This is the Value of Process Over Product: What I Learned in a Four-Day Collage Workshop on Nantucket

Your Creative Midlife · Aug 6, 2026 · 8m

I’m sharing the results of a collage workshop I took at the Visual Arts Center of the Artists Association of Nantucket, one of the island's major art centers. As a budding collage artist, this was an amazing experience, and it really gave me a chance to do a deep dive for four days in a row with a great instructor and great classmates.

I talk about the different techniques I used in each collage and how I’m discovering the value of process over getting a finished product.

Here are my takeaways:

1. It really is about process over product. If you focus on having something "worthy" to bring home…