Hallie Sanclemente Morrison

After the first pandemic-response Restoration Lab series with Studio M*, Hallie Sanclemente Morrison continued to facilitate and offer Spontaneous Creation Making gatherings virtually and in-person from 2020-2022. Meeting regularly to communally experience Spontaneous Creation Making felt incredibly healing for Hallie and others, and it helped continue the positive ripple effect of cultivating respective, satellite sanctuary spaces for the growing SCM network. Hallie found great personal growth in aspects of self-trust and optimism through creative “wit(h)nessing” and creating safe spaces through SCM–despite the immense, ongoing, collective feeling of fear induced by the pandemic and colonial oppression (Ettinger.) Hallie continues to offer SCM one-on-one with close friends, and implements elements of SCM in their community organizing with Indigenous communities throughout the US. 

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Gregory Wendt

Improvising and creating spontaneous works in any medium is Gregory’s specialty. The goal of Gregory’s Spontaneous Creation Making workshops is to give participants a chance to spontaneously create in a safe, non-judgmental space, with no preconceived notions or “skills,” and to share their experiences of the process and results of their work. A variety of materials for painting, drawing, and collage are provided, and participants are free to bring their own materials as well.

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Adrienne Adams

Since her experiences with SCM, Adrienne Adams has informally incorporated some of the practice into how she keeps in touch with her friends–one friend in particular, with whom they meet over Zoom weekly. Spontaneously and occasionally, she will invite her other creative friends to join on a group Zoom. The main goals are to keep in touch with each other as friends, connect, and support and appreciate each other’s creative practices. The main thing that is done every time, is the of lighting a candle together at the beginning and end of each session, pulling cards, and or using bibliomancy to reflect on life and provide a lens to share with each other and co-creation. Sometimes, this takes the form of doing art alongside each other while visiting, and then each sharing and appreciating what the other has done; sometimes, this involves cooking together; sometimes, one is focused on painting rocks and the other on sorting seeds. The main point is connection, support, and appreciation of each other and each other’s creativity. Sometimes, eating together is involved. This is a fun and supportive way to stay in touch and ensure we are all creating on a regular basis. It is very nurturing and mutually beneficial. Adrienne appreciates her time and study with more formal SCM groups, and how these practices then inform her online friendships, connections, and creativity in many ways.

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Laura Lee McCartney & Kate Wurtzel

As a way to begin taking art-care into their communities, Dr. Laura Lee McCartney and Dr. Kate Wurtzel collaborated with two of their pre-service art education classes and engaged in Spontaneous Creation Making sessions over the course of one semester. During that semester, students met and created art over Zoom four times, where they were provided with specific art making materials and open-ended Spontaneous Creation Making prompts. The evolving artworks from the Zoom sessions were then passed between Texas and North Carolina several times and modified from student to student, making the final outcome surprising and unpredictable. Students were invited to reflect on the monthly SCM experiences and shared narratives about the importance of protecting time and space to be artist-educators in their practice. Students also envisioned ways to incorporate SCM tools and maps into their future teaching with K-12 students.