Creative Collage: Techniques for Visual Storytelling
with Sarah Hadley
June 2 – 23, 2026
Course Description
Discover the imaginative possibilities of collage in this online workshop led by fine-art photographer and collage artist Sarah Hadley. Whether you’re new to collage or looking to refine your skills, this four-session workshop guides you through innovative techniques to blend imagery, textures, and materials in fresh and unexpected ways. With a focus on hands-on exploration, you work with your own photographs, magazines, and historical images to create compositions and create dynamic visual stories.
Sarah introduces you to a variety of methods inspired by both traditional and contemporary collage artists, covering key topics such as composition, concept, and color theory. You also explore how to enhance your collages with mixed media and digital tools. This workshop welcomes participants of all skill levels who are eager to expand their creative practice and develop their artistic voice through the fine art of collage.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Special Notes:
Class will meet 12:30 – 3:30 pm (Mountain Time) on Tuesdays starting June 2 and ending June 23 (four online group sessions). Enrollment is limited to 12 participants.
Zoom Video Conferencing software (available for no charge from Zoom.com) will be used to facilitate the class sessions. Further details will be emailed to registrants.
Santa Fe Workshops always aims to produce a high-quality experience for our online attendees. That said, variables including regional and local internet provider speeds, traffic on Zoom's servers, and your own computing hardware can contribute to a less than ideal streaming event. While we do our best to minimize the impact of these variables, they are outside the control of Santa Fe Workshops.
Policies:
View Withdrawal and Transfer Policies for online programs.
For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.
about
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist whose narrative imagery invites viewers on surreal and mysterious journeys where time and space are fluid. Her work focuses on the intersection of memory, identity, history, and imagination. She was born in Boston and studied both art history and photography at Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC. She spent time in her 20s studying and working at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Biennale in Venice, Italy, where she first started photographing seriously. Sarah worked at the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress and as a photojournalist for a newspaper in Virginia before moving to Chicago in 1996, where she founded the Filter Photo Festival.
Sarah’s photographs have been exhibited in art fairs in Italy, France, Portugal, China, China, Argentina and Australia, as well in galleries and museums around the US – in solo exhibitions at the Richard Levy Gallery, Afterimage Gallery, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the dnj Gallery, and Fabrik Projects Gallery, as well as in group exhibitions at the Hyde Collection, Danforth Museum, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Building Bridges Art Exchange, and the Robin Rice Gallery. Her work is held in museums, corporate and private collections, has been published in Le Monde, ELLE Italia, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Photo District News, The Oxford American, B+W Magazine, Harper’s, Lenscratch.com and she was recently interviewed on Mountain Lake PBS.
Website: sarahhadley.com
Instagram: @sarahhadleystudio
