Join me at 92NY for a two-day in-person workshop exploring landscape and collage through a range of materials. More info and sign up here
Richmond Open Studios invites you to check out artwork made by Richmond artists at partner venues and in their own spaces.
Saturday 8/15 find me showing sellable work with Sadiqeh Agah, Kaci Smith, and e Bond at 530 36th Street at our very own backyard pop up
Sunday 8/16 visit me in my studio at 855 Parr Blvd, Richmond for more of an artist at work experience
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All my tips and tricks for mounting and framing your works on paper with store bought frames and wood panels.
More info here: https://www.hisawyer.com/the-richmond-art-center/schedules/activity-set/1877423?source=semesters
Sign up with Case for Making for this online workshop (includes 30 day access to the recording)
Dorothy Hood was born in 1918 and spent her life in both Mexico and Texas. Her large abstract paintings are full of hard and soft edges, moments where the paint pools and gathers and places where the paint makes crisp lines and angles. Her colors are bold and inspired by the full range of colors found in both Mexico and Texas. With watercolors, we will play with some of Dorothy’s shapes by creating hard edges with tape, letting the watercolors be soft and blend, and create dynamic shapes with layered colors. This is a really fun class to experiment with abstract shapes and learn new ways of approaching applying paint to paper.
This one hour class will introduce the absolute beginner to working with collage. Registration with 92NY (all class times on their website are Eastern time). This class is taught by several instructors both in person in New York and online with me.
This link will take you to the page where all the Collage for Absolute Beginners classes are listed. Please click on Available Classes and scroll through (you might have to click on Load More) to find my name (and not the other Erin who I am sure is GREAT but is not me) to register for my class
Class link: https://www.92ny.org/class/collage-mixed-media-for-absolute-beginners#
This part art history and part making class is a great way to learn about the large world of collage and assemblage. Students will be introduced to a new artists’ work each week and then have time to respond to that artists’ work with their own interpretation and ideas. Lively critiques and discussions in each class. Register online with 92NY (`all classes listed on their website in Eastern time)
https://www.92ny.org/class/collage-then-and-now#
Student Explorations in Collage
Exhibition: June 24 – August 15, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 1pm-3pm | Learn more…
Location: Community Gallery
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
The galleries will be closed Saturday, July 4, 2026.
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Cut and Color brings together works by students from artist Erin McCluskey Wheeler’s collage classes at Richmond Art Center. The exhibition showcases how painted papers, found materials, and everyday objects spark playful experimentation and vibrant visual storytelling.
Learn how to transform a drawing or photograph into a relief print in this fun intro to block printing workshop. A great refresher course if you haven’t printed in a while and open to brand new beginners.
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This workshop combines art history with hands-on exploration in mixed media and collage. In this workshop, we’ll focus on Sonia Delaunay, whose vibrant, abstract compositions were influenced by the traditional quilts she encountered in her Russian childhood. A prolific and innovative artist, Delaunay expanded her creativity beyond painting and collage into fashion, interior design, graphic arts, book illustration, and decorative arts.
Sign up with Case for Making for this online class (includes 30 day recording access)
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Join me in the Art Room at Case for Making for a workshop using painted paper and found paper to explore abstract collage. If you have collage materials or old artwork to cut up, please bring it along but we will also be making painted paper and students can find wonderful images, colors, and textures to use in my community collage material pile. A great class to try out abstract collage and paint in combination.
Join me online with Case for Making for a workshop exploring painted paper and collage.
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) grew up in the Bay Area and his art practice was forever inspired by San Francisco’s unique geography and colors. He’s known for his flattened and stacked color landscapes and cityscapes. Diebenkorn worked out a lot of his ideas for paintings through collage. Using his paintings and collages as inspiration, we’ll make our own abstracted landscape collages. We’ll cut and curate our colors from a range of collage materials and think about color order and composition in our collages.
Register with Marin MOCA for this one day, everything included workshop where you will make a finished piece of landscape inspired collage. More info here >>
Join me in the Art Room next door to Case for Making for an afternoon of monoprinting with gelli plates. No experience necessary to try out this fun and experimental mark making process. Register with Case for Making: https://caseformaking.com/pages/cfm-art-room
Image: papers made by artist friend Hannah Hunter with a gelli plate
Register with mighty mighty studio here
In connection with my show on view at mighty mighty, we will explore working with magazine images and watercolor
Join me online with Case for Making for a look at the work of San Francisco artist, Rex Ray. We will start by painting paper and exploring Rex’s shapes and layers in our collages.
Sign up with Case for Making: https://caseformaking.com/pages/workshops
This part art history and part making class is a great way to learn about the large world of collage and assemblage. Students will be introduced to a new artists’ work each week and then have time to respond to that artists’ work with their own interpretation and ideas. Lively critiques and discussions in each class. Register online with 92NY (`all classes listed on their website in Eastern time) and at this direct class link here >>
Save the date for an exhibit opening at mighty mighty gallery & studio of a whole new collection of my car paintings (collage + paint)
To celebrate my new collection of vintage car ad paintings, I’ll be offering an online workshop with Case for Making on combining paint and vintage imagery
Sign up here: https://caseformaking.com/products/paint-vintage-magazines-with-erin-mccluskey-wheeler
register here with Arts Benicia
Create your own shadow boxes and dioramas inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell and Betye Saar. We will look at the work of Cornell and Saar for inspiration and ideas and use a range of materials to create personal and magical artworks. You will learn assemblage and basic sculptural techniques to create pieces that are dream-like miniature tableaux. We will experiment with scale and use a range of found materials, collage materials, and boxes to create tiny worlds. The boxes will be painted and collaged before we add our objects to them.
Registration opens soon with Case for Making: https://caseformaking.com/pages/workshops
In this workshop we’ll look at the work of Geta Bratescu and explore line and shape with collage and paint. Join live or watch the recording.
Learn how to transform a drawing or photograph into a relief print in this fun intro to block printing workshop. A great refresher course if you haven’t printed in a while.
https://caseformaking.com/products/block-printing-with-erin-mccluskey-wheeler
Sign up with Case for Making for this online class - join live or watch the recording (access for 30 days). A great class to try out abstract collage and paint in combination.
https://caseformaking.com/products/found-and-painted-paper-collage-with-erin-mccluskey-wheeler
Register with mighty mighty studio here
With her beautiful use of color and shapes, Ukrainian / French artist, Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), created paintings, collages, fabric designs, and theatre designs that sought to capture the magic of light. In this collage workshop, we will play with paper in bold colors, using strong contrasts, and a wide range of geometric shapes to create collages that feel energetic and bright. Open to all levels, this workshop is a great opportunity to “self-recycle” by bringing in your old artwork practice pages or other papers you have at home to transform through collage.
Join me at Case for Making for a workshop exploring painted paper and collage.
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was born in San Francisco and his art practice was forever inspired by San Francisco’s unique geography and colors. He’s known for his flattened and stacked color landscapes and cityscapes. Diebenkorn worked out a lot of his ideas for paintings through collage. Using his paintings and collages as inspiration, we’ll make our own abstracted landscape collages. We’ll cut and curate our colors from a range of collage materials and think about color order and composition in our collages.
Register here with Case for Making, San Francisco >Case for Making, San Francisco >>
This is an online workshop held via Zoom with Case for Making
Tomie Ohtake (1913 - 2005) was a Japanese Brazilian artist who was very interested in abstraction and ways to unsee images in her paintings. She became an important part of the geometric abstraction movement in Brazil and her work was full of color and organic shapes. In the 1960s, she experimented with creating small collage studies of ripped paper and then making a painting from these collages. In the 1970s, she started cutting her collage papers with scissors and moving to brighter, more saturated colors.
In this workshop, we will learn more about Tomie Ohtake’s work and create a series of small collage studies using magazines, catalogs, and printed images. We’ll experiment with translating one of our collages into a watercolor, letting the shapes and colors in our collage inform our painting. Register here >>
Join me for a free adult art workshop at the Westside branch of the Richmond Library (Point Richmond). Open to all levels, all materials provided. No registration.
Register here with Richmond Art Center >>
This hybrid (in-person and online) 6 week class blends art history and hands-on studio work, focusing on how artists use collage to tell stories about people and places. Two lecture sessions (via zoom), rich with visuals and resources, will introduce artists whose work centers on two key themes:
1. Using the materials of the world as art materials
2. Exploring identity, memory, and place through collage
Each lecture will introduce a diverse mix of contemporary and historical artists to spark inspiration and expand your understanding of narrative in collage.
This is an online workshop held via Zoom with Case for Making
Howardena Pindell is an American artist known for her densely textured mixed media paintings as well as her groundbreaking video work, “Free, White and 21.” Howardena’s work pushes at the boundaries of what paintings are supposed to be through abstraction and with a huge range of materials. In 1979, Howardena was in a terrible car accident and lost a lot of her memories. She started her Autobiography series using postcards of places she’d traveled to (but could no longer remember), cutting these apart and filling in the gaps with paint. In this workshop, we will learn more about Howardena’s decades long art career and use her Autobiography series as a jumping off point for our own explorations of collage and paint. By cutting apart and painting the spaces in between an image, we will get to really play with color and mimicking shapes with paint. Register here >>
This is an online workshop held via Zoom with Case for Making
Before we get started, we’ll look at the work on two contemporary British artists - John Piper and David Tress - who use collage materials as blocks of color and texture in their landscape work. We’ll then get started with a wonderfully fun and quick collage process using torn scrap paper. We’ll make several quick collages thinking more about texture and line than about color. Once we’ve built up a base layer of collage, we’ll paint on top of the paper with watercolor and ink, using both brushes and unconventional tools to make a variety of marks. Our finished pieces will be full of texture and depth. Register here >>
