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Collaborative Combative Drawing (CCD) functions as an icebreaker, conversation starter, and a challenge to step up and engage with your collaborators, whoever they may be. Events and workshops are customized for schools, galleries, museums, businesses, conferences and private residences.
Description: One large piece of paper, one central goal, multiple artists, power ideas at the ready, drawing tools cocked and loaded, and the understanding that collaboration is messy… Whether negotiating personal or professional relationships or simply coexisting, everyone comes to the table with their own ideas. Sometimes those ideas fuse, sometimes they clash; often they do both. The harmonious side of human nature seeks a common ground, knowing there will disputed objectives before a new perspective can be adopted. Collaborative Combative Drawing utilizes the energy created by the inherent pushing and pulling in human relationships as a method of (art) production.
Artist and Self-Defense instructor Melissa Wyman invites participants to explore both the cooperative and combative sides of their fields by going head to head in the creation of large-scale works on paper. Participants must push, pull, escape or outwit each other in order to complete a single drawing or representation of their personal power statement, symbol or design. Melissa will coach participants in effective and relevant martial art/self-defense techniques for outmaneuvering the other participants and getting their drawing down on paper. The process will be frustrating yet exhilarating, and result in surprisingly dynamic, collaborative works.
Collaborative Combative Drawing 