A few years back, my friend Alice Ann suggested a unique kind of "round robin" for a group of eight artists in various media. She dubbed it "Call and Response", like a jazz music exchange - you play one note, I respond with the next. Each artist created a "Call piece", based on an agreed-upon theme. The first one I participated in was color - we each pulled a color out of a hat, and made our piece around that as a starting point. Then each Call piece was passed to each artist in turn, one a month, until at the end of eight months, I had seen all of the other calls, and made a piece in response. A picture helps - these are the "responses" to my "call":
The theme was shapes, and I was lucky enough to pick "spiral" out of the hat (see the previous post for a closeup). There were seven other clusters, one for each call and the associated responses. Media includes photography, textiles, weaving, ceramics, glass, paintings, lino cuts... you name it. This format makes for a great exhibition (we've been invited back every year to exhibit at the Giustina Gallery of the LaSells Stewart Center), and the time constraints keep us very productive.
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