Maintaining an artistic mindset, when asked time and time again to push creative limit for each new assignment, is a difficult task for students. Creativity is a skill to be honed, and entering the academic and professional creative world can be stressful. During this two-hour workshop, participants will discuss ways to balance personal and professional art, shared artistic processes, and relationships to art, while creating a collaborative art piece responding to the ideas generated during the program. Supplies will be provided.

Coinciding with the exhibition Art As We Are: Creative Community Care, this workshop aims to support emerging artists to navigate artistic careers while prioritizing self-care and avoiding burnout, through discussion and community artmaking.

Preregistration is required. Details to follow. 

About The Facilitator:

Martin Puddephatt (he/him) is a third year Criticism and Curatorial student at OCAD U, focusing on art history. His artistic practice is heavily wrapped into his studies at OCAD U, and the most important lesson was not one explicitly taught in class – but what to do with the time outside of the lecture hall to hold onto his love of art