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ART LAB ONLINE PRO

for Expressive Artists & Expressive Arts Facilitators

Group 2024 running till December
Registration Open for 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 and find support for their art practice as artists and facilitators.

To nourish inspiration and activate creation the program combines:

  • virtual studio session with guided hands-on artistic experiments
  • virtual studio session to develop your personal artistic project
  • virtual studio session to deepen personal projects through digital creative tools and creative writing
  • community sharing
  • work presentations
  • constructive feedback and mutual support

The group LABs weave hands-on analogue and digital art making with creative writing and journaling, artistic conversations and inspiration. 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. Personal 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 plays an active role in your personal and professional life.
  • You are a committed artist/creator looking for inspiration and support to nourish and anchor your personal art practice.
  • You are an expressive arts facilitator, coach, therapist, group leader looking for creative/artistic inspiration and nourishment for yourself and your professional practice.
  • You are wishing to engage and share with a community of artists & art facilitators.
  • You need support to develop an artistic project or an art based research.
  • You are already student/participant/facilitator in the ART LAB expressive arts program.
  • You are keen to bridge art making with observation and consciousness.
  • You are committed to experience and share the transformative power of the arts and how they foster holistic non anthropocentric consciousness.

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

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

  • Anchor and nourish your art practice
  • Become intimate with your source of inspiration
  • Strengthen your artistic voice and aesthetic vocabulary
  • Embrace the creative process, not knowing and the unexpected
  • Let go of assumptions, pre-conceived ideas, evaluation & judgements
  • Develop an attitude of inquiry and open curiosity
  • Shift your inner critic into a constructive collaborator/observor
  • Sensitize to art materials & artistic modalities
  • Practice interdisciplinary transfers
  • Bridge  hands-on practices with digital creation
  • Use aesthetic analysis & creative writing to deepen your artistic process and be able to communicate about your work
  • Align body heart mind & soul awareness to create meaningful work from the whole of your being
  • Cultivate presence, deep seeing and listening in your own practice, with other fellow artists and with the world we are entangled in

    PROGRAM YEAR 2025

     6 PROJECT LABS with Roseline – 18h presencial

    3 Seed LABs
    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.
    Each session includes:

    • Short meditation & visualisation, embodied explorations & warm up, play & sensitising
    • Guided creation experiments with music playlist
    • Creative sharing, witnessing and feedback

    3 Open LABs
    3h live online in which participants create artworks that are part of their personal artistic project.
    Each session includes:

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

     CREATIVE SUPPORT MiniLABs & Sharing Circles with Art Lab Team – 23h presencial

    5  Digital Creation MiniLABs  with facilitator Mischa Fulljames
    1h30 art based guided sessions to:

    • experiment with digital creative apps,
    • bridge analogue and digital creation
    • further your artistic exploration
    • document and present your artwork digitally

    5  Creative Writing MiniLABs with facilitator Emmanuelle Passes
    1h30 art based guided sessions to:

    • deepen our observation of the creative process
    • stimulate imagination
    • experience how to dialogue with the artwork to nourish your creative process with poetic writing and stream of consciousness
    • develop language around your artistic process to communicate about your work

    5 Sharing circles with facilitator Dies Van Der Sande holding the space and receive personal feedback from Roseline
    1h30 to 2h sessions to:

    • share about your creative process: framing, direction & challenges.
    • connect with other participants
    • experience deep listening
    • receive feedback & support

    Expressive arts facilitators interested to co-facilitate Mini Labs in collaboration with Mischa or Emmanuelle can apply when registering. 

    PERSONAL PROJECT – minimum 100h of personal art practice

    Assignments: Participants commit to create and share a minimum of 5 ALBUMS documenting & presenting their personal art project(s) / practice. As part of the assignments participants will have to document, comment and share the artworks they create during the Labs.
    Albums are posted in our private Facebook group between the Project Labs, preferably before the Sharing Circles.

    Private Facebook Group to share our albums and process, to interact and share inspiration.

    Study buddy for mutual support.

    Presentation of participants’ projects on the ART LAB webpage at the end of the year.

    EXTRA BONUS

    Private course page on website with a library of all inspirational & tutorials videos created since 2019.

    Project Labs & Mini Labs will be recorded.

    6 Spotify playlists: 2h of great music compiled by Roseline to be enjoyed while creating.

    Click here to see a list of basic art materials

    • 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. 

    • 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

    YEARLY MEMBERSHIP
    370 euros
    INCLUDING ALL THE ABOVE
    6 Project Labs, 5 Digital MiniLabs, 5 Creative Writing MiniLabs, 5 Sharing Circles, Private Community Webpage & FB group

    Registration is open 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 15 committed participants.

    Send a message now to apply

    CALENDAR

    Click here to see the Art Labs Online full Calendar 2025

    13/02 – PROJECT LAB 1
    Attractors, inquiry, experiment

    27/02 – DIGITAL MINI LAB 1
    Digital photography & digital collage (Snapseeds / Procreate)

    13/03 – SHARING CIRCLE 1

    27/03 – CREATIVE WRITING MINI LAB 1 
    Observation of process & surface of artworks

    10/04 – PROJECT LAB 2
    Framing & process

    24/04 – DIGITAL MINI LAB 2
    Creative journal & scrapbooking – Bridging digital & hands-on

    15/05 – CREATIVE WRITING MINI LAB 2 
    Words collage – Working with the unexpected 

    05/06 – SHARING CIRCLE 2

    19/06 – PROJECT LAB 3
    Challenges & shifts of perspective – Modality transfer

    10/07 – DIGITAL MINI LAB 3
    Stop Motion – Installation / Performance – Working with Body & Objects

    24/07 – CREATIVE WRITING MINI LAB 3
    Poetry & story telling – Voicing

    07/08 – SHARING CIRCLE 3

    28/08 – PROJECT LAB 4
    Project observation / direction – What is it I am doing?

    11/09 – CREATIVE WRITING MINI LAB 4 
     Dialogue with image – Voicing

    25/09 – DIGITAL MINI LAB 4
    Canvas – Presenting your work  (photos, text … pdf, flyers)

    09/10 – SHARING CIRCLE 4

    23/10 – PROJECT LAB 5
    Deepening, finalising our work

    06/11 – CREATIVE WRITING MINI LAB 5
    Writing about my work & process – Voicing

    20/11 – DIGITAL MINI LAB 5
    CapCut – Sound & images video creation

    04/12 – SHARING CIRCLE 5

    18/12 – PROJECT LAB 6
    Closing

    All Labs are on Thursdays starting @ 5pm CET on Zoom

    PERSONAL PROJECT

    During the year we will progressively develop our personal project drawing from the principles of Expressive Arts. Here are some of the essential steps:

    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

    THE LAB 2025 – MEET ROSELINE & DIES

    A video from Roseline about the LAB 2025

    A testimonial interview from Dies about her experience in the LAB. Dies is a coach & expressive art facilitator from the Art Lab Team.

    Professionals interested in completing the Expressive Arts Professional Training for facilitators, accredited by the European Graduate School check course page (link below) & contact me

    LEARN MORE ABOUT THE Expressive Arts Training for ProfessionalS
    Learn more about the program of art workshops @ Ibiza Studio
    Learn more about one to one coaching & mentoring sessions

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

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