Erin McCluskey Wheeler
Saturday, September 27, 2025
10:00 am – 3:00 pm (lunch break 12:30 – 1 pm)
$210 non-member/ $195 member
$25 materials fee payable to instructor
Location: 1 Commandant’s Lane, Benicia
Level: All levels
Age minimum: 18
Minimum 6 | Maximum 10
Class Description: In this workshop with Erin you will use collage materials to create an abstracted landscape on a wood panel. By creating collage on a wood panel, you will learn gluing and finishing techniques and create a finished, ready to hang art piece. You will paint paper and use a collection of assorted handmade, marbled, painted, and found papers brought in by the instructor.
Material fee: Includes one cradled wood panel (11×14 approximately), glue, a glue brush, and a curated collection of papers. There are scissors, paint, and paint brushes available for use in class and you’re also welcome to bring your own. If you’d like to bring your own supplies from home, please do.
You are welcome to bring in a reference photo to use in creating your landscape or you can work free form and use the idea of a landscape as a jumping off point for composition and color.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Erin McCluskey Wheeler is a painter, collagist, writer, curator, and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Erin has a BA in studio art and art history from Beloit College, and an MFA from California College of the Arts in writing. Erin is a faculty member of the 92NY School of the Arts in New York City. With other nonprofits and art centers, Erin teaches collage and mixed media classes and workshops throughout the Bay Area. Erin’s collage based artwork is licensed and sold through West Elm, Minted, Target, and Samsung. She has won multiple awards for her visual art and poetry including the top prize for poetry from Northwind Arts and in 2022 was the featured cover and poster artist for Kolaj Magazine’s World Collage Day. In 2024, she published a book of her writing and photography, Dandelions, with National Monument Press. Erin has been an Artist in Residence with the City of El Cerrito, the City of Walnut Creek, and was awarded a Gallery-as-Studio Residency and solo exhibition at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She was part of the inaugural group of Bay Area Artists in Residence at Nick’s Cove in Tomales Bay in spring 2024 and her work was included in the 2024 Right Here Right Now Richmond Biennial exhibition. Erin is a co-founder and serves on the leadership team for the Visual Artists of Richmond, an artist led arts advocacy group.
Instructor website: erinmwheeler.com