Spontaneous Art Creation!

This workshop gives participants a chance to spontaneously create art in a safe, non-judgemental space, with no preconceived notions or "skills." A variety of materials for painting, drawing, collage etc. will be provided, and participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own materials as well. Poems, doodles, magazines, fabrics, unfinished paintings, concert tickets, photographs or any objects of significance can enrich your creative experience. The session will begin with a meditative grounding exercise and conclude with a gentle sharing of our creations.

Limited to 16 people

The workshop is free, but we suggest a $20 donation to support Project Human X. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

This workshop is partially inspired by a series of online Spontaneous Creation Making (SCM) sessions that took place during the COVID pandemic. The sessions were facilitated by artists/authors, Barbara Bickel and Michael Fisher, with assistance from Hallie Sanclemente Morrison. Learn more about them at the StudioM website and have a look at the book that was published about SCM and the video too.

Bio: Barbara Bickel is an artist, researcher, editor and educator. With an understanding art as spirit, she practices and teaches art as co-inquiry and interdisciplinary meaning making process. She co-founded and is currently co-artistic director of in Nanaimo, BC, Canada. She is core Faculty at Southwestern College, Santa Fe, NM, and Emerita Associate Professor of Art Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA. Her arts-based Ph.D. in Art Education from The University of British Columbia, Canada was awarded the Arts Based Educational Research Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association (ABER SIG) in 2009. Her art and research interests include arts-based inquiry methods, a/r/tography, collaboration, socially engaged art, connective aesthetics, spirituality, feminist art & pedagogy, matrixial theory, women’s leadership, and restorative and transformative learning.

Bio: Gregory Wendt is an all-around creative person who works in video, photography, collage, painting, writing, music and acting. Improvising and creating spontaneous works in any medium is his specialty. He comes from a background of working in the New York City film industry to later earning a Masters Degree in Telecommunication at SIUC (1998), where he has since been employed as a full time video producer. Gregory also spent several years teaching Digital Art and Web Design in the School of Art and Design at SIUC. His videos can be found at https://vimeo.com/user1885070 and his website is gregorywendt.com but it is currently under reconstruction. His photography can be found on flickr.

Host or Publisher Project Human X