Keep Swinging: Collage Piñata Party on World Collage Day with Torea Frey

This event will center around a custom art piñata, filled with ephemera and collage fodder, that participants will bust open and then make art with. The aim is to cultivate radical joy and celebrate the collage community by bringing people together in generating new work from an unexpected source. What will you make when you encounter materials different from your preferred practice? What is the role of joy in your creative practice? Part exercise in letting go, part community gathering, Keep Swinging is an opportunity to stretch your creativity -- and have fun doing it.

Supplies are provided, however you are welcome to bring your favorite collage tools!

About Ticketing

Collage-O-Rama workshops are offered at flexible ticket prices from $5 up to the maximum suggested donation.

3 free, no-questions-asked reservations are available for each session as well. Use the promo code GRACE for this option.

Advance ticketing helps us plan capacity but for this event you can pay upon arrival at the venue.

About your instructor, Torea Frey:

Torea Frey is a mixed-media/collage artist from the Portland metro area who lives with a dynamic disability and makes art centering on language, identity, and individual + cultural memory. She embraces the liberatory potential of radical joy in her art practice and in the communities she engages with; you can find her online at toreafrey.com, or follow her on Instagram @toreajade.

About Collage-O-Rama

This workshop is part of Collage-O-Rama, a month-long celebration of collage presented by Special Agent Collage Collective. Festivities include an exhibition of 1000+ pieces of collage art, workshops from PNW-based artists, and free drop-in opportunities for art-making. Check out our other events and tell your friends!

About World Collage Day

World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the second saturday of May initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018. Ric Kasini Kadour, the editor of , writes, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honour this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.”

Getting there / Parking
Paid street parking. There are also paid lots within a 3-minute walk to the venue. There is one disabled parking spot in front of the venue.

The nearest bust stop is Number 250 at 2nd Ave & Bell, served by bus routes 111, 113, 162, 177, and 212.

Host or Publisher Andrea Lewicki