How can we create together when different worlds of experience and imagination meet? This workshop introduces the method of art facilitation and the principles of collective creation developed in the Jamming project, which breaks down boundaries between artists with intellectual disabilities, people on the autism spectrum, and academically trained creators. Shared painting, exchange, and new perspectives on artistic work with diverse groups.

Sprouts peeking from the soil, towering mulleins, fields of pink and yellow roses, mint and lemon balm whose scent carries on the breeze. Snails on leaves, lizards on stones, freshly cut grass, smoke from a chimney, fallen autumn leaves.

In our art jamming session at ALTA, we’ll be guided by scent. Do you have a favorite smell? Which flower smells like spring? Which one recalls a memory? Does the sea breeze smell better than freshly soaked earth?
And what if we planted all the world’s scents side by side?
Together, we’ll paint a garden bed where everything fragrant and not-so-fragrant, intense and gentle, fragile and grand, expansive and modest can bloom, grow, and coexist.