Practice A Practice
In-context Encounters Between Children & Creative ProfessionalsPractice a Practice gives groups of children the opportunity to:
- Meet a creative practitioner or professional, in-person
- Learn, first-hand, about an individual approach to making art
- Take part in a creative workshop based upon a unique artistic practice
Within a Practice a Practice workshop, our role shifts - from workshop leaders to facilitators. We advise a participating artist/designer on how to structure and deliver a workshop surrounding their creative practice - most of the practitioners we collaborate with have never worked with children before.
Practice a Practice offers an encounter characterised by mutual exchange.
Children benefit from engagement with an aspect of a artist/designer’s unique creative practice - this might include unfamiliar media, physical techniques, specific themes, ideas or questions that the practitioner deals with.
For the participating artist/designer, this experience can offer a deeper understanding and new appreciation for their practice. When explaining their practice to children, practitioners are required to make sense of things in more essential terms. Then comes dialogue - children ask questions and offer criticism - from a perspective that the practitioner may never have experienced.
Completed Practice A Practice workshops include:
Sculpture & Casting
w/ Joel Danielsson
Octopus Drawing
w/ Hanna Romin
Pinhole Photography & Darkroom Developing
w/ Andy Allen & Barthélémy Garcia
Graffiti Art
w/ MC Coble
Hoodie Fabriken
w/ Tove Posselt
