community collaboration
capacity- and community-building interactive experiences
Significant Developments works with a lead group of participants from your community to develop interactive, creative experiences in which self-identified considerations and challenges are explored directly and indirectly. When possible, the experiences themselves prototype solutions.
Working through difficult circumstances or defined problems requires trust and a sense of belonging to the work together. Through collaborative experiences, your community can engage real and perceived barriers in new ways which disrupt ingrained assumptions, opening up space for fresh perspectives rooted in deeper, interpersonal understanding.
Mississippi Department of Transportation
Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception.
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Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception.
Building off the curriculum of the Audubon Center, johnson built a community project with 8th grade students from St. Martin Middle School which invited their friends and neighbors to see themselves as members of the Coastal Streams Watershed community. johnson led field trips of the Audubon Center wetlands discussing the impacts of climate change on the immediate watershed and neighborhoods, then developed a week-long art engagement alongside the students which was then held at the Walter Anderson Museum studios. johnson and the students developed press molds to create a series of watershed sculptures they could gift to their community at an interactive presentation at the museum which included story sharing, watershed education, a gifting ceremony, and an interactive Uno-derived card game to win additional sculptures! Five months.
This project was part of Wide Horizons, a program of art, science, and action for 8th grade students on the Gulf Coast. The program’s activities blend marine science, environmental history, geography, and multimedia self-expression in order to deepen understanding about the environmental and societal importance of the Gulf of Mexico, its landscapes, and its wildlife.
Mississippi Department of Transportation, 2017
Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception. Four months.
This project was part of the ArtPlace Community Development Investments. ArtPlace worked to enlist artists as allies in equitable community planning and development.
This project was part of the ArtPlace Community Development Investments. ArtPlace worked to enlist artists as allies in equitable community planning and development.
This project was part of the ArtPlace Community Development Investments. ArtPlace worked to enlist artists as allies in equitable community planning and development.
This project was part of the ArtPlace Community Development Investments. ArtPlace worked to enlist artists as allies in equitable community planning and development
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Mississippi Department of Transportation
Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception.
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Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception.
Mississippi Department of Transportation
Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception.
Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception.
Mississippi Department of Transportation
Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception.
Working with the Directors and elders of the six City of Jackson Senior Centers, johnson led a team of artists to hold storytelling engagements with over 100 participants followed by workshops where elders painted their own compositions to accompany their stories. Four sessions at each center insured that participants were not rushed in their process.
johnson collaborated with the Jackson Medical Mall Environmental Services crew to host an exhibition of the paintings displayed alongside the text of their stories. All elders were transported to the mall for a reception.
Significant Developments produced Core Sample as part of the museum’s annual community art series. Approached as a research and development exercise for their series C3: Creativity. Conversation. Community, Significant Developments wove together converging ideas from the museum’s Marketing, Participation, and Education staff to create an integrated engagement prototyping new program and exhibition formats alongside new state-wide outreach and museum classroom participation strategies. With interviews of the entire staff, assessments of organizational and programming documents, and two state-wide listening tours, our team designed a project which activated an ongoing assembly-line style art engagement in the museum studios with supplementary programming adaptable to the themes and goals of local organizations while yielding a 12-foot tall wind chime in The Art Garden featuring the handiwork and marks of over 1000 Mississippians from 60 different cities across the state. Eight months.
daniel@significantdevelopments.us