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Lucy Rose Fischer | Visual Arts
Lucy Rose Fischer | Visual Arts
Lucy Rose creates fanciful designs that tell stories with vibrant colors. For her teaching, she works with paper collage--a medium that is messy, fun and accessible for "students" at all ages and levels of experience. For her own art, she paints upside down, inside out and backward, on hand-blown glass bowls and vases. Lucy Rose’s art career is also upside-down. She had a 25 year career as an award-winning researcher, teacher, and writer—with a PhD in sociology and a specialty in the study of aging. When she was almost 60, she asked myself, “How old do I have to be to follow my dream?” and she began her art career.
Lucy Rose’s art has been shown in over 50 exhibits and is on permanent display in public institutions and private collections. Her latest book, I’m New at Being Old, a whimsical picture book about aging with colorful paper collages, received a Midwest Book Award and an Independent Publishers Gold Award. She has been a keynote speaker for numerous community organizations, offering inspiration and motivation to everyone with a dream for the third age of life. Her story as a late-blooming artist is featured in the TPT program “Life Changing Art,” which won a regional Emmy Award.
Learn more about Lucy in her December 2013 Artist Spotlight interview.
Sample Programs: Customizable To Site’s Needs
Residencies
Watercolor for Fun
Learn how to paint with transparent colors, create colorful designs, experiment with new techniques, and use watercolors in mixed media paintings.
Paper Collage
Creating a paper collage is colorful, a little messy, and lots of fun. The collage process includes dyeing tissue paper with watercolor paints, rubbings (leaves or coins) with oil pastels, and lots of cutting and pasting. Learn how to create collage paintings on boards—using photos, words, drawings and vibrantly colored paper. When gluing fine brightly colored tissue paper, wrinkles are good!
Memory Books
Everyone has a story to tell. In this residency, we will create colorful accordion books, using words as well as pictures and paper collage. Accordion books can be folded up or can stand open to view all the pages at once. Each page is a small collage. Usually the books show personal-family stories and include copies of photos as well as words. The collage paintings tell stories too—using photos, words, drawings and vibrantly colored paper. If there’s time in a residency, we can use the paper collage technique on objects—boxes, vases, mirrors, waste baskets, etc. What is your story?
