COLLAGE: A Fine Art Approach with John Andrew Dixon

Join John Andrew Dixon for a hands-on exercise exploring the medium of collage under the direction of an experienced collage artist, and create your own “collage miniature.” Practical instruction will focus on materials, techniques, and visual design, with emphasis on intuitive spontaneity within an experimental process.

John Andrew Dixon is a full-time fine artist, following an independent career as an award-winning design professional. He earned a degree in Graphic Design from the University of Cincinnati. After working in Brussels and Chicago, he co-founded a design firm with his wife and partner, Dana, and taught visual communication at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, before relocating to Kentucky in 1990. Dixon has been an active exhibitor for seventeen years and writes about his approach online at "The Collage Miniaturist". His artwork has been internationally recognized and is held in private collections from Alaska to Central Europe. He is a participant in Plein Air Artists of Central Kentucky and has a studio with presentation gallery in the heart of historic downtown Danville. In 2017, he was named an adjudicated member of the Kentucky Crafted Program, which is administered by the Kentucky Arts Council. The state arts agency has provided Kentucky Art Rescue grant funds to Dixon with federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dixon's exhibit, LITTER-ALLY KENTUCKY: Collage en plein air, will be on view at the Library July 26 through September 23.