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 in Ontario and ended up at several large art organizations in greater Vancouver. She earned a BA from Emily Carr University in 2002.
As well as teaching a number of classes at Collage Collage, she maintains 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 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. She created and stared in a TV show airing on Access 7 called “The Painting from Life with Sarah Holtom Show!”.
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.