Keeping Up Momentum: Saying Yes and Saying No: Working Together / Understanding Collaboration

Artists of all kinds are often called upon to collaborate with other creative people or with institutions and organisations. Understanding the dynamics of how these experiences might function can help develop your practice by unlocking new approaches and ideas. 

The next two-part Keeping Up Momentum event will be a hands-on, transdisciplinary workshop for students who are curious about how artists can collaborate to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Across painting, drawing, photography, textiles, graphic design, illustration, creative writing, music, sculpture, and moving image, you can explore collaboration as a creative tool to generate ideas, learn new skills, and make stronger, more unexpected work.

Each session will be approximately 2.5 hours, with three weeks in between to develop a collaborative project around a broad theme. In the first session, starting at 10 am on Saturday, January 31st,  we’ll explore diverse examples of artistic collaborations and provide a…