FESTIVAL SUMMARY:

• YOUR TEAMMATES: Sign up below. We’ll match you to a collaborative art-making team. In the adult section, each team may have about 4–5 visual artists, art-making enthusiasts, and other members of the community. Or in the family section, parents and kids from 2–3 families participate together.
• YOUR ARTWORK: Each team creates one collaborative artwork, on the theme: mutual compassion, empathy, respect, and friendship across boundaries or differences. Each artwork is either a 3-D mobile or a 2-D patchwork/collage. Use found materials to create your artwork; we provide an initial supply.
• TEAM MEETINGS: Meet with your team at least 3 times during October and November. First meeting, all teams together, is on Saturday, October 5. Your team sets its own schedule; we can provide venues.
• ART-MAKING: We provide suggested prompts for team discussion – on our theme, on art-making, and on the artwork components that you make. Your team creates an overall design, and delegates components to you and your teammates. Between team meetings, you make your components.

• EXHIBITION: On December 12, the Festival will have a well-publicized exhibition opening for the artworks, at Montclair Art Museum. Some of the artworks will remain on exhibition at MAM through January 5. The exhibition of others will move to galleries and storefronts in Montclair.
• OUTCOME: We hope this will be a fun and worthwhile way for you to develop authentic, in-person social connections with Montclair-area neighbors in your team. We hope your participation will deepen and strengthen our feelings of community.