Welcome to the website of artist

Marsha Monroe Pippenger

I’m glad you’re here! On this site you will find good art and good information. I hope you stick around and explore. And, I hope you find it interesting enough to return again and again. 

             

My specialty is collage, an art form that has been around for centuries, although it was not really defined as fine art until Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque began working in the medium in the early part of the 20th century (see more about collage on the page titled “Collage”). When an artist glues paper and other materials to a rigid support, she has created a collage. This is a rather loose definition, and collages can be anything from pieced quilts to scrapbooking to fine art “paintings”. Mine are fine art paintings – “paper paintings” if you will – and because of that, it’s okay to refer to my collages as paintings. The only real difference from a painting is that I use paper instead of paint. In fact, people often think my collages are painted, and like a painter I too work on canvas.

                           

Here are some of the things you will find on my website:

1. Information about me on the page titled: “Who is this artist?” Go there to find out more about the person Marsha.

2. A little history on collage on the page called (for obvious reasons!): “Collage”.

3. MY WORK IS FOR SALE, AND YOU CAN BUY IT HERE, on this very site! Go to “See my Work”, on the Page heading, and “More Art” and “Postcard Art”, listed under Categories. Any piece that is not for sale is marked. I ALSO TAKE COMMISSIONS, so feel free to call me for that piece you need!

4. If you visit the page marked “Notecards”  you will see that I also create collage notecards. These are all original designs that are then printed so that you can purchase many more than one of the same card. THEY TOO ARE FOR SALE and I want you to buy them!

5. INFORMATION AND PRICING ABOUT CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND LECTURES. I am a teaching artist as well as a studio artist, and have a lot of experience working as an artist-in-residence for all ages from kindergarten to senior citizens, teaching studio classes and art history, demonstrating and conducting workshops in my particular technique, and giving talks on creativity. In particular here, you may enjoy reading about my audience participation “performance art”, “How Does Art Start?”, which is listed under Categories.

6. PIP’S BLOG (listed under Categories): here I write about all things art (and non-art) related.

7. CONTACT ME. I want you to. You can leave a comment on any of the pages or under any of the categories, or you can email me at: pippengerart@gmail.com.

                       

8. WHERE TO FIND ME. Currently, you can find my work at Really Cool Stuff (and it is), in West Milton, Ohio, here on the website, and in my studio. I will keep you posted on upcoming exhibitions.

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 9. OTHER ITEMS TO INTEREST YOU, listed on the Categories sidebar:

“Dinner in the City”, a one-artist exhibition inspired by Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party and Christine de Pisan’s Book of the City of Ladies. 

“Postcard Art”, featuring only collages measuring 4″ by 6″. 

“More Art”, just as it says – more work created by “moi”.

“Works in Progress”. This will include views of my studio.

“Pablo’s Coffeehouse”. These are taken from a magazine column I used to write about artists from all eras meeting in an imaginary coffeehouse on the Left Bank in Paris. 

“Favorite Quotes on Art”.

“cartoons and art”, some of my faves.

                        

I feel strongly about integrating art into life, and teaching art across the curriculum, because I know that experience with the arts can enrich and even change lives!