Surrealism and Translucency in Collage

Holly King: Studio Askance

Saturday, June 14 and Sunday, June 15, 2025

Saturday: 2:00pm – 6:00 pm
Sunday: 10:30 am – 3:30 pm

(Includes 30 minute lunch break)

$240 non-member/$225 member
$20 materials fee

Location: Arts Benicia Annex

Levels: All
Age minimum: 18+
Minimum 4 | Maximum 10

Class Description: In this class students will explore the concepts of surrealism and translucency in collage. On the first day we will explore glues, mediums and techniques for making low tech transfer images. A variety of papers and textiles will be utilized to make transparencies. On the second day, students will utilize the transparencies prepared in the first session to make collages honoring the concept of surrealism:

“Surrealism can be defined as a practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations.”

SPECIAL NOTES: The instructor will provide a variety of paper, mixed media materials and adhesives. Students are encourage to bring their own magazine images to be used in their work or to be shared with others. There will be a 15 minute break on Saturday and 30 min break for lunch on Sunday.

Bring your own snacks and lunch as there is no food available in immediate vicinity.

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Holly King has a Masters Degree in Speech and Communication Studies from San Francisco State University and a 1/2 of an MFA in Glass from Rochester Institute of Technology. She taught Speech and Communication at Portland Community College for 18 years. She currently resides in Vallejo California. She has participated in a handful of group shows including at Benicia Arts, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, The Falkirk Cultural Center, Las Laguna Gallery and Chroma Gallery.

As a flower child of the 60’s growing up next door to Janis Joplin I was not only imprinted by the processes and works of my artist parents (Mary King and Ken King ) but by the mixed media work of Dickens 44 Bascom. As a child I was drawn into his fantastical worlds which he created with toys, bling, coins and glue. I was also fascinated by the life in pond water viewed through my grade school microscope. Cell life glittered there much like the jewels on Dickens car but in a more abstract manner. I find myself a maximalists. I can’t help but be interested in everything from the complexities of political chaos to the minutia of cell biology.

Instructor website: studioaskance.com

Surrealism and Translucency in Collage

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