World Collage Day Workshop & Celebration

In this hands-on 2-hour workshop, facilitator MaryHope Lee will guide participants through a collective memory mapping experience using the art of collage. Together, we’ll explore personal stories, shared histories and future dreams...Transforming paper fragments into new possibilities.

World Collage Day is an international celebration launched by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, and we’re excited to bring the spirit of this global creative movement to South Phoenix.

Whether you’re an experienced artist or just collage-curious, this space is for you. Come make something meaningful, meet your neighbors and create in community.

Saturday, May 9
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Location:
Black River House
6828 S. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85042
(Inside Red Velvet Bakery)

Meet Your Facilitator: MaryHope Whitehead Lee
maryhope|whitehead|lee is a Phoenix-based, interdisciplinary collagist whose work is often political and sometimes whimsical.

Since 2017, she has created over a half-dozen bodies of work addressing family violence, migration, housing and food insecurity, celebrating Frida Kahlo, and hummingbirds.

Her art has appeared in a variety of journals and magazines, including Superstition Review, Politics in Collage, PoetryXCollage, among others; and featured on the covers of decomp, From THE NEW WORLD/Desde EL NUEVO MUNDO, and subsuelo/subsoil. Her work has been exhibited in Phoenix at Raíz Gallery, ASU’s downtown campus, Songbird Coffee and Tea House, First Studio Gallery, The Tolleson Public Library, and The Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans, as well as a number of virtual galleries. In 2022 and 2024, she received an Artist Opportunity Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts to support her collage practice, and a 2025 Artist to Work Grant from the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.

Your Venue

Black River House is a Sankofa-inspired arts and media space located on the South side of Phoenix, Arizona, and available Tuesday-Friday for co-working and art gallery visits. Event rentals and group visits are available by request.

This venue and this event are stewarded by Black River Life, a nonprofit creative studio dedicated to Black migration storytelling in service of narrative repair. All are welcome. Learn more about our work at www.blackriver.life.

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