Collaboratory

Elsewhere’s living museum is a playground for material and conceptual explorations that activate concepts through hands-on experimentations. Through tours, skill shares, salons, and creative retreats Elsewhere unfolds classroom concepts with process play and collaborative projects that grow learning communities.

collaborative curricula

Elsewhere’s Collaborative Directors work with teachers to design hands-on curricula that utilize the museum to extend classroom investigations. Elsewhere’s founders and Collaborative Directors, George Scheer and Stephanie Sherman, apply their knowledge of philosophy, art, literature, social practice, critical theory, and collaborative process to all Collaboratory programming. Wherever possible, we create intersections between class objectives and projects led by visiting creatives working on-site. Collaborative Director George Scheer holds BA in Communication, MA in Critical Theory, and is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies. Collaborative Director Stephanie Sherman holds a BA in 20th Century Literature and an MA in Critical Theory.

creative retreats for advanced creatives

Collaboratory retreats are two to seven day courses designed for university groups and advanced learning communities that develop collaborative exchanges and creative practices through site-specific experiments and discursive play. Immersed in an environment of ongoing creative intervention, students participate in an unfolding investigation of site, collection, production, and collaborative practice, drawing upon critical texts and concepts to reflect and guide hands-on applications. The collaboratory explores how curatorial approaches, media experimentation, and social resource ecologies and evaluations form networks that underpin creative and conceptual investigative processes.

Salon style discussions re(mark) theoretical texts as applied expressions within Elsewhere’s museum. Frank discussions about audience, non-profit management, and the inner-workings of running an artist residency, are distinctively integrated into considerations of creative practice and textual analysis.

elsewhere goes everywhere

Collaborative Directors George Scheer and Stephanie Sherman offer a performative presentation of Elsewhere, detailing the history of Elsewhere’s creation and the collaborative development of the living museum. Accompanied with studio visits for both graduate and undergraduate students, Elsewhere’s directors offer students a new expression for collaborative creativity and contemporary approaches to professional-artistic growth. Past engagements include talks Cambridge University, Duke University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Appalachian State University, and SFU in Vancouver, Canada.

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