Collective leads Interactive Project at Montreal's Agora Festif Arts Festival
If you missed this year's Agora festif, a dynamic one-night Montreal arts festival, make sure you make next year's. At the May event, which drew an estimated 5,000 visitors, The Art Collective led a collaborative art making project that involved more than 100 people drawing and painting together.
Collective members Stephanie Reynolds, Robert Turenne, Chan Tchen and Robert Winters co-ordinated the crowd's artistic endeavours and selected pieces which were ready to be placed on the Interactive Wall, a standard feature of our shows. While electronic music pulsed through the sports complex, a light show and a mist in the air created a magical atmosphere, providing a dream-like showcase for a wide variety of creative talents, including performance art, dance and body painting.
Participants in The Collective's project worked at three long tables, using permanent ink materials and acid-free paper provided by the group.
The Collective's collaborative art making project at Agora festif was co-sponsored by Concordia University's Fine Arts Student Alliance, the university's Art Matters Festival, the school's Studio Arts Department and the VAV Gallery, which helped provide materials for participants to use. Each of the co-sponsors was highlighed and thanked on the Agora's television monitors at the event, which provided participants with information about what was taking place.