ERIN BONIFERRO is the owner, head instructor, buyer, and paint brush cleaner of Collage Collage.
She is a practicing artist with 10 years of teaching experience that started in the back yard with her siblings and ended up at several large art organizations in greater Vancouver.
After graduating from Emily Carr University in 2002, she spent time working at The Richmond Art Gallery, The Vancouver Art Gallery and Arts Umbrella. She served as President of the Western Front Society before stepping down to pursue what would become Collage Collage.
She teaches a number of classes at Collage Collage, as well as maintaining her studio practice that always seems to end up involving textiles in some way, shape or form.
SARAH HOLTOM is an accomplished plein air painter. Her project, entitled “100 Portraits of Calgary Artists” was completed after her graduating year from the Alberta College of Art and Design with funding from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and subsequently added to the Glenbow Museum’s permanent collection.
Since then she has spent time in both New York City and small town Saskatchewan, where she successfully co-ran the “National Gallery of Saskatchewan” for two years, contributed work to several nationally touring shows and instructed art lessons out of the Godfrey Dean Gallery. It was during this time that she created and stared in a TV show airing on Access 7 called “The Painting from Life with Sarah Holtom Show!”; graciously funded by the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
Holtom has recently moved to Vancouver, she continues to teach at Collage Collage and plein air paint from her new ’92 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon/Studio.
CLAIRE SCHAGERL is an artist, illustrator and toy maker who holds her BFA from Emily Carr University. Her line of soft toys, Thistletown Studio, stems from her love of textiles, stitching, nature and inspiring play.
LIZ TOOHEY-WIESE has been an artist ever since she can remember. She received her degree in Visual Arts at Emily Carr University in 2011, but has also made work while studying in France and taking part in an artist residency in Iceland. When she isn’t at Collage Collage, Liz can be found teaching swimming lessons, drinking tea, or possibly hiking (or drawing) the North Shore mountains.