I will be teaching at a variety of venues this year. It could be I’ll be offering a workshop near you. Check out the schedule below and join me in an assemblage art class.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

A Tale of Two Realms - Dia de los Muertos

Oaxaca, Mexico
Oct 26th thru Nov 4th, 2025

A Mixed Media Art Experience with Michael deMeng
During Day of the Dead Celebrations in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Día de los Muertos is one of those wonderfully weird times when the land of the living and the realm of the dead decide to mingle—separated only by a whisper, a candlelit pathway, and maybe a few shots of mezcal. So, I figured, why not dive headfirst into this spectral crossover with an assemblage project that straddles both worlds?

In this workshop, we’ll be creating shrines that embody two halves of existence—maybe the world above and the one beneath the grave, or a split between light and shadow, past and present. However you decide to frame your piece, we’ll be scavenging, assembling, and reanimating found objects into something that has a magical story to tell.

And because we don’t do things halfway, we’ll be summoning our favorite tricks of the trade—paint layering, eerie patinas, and those deliciously distressed applications—to bring these creations to life (or afterlife, depending on your artistic leanings).

Come to Oaxaca, where the spirits are chatty, the altars are glowing, and the art gets a little mystical, a little macabre, and a whole lot of fun.

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Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts

Mineral Point Wisconsin

June 26th-29th 2025

Hand of Protection Assemblage Workshop

In this class we are going to make sure no bad mumbo jumbo comes your way by creating a protective eye reliquary using a variety of found objects and the process of assemblage. Get ready for a bit of civil-eye-zation…I know, I know…maybe we should be building reliquaries to ward off my bad puns.

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