National Art Education Assc. 2019 Proposal #1
Title: Creating community through collaborative practices.
Listen to the experiences of five artist educators and the collaborative artistic, teaching, and learning practices they use in their professional lives whether as artists, educators, or scholars. Are you interested in getting to know another artist/educator and starting a dialogical exploration in images and words? Do you need some inspiration and motivation to engage in your studio practice on a more consistent basis? Do you just need to get out of your art making rut? Then this is the presentation for you!
This panel presentation will discuss the growing and evolving network of artists who make, collaborate, and share their studio practice research. This presentation will expose attendees to the opportunities involved through collaboration and correspondence and in doing so provide multiple models to use as examples of where concerted practices can lead.
Attendees will learn about the history of collaborative correspondence art, the theories surrounding acts of exchange, and the power of building your creative community. Through the combined 100 years of experience of five artist-educator panelists we will discuss how art-based research can lead practitioners and students to robust learning, making, and teaching practices.
Panelists will demonstrate that no matter what position you hold in art education, an ongoing commitment to searching for persistent engagement develops collaboration. These possibilities may never be accomplished without a continuing commitment to searching for creators with whom to collaborate. Finally, the panelists will demonstrate how collaboration in art education through it's underlying community building philosophy has evolved into garnering access for artist residencies at galleries, institutions, and schools. Collaborative practice is a movement that continues to reinvent itself as it integrates more and different creative energy and expands to new people and places.
Track: Community Caucus 2019
Presentation Description: This hands-on workshop invites participation and discusses the evolution of the international visual journal exchange project, tet[R]ad: Draw & Play Here and proposes the practice-based becoming of educator-artist-researchers.
Co-presenters:
Mr. David Modler
Mr. Michael Dodson
Mr. Michael Bell
Mr. Eric Scott
Presentation Format: FLASH Learning. Fast-paced sessions that introduce varying viewpoints and experiences related to a general topic. 2 - 5 speakers present on the same topic using a strict format that includes ten minutes to present each perspective/experience using ten PowerPoint slides.
Time: 50 minutes.
Room Set Up: Theater seating.
