Play! See! Tell!
A five-day workshop developed by Eva Gonçalves and Alexandra Klobouk and held at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau. The workshop consists of a series of mixed-media exercises designed to push students out of their comfort zones, challenge expectations and free them from the pressure of a perfectly finished result.
The workshop is divided into three moments, each of which starts with a prompt. In Moment I, "Play!", we slowly built a shared image bank, a series of diverse and open-ended drawings resulting from two days of multiple short and seemingly random exercises. In Moment II, "See!", we reflected on the results of our two days of experimentation, the challenges each participant faced, and their difficulties in letting go and facing the blank page. We tried to translate each deeply unique experience into an idea, a sentence. Finally, in the third and final moment, "Tell!", the students explored storytelling by thinking about how to translate their experiences and learnings into a story, and that story into a publication. Students were free to use elements from the shared image bank and to freely incorporate any of these drawings or elements into their illustrations. By playing with the combined power of drawing and writing, they learned how to use illustration for editorial purposes and how to make a magazine.
By the end of the seminar, each student had a copy of the collaborative illustrated magazine, something to take away from the experience and return to whenever they needed a little push.
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Play! See! Tell!
A five-day workshop developed by Eva Gonçalves and Alexandra Klobouk and held at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau. The workshop consists of a series of mixed-media exercises designed to push students out of their comfort zones, challenge expectations and free them from the pressure of a perfectly finished result.
The workshop is divided into three moments, each of which starts with a prompt. In Moment I, "Play!", we slowly built a shared image bank, a series of diverse and open-ended drawings resulting from two days of multiple short and seemingly random exercises. In Moment II, "See!", we reflected on the results of our two days of experimentation, the challenges each participant faced, and their difficulties in letting go and facing the blank page. We tried to translate each deeply unique experience into an idea, a sentence. Finally, in the third and final moment, "Tell!", the students explored storytelling by thinking about how to translate their experiences and learnings into a story, and that story into a publication. Students were free to use elements from the shared image bank and to freely incorporate any of these drawings or elements into their illustrations. By playing with the combined power of drawing and writing, they learned how to use illustration for editorial purposes and how to make a magazine.
By the end of the seminar, each student had a copy of the collaborative illustrated magazine, something to take away from the experience and return to whenever they needed a little push.
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1170-234 Lisboa
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10999 Berlin
Germany
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Eva Gonçalves Studio
Rua do Mato Grosso 11a
1170-234 Lisboa
Portugal
Lausitzer Str. 11
10999 Berlin
Germany
For project enquiries,
commissions or collaborations,
please get in touch:
studio@evagoncalves.com
+49 (0) 176 568 081 61
© Eva Gonçalves Studio 2023