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ART LAB ONLINE PRO

for Expressive Artists & Expressive Arts Facilitators

Group 2024 running till December
New Group Starting January 2025

The ONLINE ART LAB PRO is a virtual art studio designed for an international community of expressive artists and expressive arts facilitators running since 2019. Every year the ONLINE ART LAB evolves and shape-shifts to serve and inspire its community of creators.
Drawing from the principles of Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts and Art Based Research, this ART BASED program aims to support participants’ personal artistic practice focusing on the creative process as a laboratory of experience to hold questions, experiment, engage the imagination, play, explore, discover, create, observe and reflect. Throughout the year, participants develop a personal artistic project. 

To nourish inspiration and activate creation the program combines 

  • guided inspirational artistic experiments
  • virtual studio time in group to develop personal artistic experiments
  • community sharing
  • work presentation
  • constructive feedback and mutual support
  • 2 individual coaching sessions with Roseline.

The group LABs weave hands-on analogue and digital art making with creative writing and journaling, artistic conversations and inspirational talks, the approach is interdisciplinary open to all artistic modalities: drawing, painting, mixed media art, creative writing /poetry as well as artistic rituals, installations, improvisations and performances. Projects might hybrid several modalities, techniques, subjects, mediums, styles or disciplines.

By the end of the year each participant will have created a portfolio / presentation of their artworks and written an artistic statement about their work and process. Participants might include artistic facilitation as a project in connection to their art practice, as well as Art Based Research, hybridisation and bridges with other disciplines.

ART LAB ONLINE PRO is for you if …

  • Artistic expression has an active role in your personal and professional life.
  • You have already established a committed art practice.
  • You need support to develop an artistic project or an art based research.
  • You are ready to engage with a community of artists & facilitators.
  • You are an expressive arts facilitator, coach, therapist, group leader looking for creative/artistic inspiration and nourishment for yourself and/or your professional practice.
  • You are a committed artist/creator looking for inspiration and support to nourish and anchor your art practice
  • You are already students in the ART LAB program … or part of the professional training for expressive arts facilitators
  • you are keen to bridge art with observation and consciousness.
  • You are committed to experience and share the transformative power of the arts and how they foster holistic consciousness

Cultivate the artist attitude and use your art practice as a research Lab

The ART LAB ONLINE PRO program will give you tools for:

  • Anchoring and nourishing your art practice
  • Strengthening your artistic voice and aesthetic vocabulary
  • Letting go of assumptions, pre-conceived ideas, evaluation & judgements
  • Developing an attitude of inquiry and open curiosity
  • Sensitizing to art materials & artistic modalities
  • Practicing artistic transfer 
  • Using aesthetic analysis & creative journaling to guide your artistic process
  • Bridging body heart mind & soul awareness
  • Presencing, experiencing deep seeing and listening

Project STEP 1
Hoard your attractors and define your artistic frame

  • Following your attractors and what is alive in you to find your personal voice and guide your creative process
  • Working with space, time, frame and limitations
  • Clarifying your subject, theme and intention/direction
  • Sensitizing to visual language & symbolic language

Project STEP 2
Embrace the process

  • Experiencing the creative forces of flow & structure, chaos & order, intention & accident, details & overall composition
  • Navigating the unexpected and the not knowing
  • Fostering synchronicity 
  • Meeting the mystery of the relationship between yourself and your artwork 
  • Building up your own artistic vocabulary and skills
  • Becoming aware of the subtle balance pf composition: repetitions & variations, empty & full, busy & quiet, form & no form, finished & unfinished
  • Dialoguing with your art & your inner critic
  • Develop your observation / writing practice

Project STEP 3
Break through blockages and dead-end situations

  • Transforming your inner critic into an efficient observer/collaborator
  • Extending your range of play and allowing take 2
  • Engaging your imagination, discovering new links to foster emergence and innovation
  • Transforming accidents, mistakes, challenges, randomness into opportunities for new
  • Transferring to other art modalities/disciplines to uncover hidden layers within your work
  • De-centering and shifting perspective
  • De-constructing & re-constructing
  • Changing your gestalt or perception of your work
  • Using the mirror of the other

Project STEP 4
Communicate and present your artwork/project

  • Deepening your phenomenological observation – extended consciousness – of your creative process
  • Using different art modalities to extend your means of communication about the work
  • Becoming familiar with the practice of aesthetic analysis
  • Using creative writing as a starting point to develop content texts
  • Embracing full aesthetic responsibility for your work
  • Harvesting meaningful insights and transfer them to your life or or to professional projects.

Project STEP 5
Collaborate with others and grow

  • Being witnessed and seen by other fellow creators in a supportive environment
  • Fostering artistic conversations around your creation and others’ creation to discover the full spectrum of your creative process
  • Using group dynamic, phenomenological mirroring, aesthetic response, creative exchange, and human connections

PROGRAM YEAR 2025

MAIN MEMBERSHIP
40h of presence online / 200h + self study

5 SEEDLABs
3h live online guided artistic experiments during which we all create “seed artworks” that serve as starting points to inspire personal art projects in the following weeks.
Sessions include:

  • Short meditation & visualisation, embodied explorations & warm up, play & sensitising
  • Music Playlist
  • Guided live creation experiments with a set of art materials
  • Creative sharing, witnessing and feedback

5 OPENLABs
3h live online in which participants create artworks that are part of their personal artistic project.
Sessions include:

  • Short meditation, guided warm up/sensitising
  • Music Playlist
  • Creation time: participants design their own artistic experiment and work with the art materials /art modalities of their choice
  • Creative sharing, witnessing and feedback

7 INSPIRATIONAL VIDEOS
from Roseline, to inspire and support your artistic process.

1 INDIVIDUAL COACHING SESSIONS of 1h with Roseline

10 Spotify fresh PlayLists for your practice.

Private Facebook Group to share your process.

Study buddy for mutual support

Private course page on website with recordings and videos.

Presentation of participants’ projects on ART LAB webpage

EXTRA “DROP IN” MiniLABs
24 h online presence

4  Digital Creation MiniLABs
1h30 live online with facilitator Mischa Fulljames and team

4  Creative Writing MiniLABs 

1h30 live online with facilitator Emmanuelle Pass and team

7 Sharing circles with facilitator Dies van der Sande


Click here to see the list of basic art materials you will need
  • 20/25 sheets of white paper + 2 sheets of black paper 200g or/and 250g   size around 50 x 70cm or 19 x 27 inches. These sheets will serve as a base to draw, paint & collage. The size doesn’t need to be exact as each country has different standards. 250g is better for paint while 200g is better for collages, so if you can get both qualities.

  • A pack of sheets of WHITE A4 100 gr + some sheets of A4 colour paper of your choice. Choose at least 3 or 4 colours you like. Optional A4 white Rice paper.

  • At least 5 sheets of thin tissue paper some white + some colours of your choice

  • A range of coloured pastels either oil and/or watercolour (water soluble)

  • Your favourite pencils, crayons, markers or felt tip pens

  • Along the year you will create 1 (or more) creative journal /inspirational scrapbook. You could make the base yourself with some of the large white sheet or find a large drawing book with white pages that you would like to use as a base. Both options can also be mixed. There will be an inspirational video about that in February

  • A range of basic acrylic paints in large tubes (at least black white red blue yellow + green orange + optional some extra colours that you love)

  • Tools: brushes (thin to large at least 3 sizes), sponge, spatulas, optional small roller

  • Scissors and cutter

  • 500 ml white glue + 1 sticker glue

  • I also recommend for mixed media collage: satinated varnish glue (works well with all kind of paper) and/or acrylic medium for thicker materials. 

  • Some meters of string, a basic sawing kit with thick wool needle 

  • 1 Paper tape roll

  • Some plasticine (polymer clay) white or coloured – or natural clay – 500 gr or 1kg

  • A neutral white mask in cardboard

  • 2 or 3 cardboard boxes (recycling) that you like, we will use them in different ways for creation.

  • ATTRACTORS :
    One (or more) cork board + pins to create attractors board
    1 or more boxes (recycling) to keep your attractors such as: Images, wrapping paper, pieces of fabric, natural materials, recycling bits, objects, old toys etc… Any thing that draws your attention as something that could be used in your art.
    Anything else that you have from your own studio and art supply stash that inspires you

  • A small tripod for your phone/camera (optional) + Printer (optional) 

  • For the Digital Zoom Labs you will need a computer + your phone or tablette

  • A colour printer to print your own created images is cool …

REGISTRATION COSTS FOR THE ALL YEAR PROGRAM

MAIN MEMBERSHIP
300 euros

“Drop In” MiniLABs & Sharing circles 
200 euros full program or pay as you go.


Registration opening now for 2025
To apply send a motivation letter via contact, it will eventually be followed by an online interview to discuss your application. The group will be limited to a maximum of committed 15 participants.

CALENDAR

The ART LAB ONLINE PRO detailed CALENDAR 2025 will be posted here soon.
All Labs are on Thursdays starting @ 5pm CET on Zoom


Click here to read participants testimonials

“The art assignments allowed for amazing transformation for me. Yes, they were intense, lots of work, but I wouldn’t want it any other way. It was all this hard work that allowed for deep, thoughtful, meaningful work. I worked really intensely for 3 months, mostly on your class. What emerged for me felt like a year’s worth of experience and unexpected, immense forward movement.” Cristina from USA  – Web designer & artist

“The Art Lab experience with Roseline was a wonderful 3 months process, a journey of exploration and discovery, creative and personal. Roseline’s personality drive and commitment make the course flow and happen for everyone. She is also a compassionate woman, this comes through in her interactions, there is a caring supporting nature that holds the group and at the same time drives them forward.” Satty from Netherlands – Yoga teacher & artist

“The lab experience was a great gift! It helped me to move through the darkness and refresh my creativity in an embodied way finding new tools and company to move along through the difficult months of the COVID pandemia.
It was wonderful to share with you and so many other artists from different parts of the world. It seemed magical, that in the midst of so much pain and restrictions going on worldwide, we could share such an enlivening, creative and inspiring experience to go on creating, learning and responding to our deep selves and to the world´s need….In EXA terms, we could say that your lab promoted POIESIS at its best. Thank you very much, Roseline!”. Pilar from Peru – Expressive art teacher, art therapist & artist

“It was inspiring and enriching to have the opportunity to be part of your workshop. It gave me a frame to research and step into the world of visual arts with its many possibilities. I loved to experiment with colours and get to know  different art materials, to learn how to work on a piece over a period of time and develop it, working with collage gathering images which spoke to me and see what would enfold out of it. The teaching about art and the documentaries were very inspiring and gave me new insights.” Sandra from Spain – Dancer and dance retreat facilitator

“This Art Lab came at just the right moment for me, during the Covid quarantine and in a moment of processing the passing of my father. It felt like a moment to reconnect to my inner creativity and find release and flow of emotions. I thoroughly enjoyed Roseline’s methods of deconstruction and harvesting our work. I made discoveries and surprised myself in the process of letting go of expectations. I loved how we started each session with meditation and connection to our body, mind and soul. The incorporation of movement also helped to loosen up and work with freedom. This lab has pushed all the buttons and set me off on my art journey again. I feel a lot of inspiration. Thank you Roseline!” Mischa from Spain – Visual artist & musician

“The diversity of the participants and the new connections I have developed through the course have been extremely enriching.  Roseline, your ability to be present and to witness everyone in a meaningful way is inspiring.
While taking the class I was kayaking down a river and reached a small area of faster moving water, which was also shallow. I was worried I might hit bottom and get stuck there. I could feel my body tense up and brace itself. I then remembered that the water will flow where there is least resistance so I took a deep breath, let go, lifted my paddle out of the water, and just allowed the faster flowing water to guide me and my kayak down the river. That is what your class has helped me learn, not to resist the bumpy parts, let go, and trust that I will make it to the other side. As a consequence I have started a new series of paintings that I am feel are some of the best I have made. Thank you.”  Sylvia from USA – Psychiatrist & artist

“In Roseline’s workshops I was able to let go of my pre-conceived ideas and limitations to create meaningful and valuable art works I would have never imagine I was capable of” Oscar from Spain – Language teacher


Professionals interested in completing the Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts Accredited Training Certificate with the European Graduate School check course page (link below) & contact me

Watch videos presenting participants’ final artworks from the LAB 2023 & 2022

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