Myself with fellow cohort graduate students Gamelle Fitsgibbens and Wilerine Dolan, 2019
Creating a Community Studio - An important and wonderful aspect of the M of Vis Art Ed Cohort format is the opportunity to work side by side in a community studio space. The atmosphere is condusive to collaboration, influence, comraderie, discussion and consults. The intimacy of space facilitated an intimacy of relationship that allowed for creative freedom, great strides of exploration and much sharing. The space was open at all hours and I enjoyed some late nights indulging in creative play. Below see Visual Dialogue assignment, 2018, with cohort graduate student Jaafar Aghajanian, where I deconstruct his oil painting and reframe it with paper pulp to create a work for us to collaboratively explore in a multitude of formats.
Summer Cohort Session 2020
Due to the world Covid 19 pandemic the 2020 session is Zoom-based and suitably focussed on digital presentation with UVic, Assistant Professor, Dr. Natalie Leblanc. We are all stuck in a strange virtual world! Ingrid Hauss, featured here, likens the experience to being in a virtual fish bowl.