"Collaboration is a calling to work with and for others in the service of something that transcends artistic ego and, as such, has to do with love, survival, generosity, and a conversation in which the terms of language are multidimensional. I always work with people around me because it's a way to be in the world together and to make something that has intrinsic value. It is a statement of connection, camaraderie, and it also goes beyond a particular relationship or duet and becomes what William Burroughs called 'the third mind."
-Anne Waldman-
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"Whatever the scope of your plans, the important thing, of course, is to begin."
-Susan Karwoska-
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"A time limit encourages quick, intuitive decision making."
-Rosalind Pace & Marcia Simon-
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"once they have discovered their theme, [students] will be amazed at how everything becomes relevant to it."
-Rosalind Pace & Marcia Simon-
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"Establishing the conviction within a student that he or she is creative is the critical first step... In the Image-Making workshop this belief emerges in two ways: when the student sees his or her own personal style or "signature" emerge in the verbal and the visual work, and when the student sees that the work has meaning and significance to others."
-Rosalind Pace & Marcia Simon-
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"The two of us teach after the fact, as opposed to the conventional practice that begins with the goal (or the rationale) followed by examples. The students work first so intuition can operate freely, and later learn the why. We give simple instructions that allow students to work directly with the materials. Only after the work is done do we respond to it. Our responses are always based on finding the uniqueness in each work-- not what we think it out to be, but what is there."
-Rosalind Pace & Marcia Simon-
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"As teachers, of course, we never tell the students that they are going to do exciting work, that it will be a lot of fun and that they will learn important things about themselves. Nothing would be more intimidating... The excitement comes afterwards, when we help them to see what they have done. When students begin, on their own, to see possibilities in the material that they had not seen before, they cross the line from being doers to becoming makers."
-Rosalind Pace & Marcia Simon-
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"In the structure of true education, creativity is the foundation, and not the ornament."
-Rosalind Pace & Marcia Simon-
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"The William Burroughs Fold-in: Take two different pages from an outside text (magazine, article or book) and cut each in half vertically. Paste the mismatched pages together. Then create a new text."
-Anne Waldman-
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"We have unwittingly brought the habits of channel-surfing to bear in the space of the gallery. We act as though art should strike us immediately, or not at all. We simply catch a glimpse and consume another image."
-Scott Herndon & Kristin Deombek-
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