Arts
* instruction
* collaboration
* research
* healing
I often wonder at distinctions and boundaries within the arts; living with questions about the parameters that encompass and overlap: art instruction, curative education, fine arts, healing/therapeutic processes and aspects of art research and community building…?
I believe it develops/evolves according to the attention and intention of those involved..
Years ago I considered ‘the practice’ much more in line with those of an instructor or teacher, facilitator and often simply a collaborator. I met with people in my studio and usually painted or created right along with them. Many people have not painted or created on a regular basis since their early school years and my goal was simply to create; show them the method, a particular medium and let them be free. It’s pretty informal to start, generally with a painting, usually wet on wet, sometimes just a hand full of clay.
From there we observe the artworks themselves; thoughts and feelings about the process and perhaps what could improve it.
The media
Is this the about box?