Cathryn Miller has been playing with paper intermittently since childhood. After post-secondary education in both Fine Art and Commercial Art, she was side-tracked into weaving for twenty years. Her award-winning fiber works are in provincial, national, and international collections.
Miller returned to playing with paper in the mid-1990s, founding Byopia Press with her husband David. Works from Byopia Press — both artist’s books and artworks — have won awards, been shown in over one hundred exhibitions (local, national, and international), and are held in more than sixty public collections, as well as in private collections worldwide.
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In the same fashion as MARBLE-OLOGY (2020), TEXT-OLOGY (2021), and SCROLL-OLOGY (2023), the February 2027 workshop will explore a particular subject, namely “glue.” NWCS Program Chair Kathryn Kim and NWCS member Colleen Monette will guide participants as they investigate a variety of adhesives and other methods of combining or fastening ephemera to create two- and three-dimensional collages. Please gather your supplies (a list of suggestions will be distributed closer to the date of the workshop) and join us on Zoom for some fast-paced and fun exercises.
Kathryn uses individually cut and pasted letters to create “eponymistic colletry,” which are artistic pieces containing poetry and/or prose that refers to or reflects the image in which the words appear. 
Colleen works with found and salvaged vintage and antique materials. She balances her time between a studio in her Magnolia home and a beautiful space at Fogue Studios and Gallery in the Georgetown neighborhood, where she teaches encaustic painting.
Growing up in the ever-changing visual landscape of the Pacific Northwest with a keen eye, a passion for narrative, a gravitation towards the darker and more subterranean aspects of the human psyche, and a fascination with paper and found objects, Melanie Reed was introduced to Surrealist art and Surrealist collage in the mid-1980s and continues to find this medium a significant channel for artistic expression. Melanie began exhibiting and selling her work in the early 1990s, creating increasingly evolving bodies of work that began with figurative narratives, progressed to visually integrated dreamscapes with intertwined figures and backgrounds, and developed to include site specific works, book art, and mail art in a variety of forms and themes.
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Fogue Studios and Gallery
