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Collage Workshop at Liten Buffel Winery

Disclaimer. I am not a writer. Don’t be a grammar Nazi. Thanks!

Lets get right down to it. Liten Buffel makes the best wine in the Niagara Frontier. Most NY wine tastes like flat cream soda with a hint of grape jam.

bleh.

I am not going to pretend to know anything about wine in this post. Try it the wine for yourself. If your favorite wine is the Riesling candy-juice they serve at The World’s Largest Disco, Liten Buffel is probably not for you. If you like the living and austere flavors of natural wine, Liten Buffel is perfect. The wine is light and flavorful. It is not trying to be Californian. If you are on a fermentation kick, and you like the nuance of craft cider, local terroir, and maybe a hint of kombucha this is your beverage.

This Winery holds a special place in my heart. My friend Patrick Vaughn is co-owner of this beautiful place. A few years ago he told me he had been busting his hump for a year building a winery from the ground up. I had not heard much from Pat since high school. Pat was an Army Ranger, and after his service he was employed in Afghanistan for several years. Shortly after our phone call, we began to collaborate.

The custom label for Faucheaux “Fo Sho”

The custom label for Faucheaux “Fo Sho”

I designed a wine label for Liten Buffel, and it is now their most popular wine. This year’s vintage is totally sold out already! The name of the wine is Faucheaux pronounced “Fo Sho”. Needless to say these guys have a sense of humor and style. Faucheaux was also featured in Bon Appetite magazine as well.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the winery to learn how to collage. This was a perfect event. We celebrated craft on so many levels.

If you would like to attend a workshop, find out more here.

Fun Corporate Team Building Activity at Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

I conducted a collage workshop at the Helm Experience & Design headquarters . Helm is located at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Innovation Center. We used collage as a simple team building activity.

Helm wanted their team members to discover and learn their company values. Each team member was assigned a different value. We then used hand-cut collage as a way to convey each value. After the workshop each team member presented their collage/ value to the group.

Special thanks to Jonathan & Nicholas of Helm. I never would have imaged that a software company would want to use a collage workshop as a team building exercise. However, I have never worked in such a cool office! I would love to host more team building activities in Buffalo and western New York . If you are interested please give me a shout here.

-The Red Wizard

Daddy's Plants Collab and Collage Workshop

The first ever Red Wizard Collage workshop was hosted by Daddy’s Plants. Daddy’s plants is an awesome new indoor plant store located next to Resurgence Brewery on Niagara Street. Bootleg Bucha and Blackman Cider Co. reside in the same building. They provided some seriously tasty beverages for the workshop. The building emits a sweet and uncanny odor of brew and microorganisms. Daddy’s plants looks like a stylish botanist’s fevered dream. It is such a cool space! Niagara Street is coming back to life, and this place is the living hub.

There are currently 3 types of Red Wizard prints for sale at Daddy’s. Billy arranged his finely curated plants around the prints to create technicolor jungle experience. I also made 3 unique 24 in. x 36 in. large frame prints that I will never print again. They will be available until mid-November. Go check out Daddy’s Plants! I am a terrible writer and I cant begin to explain how charming Billy & Pat are.

I plan on co-hosting more collage workshops at Daddy’s Plants. Be sure to check my events page for any upcoming workshops!