Art & Design Online: Facilitating Community-Engaged Arts in Digital Space
Art & Design Online is a hands-on training workshop for visual artists who are interested in facilitating community-engaged artistic processes, especially online. Taking place on Zoom, this free two-part workshop will explore:
How to facilitate online artistic process where participants are meaningfully empowered to have creative voice within a collective context
Creating processes that are dynamic, engaging, and grounded in anti-oppression frameworks
How to curate materials and supplies for participants in ways that are accessible and budget-responsive
Practical tools, strategies, and activities for online community-engaged arts
Working across different visual arts media
Since this is an interactive, participatory workshop (and not, say, a recorded webinar), participants will need to attend in real-time.
Applications close Wed May 19th at 9am.
When is it?
This is a two-part workshop:
Part 1: June 8, 5:00pm-7pm EST
Part 2: June 9, 5:00pm-7pm EST
Participants should only apply if they are available and planning to attend both sessions.
Participants may be asked to complete some creative work between the two sessions as part of the program.
What will you get?
A free professional development opportunity in an affirming creative environment led by two highly experienced community-engaged visual artists
A participation honorarium of $100 ($25/hour x 4 hours)
Support toward an accessible environment including ASL interpretation, captioning, etc.
The Facilitators
Sonja Rainey is a theatre designer, facilitator and multi-disciplinary artist. Forms include theatre, opera, film making, concert & exhibition design. Her work invites curiosity & expression by blending forms and materials to collectively create & investigate unexpected connections. She’s a teaching artist with the Canadian Opera Company and has produced work with Confluence Arts Collective, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Continuum Contemporary Music, Ahuri Theatre, the Prague Quadrennial, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, PAMA, Humber College and various community arts organizations across Toronto.
Karis Jones-Pard is a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked in theatre arts for many years. She is a recent graduate of Humber College for Theatre Production. She has worked with Jumblies Theatre, Arts4All, and Community Arts Guild, for many years in many different capacities. Karis specializes in arts making/miniature making, drawing, stilting, and puppetry. She has a deep love for community arts and theatre and hopes to continue making art and creating a new love for art in community.