Collage Button-Making for Kids with Lyvia Turpin

Make a statement!  - In this three hour workshop, students will learn the basics of collage to create their own unique, wearable pin-back buttons. Finished buttons are 2.25 inches. This workshop is for children of all skill levels ages 10 and up. 

Instructor: Lyvia Turpin
Saturday, March 14
10AM - 1PM
$15 Members / $20 Non-members

Ages: 10+

Lyvia Turpin is a painter and printmaker born and raised in Drexel, NC. She moved to New

York in 2021 to pursue higher education and broaden her horizons. In 2025, she graduated

from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts Printmaking and a minor in History

of Art. She has since moved back home, as distance does in fact make the heart grow fonder,

and she is passionate about finding and creating community right here in Burke County.

Her work utilizes the materiality of propaganda and the disseminable characteristics of

printmaking to express visibility of various identities in the South and Appalachia. Her prints,

buttons, and zines address this using local imagery and clippings from Southern magazines

alongside historical symbols and references. Appreciation for the natural scenery of her home is

woven throughout her work, alongside a fascination with light, color, and layering, allowed by

her use of watercolor, transparent inks, and collage.