Collaborative Curricula

An immersive group experience within Elsewhere's installation of artworks and resources enables students to advance their creative practice through hands-on experimentation while unfolding new dynamics in their learning community. Through context-based inquiries, students explore intersections of artistic intent and curatorial process, pursuing individual or collaborative projects that utilize the Elsewhere experience and environment as basis for their explorations. Discovering an alternative to the traditional critique, students at Elsewhere collaborate by forming visual dialogues that build their community through creative models of response. Focusing on process and practice explorations during these short retreats, students explore the integral role of multiple documentation formats and the potential integration of documentation into the work itself. Groups find Elsewhere to be a wholly exceptional site for expanding creative investigations and knowledges while building collaborative learning relationships among peers.

Elsewhere's directors work closely with professors and teachers to design curricula to match each groups' experiences, skills and interests by providing formats for excavation and discovery of the environment that match current teaching goals and areas of study. Professors are encouraged to utilize the retreat as a mini-residency, an opportunity to explore their own creative interests while learning and exchanging with students. Working alongside one another, students and teachers have an intimate opportunity to learn from one another's working practices, skills, and talents within unique conditions and resources for conceptually and theoretically driven creative production.

Elsewhere has designed curricula for students in Art, Architecture, Theory and English programs at universities, workshops for college and high school literary groups and student organizations, and class fieldtrips for students at area colleges and high schools. Program formats include one or multi-day seminars for area students, or retreats ranging from three to ten days. Your curriculum will include a reading list designed to prepare students to integrate experiential learning with theory and concept and to provoke new questions about the relationships between process and creation. We invite you to contact us about programming options and how we might offer your students an exceptional creative opportunity.