through…
A Woman's Complexity quilt by Ronni Hunter

Spotlight: Ronni Hunter, Mixed Media Textile Artist

Ronni Hunter is a mixed media textile artist who creates pieces that tell a story and are a bit mysterious. She uses a journal to try out ideas and a…
Renewal by Lulu Moonwood Murakami

Spotlight: Lulu Moonwood Murakami, Mixed Media Artist

Meet Lulu Moonwood Murakami, mixed media artist. You'll find her creating with paper clay or making an art quilt with a variety of textiles. She manipulates fabrics into 3D pieces…
A Lesson from the Birds by Blair Treuer

Spotlight: Blair Treuer, Textile Artist

Self taught textile artist Blair Treuer listens to her heart as she creates her portraits intuitively. Inspired by her family, she uses bits of fabric to communicate the images that…

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