FROM 2D to 3D: Creating Collaborative, Hybrid Work in the Time of Isolation and Beyond

FROM 2D to 3D: Creating Collaborative, Hybrid Work in the Time of Isolation and Beyond

FROM 2D TO 3D is a three-week, remote course that brings together recent graduates from disparate media. Designed for CalArts graduates from the Class of 2015-2020, participants will be challenged to explore cross-disciplinary, collaborative work, and harness tools to engage artistically during this current crisis and beyond. Led by Ellen Reid (Music MFA 2011) and Roxie Perkins of the Pulitzer Prize-winning p r i s m, FROM 2D TO 3D will involve daily prompts, creative tasks, and assignments that serve to investigate the creative impulse and dissolve boundaries between disciplines. 

• Class will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:00 pm-5:00 pm PST from July 7th-23rd.

• Participants will be expected to engage with each other on a daily basis and to develop a project over the course’s three-week time span. 

• All participants must be present at each weekly group meeting and viewing session, where participants will be expected to share their work-in-progress. 

This course will empower participants with tools to help them work collaboratively with artists from other disciplines, manage their projects from inception to completion, and confidently present and pitch their ideas.

Week 1: July 7th and 9th

• Collaborative Work: Share your primary medium (the work you usually make) and see how that can come into contact and combine with your collaborator's medium.
• Creative Expansion: Explore the value of stretching into new mediums or new roles in the same medium. Discover how your "bad" ideas can lead to good ideas or demonstrate what was even better about other ideas. Explore ideas that seem "impossible."
• Project Management: Talk about the challenges of collaboration and what you can do to overcome those challenges.
• Present Your Work: Create a one-minute elevator pitch.

Week 2: July 14th and 16th

• Collaborative Work: Develop the core of the work and, as a group, make an excerpt that feels exemplary of the core.
• Creative Expansion: Explore what scares you about your idea and how it is pushing forward your work and the way you define yourself as an artist.
• Project Management: Imagine the most idealistic production scenario. What is the dream of how you would put your project into the world?
• Present Your Work: Make an artistic asset and write a press release for your project.

Week 3: July 21st and 23rd

• Collaborative Work: Take your project and make it able to be experienced now in a meaningful way.
• Creative Expansion: Explore how to receive and interpret feedback.
• Project Management: Consider the project experience from the audience’s perspective. Learn how to work through changes and limitations.
• Present Your Work: Choose how you want your work presented to the group.

COST: one-time registration fee of $20 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 26 at noon

Roxie Perkins is an artist who writes and directs for theatre, opera, TV, and film. She is the librettist of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera "p r i s m" and the winner of The Music Critics Association of North America's 2019 "Best New Opera" Award as well as a nominee for “Best World Premiere” at the International Opera Awards of 2020. “p r i s m” was released as an album through Universal's Decca Gold label and was featured on NPR’s list of the “Best Classical Music of the Decade.”

Roxie has been awarded a Sundance Playwright Fellowship, and her plays have been a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Conference as well as for the Princess Grace Award. Her writing has been nominated to The Kilroy's "THE LIST" and We For She’s “WriteHer List,” annual rankings of the best-unproduced plays and original TV pilots by women. She directed “Green Umbrella: Theatre of the Outrageous,” a program of three short operas performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Her work has appeared at The Kennedy Center's DIRECT CURRENT Festival, REDCAT, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York Philharmonic, Jazz at Lincoln Center, PROTOTYPE Festival, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA Opera, Opera Omaha's ONE Festival, Cutting Ball Theater, A Noise Within's "Noise Now" Artist Residency, Crowded Fire Theater's Matchbox Reading Series, The Tank NYC, The LARK’s Roundtable Reading Series, On The Verge Summer Repertory Theater, and internationally at Theatro Municipal in São Paulo.  “p r i s m”’s production in São Paulo was nominated for the 2019 Prêmio CONCERTO Award for Best Opera Production in Brazil.

Roxie has worked as a Visiting Lecturer at UCLA's School of Theatre, Film, and Television, a Teaching Artist at Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre, and a Visiting Artist at California State Summer School for the Arts at CalArts.

Ellen Reid is one of the most innovative artists of her generation. A composer and sound artist whose breadth of work spans opera, sound design, film scoring, ensemble, and choral writing, she was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera, "p r i s m".

Along with composer Missy Mazzoli, Ellen co-founded the Luna Composition Lab. Luna Lab is a mentorship program for young, female-identifying, non-binary, and gender non-conforming composers. Since the fall of 2019, she has served as Creative Advisor and Composer-in-Residence for Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

Ellen received her BFA from Columbia University and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She is inspired by music from all over the globe, and she splits her time between her two favorite cities – Los Angeles and New York. Her music is released on Decca Gold.