Crafting Valentine’s Day Cards with Max Colby

Join MAD Artist Studios alum Max Colby for an evening workshop making Valentine’s Day cards using mixed-media collage techniques. Inspired by Colby’s maximalist craft practices and materials, participants will create lavishly layered and embellished cards.  All materials will be provided.

About the Artist
Max Colby examines popular cultural codes and symbols embedded in mundane materials. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and collage, exploring transfiguration and tensions between love and death; celebration and mourning; materiality and abstraction. Colby has exhibited at institutions including Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Des Moines Art Center, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, Wave Hill, and Museum Rijswijk. In 2022 Colby exhibited a campus-wide public commission at Rockefeller Center presented by Art Production Fund. She has since presented solo exhibitions at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and Aicon Gallery in New York, NY. In 2012, she received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.