Event – Detail

This guided collage workshop will focus on how we can use collage to tell stories visually. Together we will explore materials to create collages that uncover stories of the past, present, and future. Supplies are included; however participants are encouraged to bring images, ephemera, and any collage or scrapbooking projects they are working on.

Please note that this workshop is being offered twice on Saturday, November 2. This registration is for the afternoon session (1:00PM-2:30PM). 

Jillian M Rock is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. Rock has been an Artist in Residence at The Museum of Motherhood in St. Pete’s FL, a Feminist in Residence at Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ, as well as a concurrent Risography Resident at Print St. Pete’s. She is an alumni of the Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program. Rock has served as an inaugural member of the Board of Directors at the Newark Print Shop, where she developed her passion for community programming and outreach through printmaking. She has taught at Studio Montclair, The Newark Print Shop, The Yard Art School at The Montclair Museum of Art, as well as freelance workshops and classes.  She is the owner of Rock Press, a Black woman run printing press aimed at amplifying access to the creation and dissemination of artists’ books, printed matter, and programming.

Rock is currently a faculty member at Fleisher Art Memorial and has most recently completed teaching residencies with The Print Center and served as the Education Coordinator at Da Vinci Art Alliance. She was a recipient of the Bartol/Marrazzo Teaching Artist Micro-Grant, a member of Philadelphia Collageworks, a fellow with Mural Arts Fellowship for Black Artist, and a 2024 Artist In Recent Resident with Cherry Street Pier.

Storytelling Through Collage is presented as part of Cull, Cut, Craft: The Legacy & Practice of Collage, a four-month celebration highlighting contemporary local, national and international collage artists who are at the forefront of the medium and exploring the past, present and future of collage as an art form. Cull, Cut, Craft is sponsored by The Roger W. Moss Symposium Fund, Poor Richard's Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Colleé, and Blick.