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!

Custom Spotify Album Art for Strange to Look At

About a year ago I decided to dedicate myself to hand-cut collage as my medium. During this time, several musicians have commissioned me to create album art for them. This has been a pleasant surprise. Working with musicians can be a fun way to collaborate. It seems like most musicians need images for their Spotify, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud accounts. I create the collages by hand, then I digitize them to resize them and add text in photoshop.

Recently, Dan Poorman of Strange to Look At, approached me about making an image for their single entitled, “October” . Dan emailed me the lyrics to the new song and a link to their Spotify page. The end result is the image above.

If you need album art for your next project, let me know here.

Red Wizard Collage You Tube Channel! Please follow!

The goal of my You Tube channel is to show everyone my artistic process and share the joy of collage. I will be making DIY and work-process videos. I will share different project ideas and collage techniques. I will also be making educational videos that explain the philosophy behind different art movements. In the future, I hope to interview and discuss art with other artists that I admire. My first video is a quick intro to surrealism and I demonstrate how to make a bizarre Halloween themed collage. Please follow, and I hope you enjoy the content!

Custom Wine Label Design for Liten Buffel's “Faucheaux”

Featured in the April 2019 issue of Bon Appetit Magazine. A natural wine created by my good friends at Liten Buffel Winery . The name of this collage is “Awaiting Planetary Consciousness” .

What made the Great Lakes? Likely some incomprehensible catastrophic flood from rapid glacial melt sometime during the ice age. The Niagara region can grow grapes because of some prehistoric cosmic cataclysm. We now reside next to massive puddles, leftover from this unknown event. Our land is a like a massive living tissue covered in tributaries that recycle this water back to these craters of life. Nearly all of our megafauna from the giant mammal epochs are extinct. Which could also indicate a ‘regional’ catastrophic event.

BTW the wine is delicious.