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Collaging in Papermaking is a class that explores experimental collaging techniques within the papermaking process.
You will learn how to pull sheets in various custom shapes, layer with found / foraged materials, experiment with colour in your composition, play with translucency and opacity, and incorporate materials from your existing collage / art stash! Techniques will include deckle boxing / pour mould, sheet forming, shaped sheets / stencils, laminating, embedding, and blow-out shapes.
Participants will leave with unique paper artworks that will further highlight paper as the medium.
Beginner friendly—no experience in papermaking, collaging, or any artmaking required!
Saturday, June 13th and June 20th, 2026
2 day class, 5 hours each, 11am - 4pm
Instructor: Flora Shum
Price includes all materials.
Level: Beginner, no experience required.
This is a masks required class.
Artist-Instructor Bio
Flora Shum is a Hong Kong born-Tkaronto/Toronto based artist, educator, and cultural worker. Her artistic practice is experimental and collaborative by nature, with roots in papermaking, printmaking, and book arts, extending to found objects, sculpture, video, and installation. Her art utilizes these mediums to explore alternative histories and archives, alchemy, multiples and multiplicity, and slow labour.
She co-directs Paperhouse Studio (c.2013), where she carries forward the vision for paper as a medium, and leads arts-based programming for underserved communities. She is one half of duo collective—AURA, and Artistic Director of CARFAC Ontario, the association of visual and media artists in Ontario, and sits on the Toronto Arts Council’s Creative Communities Committee.
Flora has facilitation experience at OCAD University, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Public Library, University of Toronto, Central Technical School (Toronto, ON.), Peter Pitseolak School (Kinngait, NU.) and Attagoyuk Ilisavik (Pangnirtung, NU.). She has exhibited locally and internationally, including Toronto (ON), Whistler (BC), Hong Kong, and New York (NY).
