About the Workshop

In this one-week intensive, artist Liz Collins guides participants through an immersive exploration of pattern as a living, evolving force. Drawing from Collins’ cross-disciplinary practice rooted in textiles, abstraction, and queer futurity, the workshop invites students to investigate how repetition, rhythm, and structure generate energy, emotion, and connection.

Each day centers on hands-on experiments—mark-making, modular construction, translation between mediums, and the building of layered systems. Students work with drawing, collage, and textile-inspired methods to create patterns that shift, vibrate, and expand beyond the flat plane. Emphasis is placed on intuitive process, bold visual play, and the pleasure of material engagement.

Through group discussions and shared critiques, participants consider how pattern operates in space, how it shapes perception, and how it can be used to create expressive environments. By the end of the week, each student produces a constellation of studies and prototypes that reflect their own sensibility while engaging the dynamic, charged language of pattern central to Collins’ work.

About the Instructor

Liz Collins is an NYC- based artist known for her dynamic fiber works that vary in scale, form, and context. Her solo exhibitions and installations have been at the RISD Museum, Museum of Arts and Design , the Tang Museum, and Touchstones Rochdale (England), among others. Collins has been in dozens of group shows: the New Museum, the Drawing Center, the Museum of Modern Art, Leslie Lohman Museum, LACMA, the National Gallery of Art, the Addison Gallery, ICA/Boston, and the Venice Biennale in 2025. Collins’ honors include a USA Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Drawing Center Open Sessions program, Two Trees Cultural Subsidy Studio Program, and an Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship.