Saturday, June 6, 2026

Thank you to everyone who joined artist Bruce Helander for this hands-on introduction to the art of collage.

Participants received individualized instruction while exploring paper selection, cutting techniques, composition, and the materials used to create an original paper collage. The workshop also included an overview of collage history and its continued importance in contemporary art.

A portion of the workshop proceeds supported the mission of the Center for Creative Education.

The class is led by Bruce Helander, who is the former Provost of the Rhode Island School of Design, a former White House Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and a member of the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, as well as a former Board Member and current Educational Services Advisory Committee member of the Center for Creative Education, and a contributor to The New Yorker. He received a BFA and MFA in painting and studied at Yale and Harvard. He is a past recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium’s award for Professional Achievement in the Arts. His work is represented in over fifty permanent public collections including the Guggenheim, Whitney, and Metropolitan Museums. His collage work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker magazine, among others. He was featured in the documentary “Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly,” which aired on the Smithsonian Channel. The former director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston said in Gold Coast magazine that “If there was a Pulitzer Prize for collage, Helander would surely win it.” He is currently developing a pressed flower collage portrait show that will open at the Ann Norton Sculpture Garden in November.