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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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Bird and flowers embroidered collage by Susana Vizcarra

Spotlight: Susana Vizcarra, Textile Artist

From her early days learning crochet and embroidery to her deeply personal quilts made from repurposed fabrics, textile artist Susana Vizcarra stitches emotion and memory into every piece. Rooted in…
Spool Party fiber art by Susan Polansky

Spotlight: Susan Polansky, Textile Artist

Through her intricate textile art designs and deeply personal storytelling, artist Susan Polansky explores emotion, memory, and the human experience. Her work blends precision with heart—drawing from life’s joys and…
I Thought You Were the Sun by Erin McCluskey Wheeler

Spotlight: Erin McCluskey Wheeler, Artist and Educator

Erin McCluskey Wheeler sees the world as a collage waiting to happen. Whether through paint, paper, or poetry, she finds meaning in what’s collected along the way, turning fragments of…
After the Rain collage by Kaci Smith

Spotlight: Kaci Smith, Mixed Media Artist

From weaving to mixed media, artist Kaci Smith finds joy in experimenting across techniques and following her creative curiosity wherever it leads. With an art journey that began in childhood…
Snakes in the Garden by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner

Spotlight: Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Embroidery Artist

Surrounded by creativity from an early age, Maggy Hiltner grew up in a family where making things was just a way of life. Today, she transforms vintage textiles and discarded…
Fabric collage by Drew Steinbrecher

Spotlight: Drew Steinbrecher, Collage, Printmaking and Fiber Artist

For Drew Steinbrecher, becoming an artist wasn’t one big “aha” moment—it was a series of small steps, experiments, and discoveries. Inspired by the beauty and chaos of urban life, Drew…
Set of four painted circles by e bond

Spotlight: e bond, Visual Artist

Step into the vibrant, idea-filled world of e bond, a multidisciplinary artist who blurs the lines between life, art, and creativity. Her work is driven by curiosity, process, and the…
Dark Tower fiber art made by Kristine Berg in 2017

Spotlight: Kristine Berg, Fiber and Costume Artist

Kristine Berg became a crafts artisan, which led her to a career of travel and living around the world to create costumes and props for movies, theatre, and film. Now,…
Waiting Outside fiber art by Lynn van Wyk

Spotlight: Lynn van Wyk, Fiber Artist

Lynn van Wyk has always found creating to be her happy place. During Covid, she explored using fabric to make art. Now she creates detailed fiber art pieces inspired by…

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