Co Creative Center New Bedford
Arts organization
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This workshop will center on the poetry of our everyday lives - from morning routines to the beauty of an outdoor garden, there is poetry in our surroundings. Led by Sarah Jane Mulvey, the group will explore poems that give us tiny glimpses into the private sanctuaries of poets. We'll then focus on the beautiful… read more
Making Friends with Your Work explores the things that block us creatively and the reasons we stop working (even when we know we want to!). Through imagery, conversation, and writing, Making Friends with Your Work will help you understand your own blocks and find paths out of them. Making Friends with Your Work focuses on… read more
This workshop will focus on how creatives can expose themselves to opportunities in the professional/ industry side of art. How their experiences as artists can help shape the way they think and promote their goals. Through the eyes of Adam Mignanelli we will look at his experience in industry, the path he has carved for… read more
If the title of this workshop makes you tense up, you are in the right place. Whether creating an exhibition proposal, artist statement, grant application or speaking to an interested viewer, communicating about your art efficiently and authentically can feel completely overwhelming. This workshop will broach the impossible— or at least the daunting and at… read more
The workshop explores the fluid relationship between poetry and imagery. The interactive workshop will take participants on a journey between the different artforms looking at different ways to transition from one art form to another, creating and learning how to enhance each one along the way. The workshop will be led by Iva Brito. More… read more
In this workshop, we we will discuss the various components associated with photography & producing high quality composition & work. Change of date: Now November 16, 2022 This workshop is designed to layout and discuss the concepts of photography. Through the lens of professional photographer, former pro snowboarder, surfer, & lifelong outdoor enthusiast Scott Sullivan… read more
In this workshop we will explore a brief writing exercise that reflects that reflects on a curious question. We will explore that inquiry through sketches basics of gestural forms in combination of with Gestalt principles. We will build a sketch for a drawing that symbolically reflects our findings. Materials: Sketchbook. mark making material that can be… read more
Learn how to create more honest, compelling songwriting. Song Camp 101 with Mercy Bell - Learn how to create more honest, compelling songwriting. Journaling your feelings and writing lyrics that grab an audience are very different processes. To write compelling lyrics, you have to combine them. To write a catchy song, you have to put compelling lyrics… read more
Join cartoonist Cara Bean in this hands-on, visual thinking, mindfulness workshop. Cara walks participants through a series of creative exercises intended to lessen anxiety, build confidence, and grow creativity. Together, you’ll go over the basics of communicative cartooning (stick figures allowed!) and develop the skills needed to doodle as a form of play and problem-solving. Co-Creative… read more
with Samia Walker Artists see possibilities everywhere. Monetizing talent, however, is a daunting task for an artist. At EforAll , we recognize that creating a sustainable life in the arts is complicated, that there is no singular approach to building a creative enterprise, that it doesn’t happen quickly, and that success has its roots in… read more
Matt Mignanelli’s paintings are composed of gradated fields of blue, gestural dissections, and geometric forms inspired by light, shadow, and architectural elements. Informed by the urban landscape and vistas from the natural world these works examine the duality of modern life with emotional complexity. Mignanelli’s process combines incredibly detailed, methodical hand-painting, with references to utilitarian… read more
Cedric “Vise1” Douglas is Artist, Designer, Muralist, and Social Interventionist he was born in Boston Massachusetts, by immigrant parents from Jamaica. He received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Massachusetts College Of Art and Design. He currently resides in New Bedford Massachusetts with his art studio in Abington Massachusetts at the Arnold Shoe Factory.… read more