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Emma Bumstead
@emmabumstead.bsky.social
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🎲 Making art with an element of chance
🗓️ Taking on weekly challenges/themes for 2025
🖼️ Creative Director at Bryn Mawr College
📍Michigander (#GoBlue) in Philly
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Day 3: Dug up some old gelli plate prints from a couple of years ago to pair with my interpretation of CFM's Blossom!

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2x3" with acrylic, gouache, and watercolor on wood.

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#Colortober #MixedMedia #Collage #ArtYear #PhillyArt
A 2x3" collage pictured on a blue background
October 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Day 2: I think my interpretation of CFM's desert pink is a bit too pink and red-- but I used the name as backdrop inspiration for today's collage.

Don't tell SEPTA that I steal the tickets sometimes as collage fodder 🤣

2x3" | #Colortober #Collage #MixedMedia #ArtYear #PhillyArt
A mixed media collage pictured over a photo of the desert
October 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I'm going to attempt a variant of Inktober this month! I love the idea of #colortober from Case for Making and have prepared wooden tiles with an equivalent color from their list to collage on. That makes the prompt color the background every day-- and I do love a rules-based project 😆
A tiny collage on an easel pictured in front of the Philly skyline The colortober prompt list from Case for Making
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I've had an idea to do some architecture-inspired collages based on places that I run past that catch my eye for whatever reason. I really liked the pop of salmon pink on this place from my run last Sunday!

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#Collage #ArtYear #MixedMedia #PhillyArt
A 3x4" collage made using mostly acrylics, thread, and paper, featuring colors inspired by a house seen on a run. A beige Philadelphia rowhome with a salmon-pink door.
July 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Had a beautiful sunset run immediately followed by a thrilling wildlife encounter in the subway 🤣 I love Philly
Strava map of a run A sunset over the Ben Franklin bridge with skyline views of Philly A particularly large subway rat in 5th St/Independence Hall station
May 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I contributed a tiny little monochromatic piece to this— happy world collage day to all who celebrate! 🎉 ✂️
specialagentcollagecollective.com Special Agent Collage Collective @specialagentcollagecollective.com · May 9
Collage-O-Rama opens tomorrow night in Seattle! It’s the highest concentration of collage art HQ has ever seen and only a handful of pieces smell like musty old brittle paper. 😂 Slip Gallery, 6-9pm on May 9.
A window sign says Collage-O-Rama in colorful block letters. Through the window, a wall covered in a rainbow of artwork is visible. There is a table with collage supplies in the foreground.
May 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Easter candy colors at 30th Street Station 🐣🚉

Watercolor, acrylic, and colored pencil on paper.

#Collage #ArtYear #MixedMedia
A tiny pastel and dark green collage of abstract shapes held by a hand at an Amtrak/SEPTA station
April 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Took my Brompton on its first commute today!

Also— #SaveSEPTA
A lilac Brampton pictured at the base of the steps at a SEPTA train station
April 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Made a little collage on my lunch break that managed to perfectly encapsulate the colors of dying spring blooms on a gray spring day 😂

#Collage #MailArt #ArtYear #MixedMedia
A hand holding a tiny handmade collage featuring neutral beiges and grays with a pop of pink, photographed in front of a blooming tree.
April 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Happened to find myself at Omoi Zakka in Philly and I’m happy to report they carry LAMY now— excited to try it when I get home!

I just finished a huge deadline at work so I deserve a little treat 🤣
A LAMY Safari fountain pen pictured on top of a zebra print bag
March 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Fulfilled a very specific Philly bucket list item today: I hiked between two SEPTA stations through the Wissahickon-- saw Rittenhouse Town, the Henry Ave bridge, and Kelpius Cave. Looking forward to tackling a longer version of this car-free hike when I have a whole day!
Photo of both Tulpehocken station and Wissahickon station Photo of a home in historic Rittenhouse Town Photo of a biker passing under the Henry Ave bridge
March 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I'm scheming another tiny art kit and somehow none of my pencils are short enough for the task-- leave it to the resource exchange to have a full grab bag of short pencils and even a tiny brush!
A hand holding a bag of pencils and a tiny paintbrush in front of The Resource Exchange of Philadelphia
March 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Earlier this week I made a piece of mail art that I liked too much to send, so I made another inspired partially by its envelope (seen here peeking out from under the art!). I keep forgetting how much I like adding pattern to these shapes with colored pencil.

#Collage #MailArt #ArtYear #MixedMedia
A bright and colorful handmade piece of collaged mail art featuring abstract shapes is pictured with a handmade envelope.
March 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I have no idea what's going on, but I'll take your analysis, @sentimentbot.bsky.social!
March 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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This is meant to be my March mail art submission to send at the end of the month-- but I think I might love it too much to give away! I've been sick for the last several days so it felt good to collage last night.

#Collage #MailArt #ArtYear #MixedMedia
A collage comprised of beiges, browns, green, yellow, and blue shapes is arranged on a table with an upcycled brown envelope, a cutting mat, a brush, and some watercolor paint.
March 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It will come as a surprise to no one that the star church took my breath away 🤩🤩🤩 (the pink one is a stunner, too!)
presentcorrect.bsky.social Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · Mar 7
Thirty one joyful Keralan churches, in all their technicolour glory.
www.haubitz-zoche.de/churches
A Friday mood in architectural format.
the facade is made up of vertical rectangles in shades of lilac and mint. this church is pistachio ice cream green, a curved building with staggered pipe like structures baby pink and red, this church has a stripy entrance and the shape resembles a tent or big top a primrose yellow church which is in the shape of a star!
March 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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“Two Birds, One Hundred Stones” is indeed an instant classic podcast episode for me!
agoldman.bsky.social Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · Mar 10
Hi, I’m Alex goldman I used to host the Reply All podcast. I have a new show now called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. People seem to really like the most recent episode so if you’d like to check it out, you can do so at the link below. Thank you!!!
HyperFixed | Two Birds, One Hundred Stones
www.hyperfixedpod.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Come collage with @thetealappeal.bsky.social and me this Thursday in Old City Philly! I had fun with a combination of neon index cards and vintage imagery last month.

Reserve your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/gab-and-gl...
Five brightly-colored collages arranged on a blue surface
March 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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This insight into the combination of design and transit is thrilling for me! And to know women designers were behind the work, too.

Now I want to ride all the lines they've designed for the next time I'm in London 😁

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Meet Tube Moquette Designers - Wallace & Sewell
YouTube video by Geoff Marshall
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March 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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My last-minute February mail art submission is very "reduce, reuse, recycle" themed-- I used two envelopes I received at work this week alongside scrap paper from my January mail art! Also dipping a toe back into embroidering paper.

#ArtYear #Collage #MailArt
A collaged mail art postcard using recycled paper and thread is pictured on a cutting mat with a paint palette and brush.
February 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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My weekly creative theme is just to make a bunch of tiny collages featuring stars for no other reason than to bring some simple joy into my daily routine 🌟

I’m using random color draws for these to reduce decision making and I’ve gotten some amazing pairings so far!

#ArtYear #Collage #Watercolor
An arrangement of mini collages on a table with paintbrushes and a palette of watercolor paint
February 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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For all my mail art people: join me in making a last-minute piece of mail art for Jennifer Stamps' February mail art loop! Deadline is the 20th to sign up. This postcard is the card I received in January 💌

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A mail art postcard featuring a collage of vintage ephemera, patterned paper, and the words "It has come to dwell among us."
February 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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I've heard LAMY Safari fountain pens mentioned so much in YouTube videos recently by other artists that I am now questioning whether I need one when I haven't thought about fountain pens since art school 😂
February 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I spent a full hour looking at quilt patterns last night and figured I should sit down and attempt a collaged paper quilt. Not enough contrast between the squares-- but it was fun to use bits of a gift card envelope and a dirty SEPTA ticket 🤣

#ArtYear #Collage #Watercolor #MixedMedia
A hand holding a small collaged paper quilt made using paper scraps A digital collage showing the apple gift card envelope and SEPTA ticket used to make the paper quilt
February 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Tiny sketches? ✅ Tiny art kit? ✅ Beautiful scenery? ✅

A soothing video by printmaker Molly Lemon-- I love watching other artists on YouTube and need to share some of my favorite videos more often!

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Making Mini Sketches in The Lake District Using My Miniature Sketching Tin
YouTube video by Molly Lemon
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February 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM