How to Use mixed-media in a Sentence

mixed-media

adjective
  • Students will observe what’s around them and draw, paint or used mixed-media techniques to create artwork.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
  • Pieces can be any media or mixed-media and two- or three-dimensional, an Art League news release said.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • But his mixed-media tapestries reach past any specific culture and toward the universal.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • These include Bruns, whose glossy mixed-media pictures combine free-form gestures with hard-edge shapes produced through stenciling.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
  • The collage and mixed-media paintings illustrate the creation of the human body within a factory system.
    — Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Also on display are mixed-media drawings on handmade paper that use photo transfers of what appear to be family snapshots.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Shearling and leather jackets were standouts, [along with] chunky mixed-media knits at Lafayette 148 and Rag & Bone.
    — David Moin, WWD, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Artworks on display will range from plein air painting, ceramics, woodworking, mixed-media and stained glass to photography.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Variety is encouraged, and the exhibit aims to showcase a range of mediums, from painters to mixed-media artists and photographers.
    — Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026
  • For more than a decade, Thomas’s mixed-media practice has examined the subjects of Blackness and identity, and this show is no different.
    — Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2023
  • At 23, her work — a distinctive mix of sculpture, ceramics, woodworking and mixed-media — has already been displayed in a number of group shows.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
  • Her mixed-media abstractions, full of colors that are both ripe and bruised, odd forms, and occasional patterns, honor the humble and overlooked like landmarks of memory.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
  • Also included are sculptures and mixed-media objects from the artist’s personal holdings alongside artworks on loan from other collections.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The Netflix series, premiering in 2021, is a mixed-media series for kids that explores a fantastical world of cats.
    — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • On the opposite side are mixed-media, multilevel photo-collages that include cereal imagery among many other commercial visuals.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Wang utilizes this mixed-media approach to presenting Chris’ life, lived equally offline and on-, and the juxtapositions in form reflect what’s happening internally for Chris too.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
  • Visitors can admire and buy works by glass blowers, woodworkers, ceramicists, clothing artists, jewelry makers, mixed-media artists, painters and photographers, sculptors, mosaic artists and more.
    — Daniella Walsh, Orange County Register, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Alicia Piller’s mixed-media installation, Mission Control.
    — Stacie Stukin, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Using mixed-media, rotoscopy and 2D animation, their protagonists lead a revolution towards a brighter future, the images depict subjects affecting change against the odds.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 14 June 2023
  • The pull to honor this rich legacy in a major way compelled Truly to launch HoochieCon, a group exhibit featuring mixed-media art and music honoring Black women pioneers at the center of hoochie culture.
    — Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • The event will feature 120 American artists working in ceramics, decorative fiber, basketry, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed-media, wood, paper and wearable art.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
  • He is known for deriving inspiration from his heritage and expressing traditional ideas in contemporary forms—mixed-media sculptures, paintings, works on paper, videos, performances, and installations—that are at once poetic and politically urgent.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Fashion designer Romeo Hunte has always referenced his upbringing and Jamaican roots in his eponymous brand with contemporary style and innovative mixed-media approach, fusing streetwear aesthetics with tailored interpretations.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025

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