Michael Albert / Modern Pop Art Experience / Hands-On Collage workshop

Michael Albert has been making art for over 30 years since his college days at New York University, where he studied business. His work has evolved from doodling & drawing to collage. He is nationally known for making colorful, detailed collages out of cereal boxes & the printed cardboard packaging of consumer brands. He has developed a body of work on a variety of themes including cubist portraits, color studies, logo montages, and text based works on subjects such as literature, quotes & sayings, lyrics, geography, religion, mathematics & others. In the past 15 years, he has been creating large "Epic" scale collages that can take weeks, months & even more than a year to create. He is also the published author of an artist autobiography titled, "An Artist's America" (Henry Holt, 2008) and is the founder/owner & artist for a brand of foods & beverages called Sir Real. Finally, he has developed a traveling art enrichment program called the Modern Pop Art Experience, which is a combination of artist visit & talk, hands-on collage workshop & free poster giveaway & signing, which he has brought to venues all over the USA & in Europe including schools, libraries, museums, art festivals & maker faires.