2021 Cohort
Claire Randall sought out and thrived in the collaborative creative process. So when the Continuum was founded as a way to both support artists and further Claire’s commitment to social justice, the idea of commissioning art that spoke to those themes through unique collaborative projects was a natural one.
For our second year, three pairs of artists were asked to create collaborative works on the theme of Commitment to Future Generations, in addition to the prompts below:
"Look at you put it to bed when you get tired,
You define forward if you so desire”
Claire Randall (lyric from “Scooby”)
Caili and Jackie co-wrote a composition with lyrics, incorporating a visual art component into the process as well.
Taylor and Johnnie explored the theme of commitment to future generations through a co-written song that also explores the cyclical nature of time itself.
Allison and Magdalena traded photography they shot in their respective neighborhoods to use as raw material for collage-style graphic scores and a game-based system for interpreting them. The resulting pieces were performed by their duo project, Umbrella Pine, along with collaborator Carla Kihlstedt, who has been an artistic inspiration for both Magdalena and Allison since meeting at the New England Conservatory.
2019 Cohort
Claire Randall sought out and thrived in the collaborative creative process. So when the Continuum was founded as a way to both support artists and further Claire’s commitment to social justice, the idea of commissioning art that spoke to those themes through unique collaborative projects was a natural one.
For our inaugural commission year, Claire’s friends and creative partners were asked to create work that reflected on the nature and meaning of community, and in a larger sense to reflect on Claire’s artistic legacy, buoyed by these prompts:
"Build a fire in
the night and I'll
find you..."
- Claire Randall,
"Sister Song"
Our collaborative work takes the scale of an experience in a room. Through visual, auditory, and spatial media, we leveraged our individual and shared ranges of expression to curate a shared story in a site-specific installation and event for exploration and coming together.
Taking inspiration from patterns found in nature and the work of Adrienne Maree Brown, we explored the small, possibly unnoticed, incremental shifts and layers that eventually form patterns that shape and change the whole. We are interested in how this dynamic reflects the way in which seemingly small acts of intimacy and kindness build fiercely tender community, deeply rooted in love and care.
