Oil and Cotton Kit
KIT | Mariposa Collage with Shannon Driscoll of Oil and Cotton
KIT | Mariposa Collage with Shannon Driscoll of Oil and Cotton
Pickup available at 2313 Beatrice Street
Usually ready in 24 hours
This kit was produced exclusively for Capital One Associates to use in conjunction with the Mariposa Collage with Shannon Driscoll of Oil and Cotton Art@Home event on Friday, Sept 19, 2025. Shipping deadline for this kit if Friday, Sept 5, 2025.
EVENT DESCRIPTION
Fill your day with the brilliant colors of migrating monarch butterflies with artist Shannon Driscoll of Oil and Cotton. Learn about the annual migration of butterflies to the mountains of Central Mexico. Create a dimensional collage using a combination of drawing, cutting, paper sculpting techniques with hand-painted papers. Collage is a meditative art practice that is accessible to everyone! Please have your own scissors for class.
KIT CONTENTS
collage surface
variety of hand-painted paper sheets
tracing template
black and white drawing media
glue stick
Shannon Driscoll is the co-founder of Oil and Cotton. She teaches book and paper arts with a focus on material science and the history of handcraft. Her adult daily creative practice weekly class explores various artists' techniques through history by closely examining their work with the eye of a scientist and the hands of an artist.
She received her Bachelor of Art in Art History with a focus on American folk art from the University of North Texas and her Masters Degree from the Kilgarlin Center for the Preservation of the Cultural Record at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied book and paper conservation in 2006. She received additional conservation training through various AIC courses and through internships and professional experience while at the North East Document Conservation Center, Andover; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Widner Library, Harvard College Libraries, Cambridge, the Pinos Y Serriera Archives, Vilassar de Dalt, Spain before opening a private conservation practice in Dallas.
Shannon served on the board of Resolana where she also taught art classes to incarcerated women in the Dallas County Jail and served on the board of the Oak Cliff Foundation.
