PURPOSE -Curatorial -Research: Collaborative Art Making Process -Artworks -Viewers Website as Mediator Exhibition/Art Ed.Research - Curriculum design: test, critique,analyze -Educators local/distant -Students local/distant -SAIC action researchers -field trips gallery visit Collaborative Process: Presentation Proceedings Participants SOURCE -Contexts -Juried Artists -Betty Rymer Gallery -SAIC Departments Art Ed/Mural Video/docu. Designed Obj. Fashion/shoe Writing/zine SAIC/Focus Groups Feminist Potted Soil Website - SAIC Art Ed MAE/MAT as Action Researchers -Educators local/distant -Educational Administrators -Respondent Artworks -Panel/workshop IAEA Conference, October 05 NAEA Conference, March 06 Reactions: Participants, Researchers, and Theorists TYPE Ethnography Ethno- methodology Website Practice: Collaborative art making Practice: Collaborative research Practice: art making -Critical Pedagogy -Focus Groups -Interviews -Research -Response -Conclusions/Critiques Forms Visual Verbal Performative FINDINGS Exhibition/ Art Education Action Research Project Data Source and Type Interpretation

PURPOSE of PROJECT -Curatorial -Research: Collaborative Art Making Process -Artworks -Viewers Website as Mediator Exhibition/Art Ed.Research - Curriculum design: test, critique,analyze -Educators local/distant -Students local/distant -SAIC action researchers -field trips gallery visit Collaborative Process: Presentation Proceedings Participants Collected research data Selected exchanged art works Collaborative Curriculum Local & distant students, educators, administrators, and SAIC action researchers Betty Rymer Gallery, Exhibition Website

COLLABORATIVE SOURCES -Contexts -Juried Artists -Betty Rymer Gallery -SAIC Departments Art Ed/Mural Video/docu. Designed Obj. Fashion/shoe Writing/zine SAIC/Focus Groups Feminist Potted Soil Gallery Programming Authors public reading World Music/Dance Performance Art ?? Website - SAIC Art Ed MAE/MAT as Action Researchers -Educators local/distant -Educational Administrators -Respondent Artworks -Panel/workshop IAEA Conference, October 05 NAEA Conference, March 06 Reactions: Participants, Researchers, and Theorists Pablo and Beto’s kids (high school and jr high school) collaborate on mural at Betty Rymer Gallery. Video documentation of collaborative process Gallery seating designed by students assisted by SAIC design students. SAIC Fashion students and/or Snow City kids Amy England’s SAIC summer class Sign, Image, Book # , producing a Zine for the web and distribution. Art Education Department: Therese Quinn’s Dialetical Practices # in collaboration with the new Multicultural Arts School and international schools (exchange projects) SAIC Feminist Group/ Screening/Deconstruction leading to art work over the summer for the web. SAIC International Group leading to artwork over the summer for the web. Proposed curriculum workshop for IAEA conference. opportunity for contribution from the field. -Exhibition open during the NAEA Chicago conference- collaborators could present and have NAEA members see the art on exhibit that was a result of their collaborative efforts. -Opportunity for critique from field.. Authors from Sign, Image, Book gallery read. World music/dance programming via Alycia Scott Performance Art

TYPE of METHODOLOGY Ethnography Ethno- methodology Website Practice: art making Practice: Collaborative art making Practice: Collaborative research -Critical Pedagogy -Focus Groups -Questionnaires -Interviews -Videography -Journaling -Participant Observation -Research -Response -Conclusions/Critiques Focus Groups-in preparation for collaborative groups. Possible artwork to serve as examplars on website. Questionnaires- determine past level of collaborative participation. Identify expectations, anxieties to provide assistance where possible. Participant Observation on various levels: in the classroom and in the gallery Journaling by participants capturing both the potential and problems inherent in collaborative practice. Video and/or audio interviews to obtain 1 st person account of collaborative experience. Over the summer, research further about the difference between ethnography and ethnomethodology.

Finalized Forms of Collaborative Production Visual Verbal Performative Strategies of collaborative artmaking Strategies to overcome problems in collaborative process. FINDINGS Recognition of insurmountable problems strategies to design future programs informed by success and failure of current practice. On display at the Betty Rymer Gallery and the #510: If the Shoe Fits…website Artwork -Juried artists’ books -Mural -Shoes by Snow City -Shoes by SAIC Fashion -??? -Exchange art projects(MAS/SAIC/International -Artwork produced by SAIC focus groups -Zine by SAIC writing class -Gallery artwork- postcards by CPS field trip students (gallery guests) On-line Curriculum -submitted via call for curriculum -submitted via IAEA conference -designed in collaboration for international exchange project by participating teachers (local/distant) Technological Documentation -Video and audio record of collaborative process. Gallery Programming -World Music/Dance -Author’s public readings -Performance Art ??? Critique -by SAIC participants -By international participants -by NAEA members -by SAIC faculty

PURPOSE -Curatorial -Research: Collaborative Art Making Process -Artworks -Viewers Website as Mediator Exhibition/Art Ed.Research - Curriculum design: test, critique,analyze -Educators local/distant -Students local/distant -SAIC action researchers -field trips gallery visit Collaborative Process: Presentation Proceedings Participants SOURCE -Contexts -Juried Artists -Betty Rymer Gallery -SAIC Departments Art Ed/Mural Video/docu. Designed Obj. Fashion/shoe Writing/zine SAIC/Focus Groups Feminist Potted Soil Website - SAIC Art Ed MAE/MAT as Action Researchers -Educators local/distant -Educational Administrators -Respondent Artworks -Panel/workshop IAEA Conference, October 05 NAEA Conference, March 06 Reactions: Participants, Researchers, and Theorists TYPE Ethnography Ethno- methodology Website Practice: Collaborative art making Practice: Collaborative research Practice: art making -Critical Pedagogy -Focus Groups -Interviews -Research -Response -Conclusions/Critiques Forms Visual Verbal Performative FINDINGS Exhibition/ Art Education Action Research Project Data Source and Type Interpretation