STUDIO SESSION (September 2025) with Rosanna Martin
Careful Playgrounds
This session is scheduled for Wednesdays, September 10, 17, 24, and **October 1 from 9-11am PST (that’s Los Angeles time).
Registration is $250 and includes all four sessions.
Participants gather via Zoom.
About the Studio Session
What is play? And what does one need in order to play well? How can play nurture and sustain a creative practice? The Cambridge Dictionary defines play as engaging in an ‘activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose.’ What if we were to take play seriously, and to find new ways to give it practical purpose?
My 3 year old son says “I think I might want to do that” each time he thoughtfully rearranges his stretchy armed and legged plastic robot into configuration after configuration. Each rearrangement offers a new solution. He is playing and it is highly serious.
Other definitions of play include “to take part in” and “to pass”. There is an inclusivity to play. Is play best done with others or in solitude?
In this Studio Session play will be carefully foregrounded, to make a space for its seriousness to be toyed with.
More details can be found here.
Careful Playgrounds
This session is scheduled for Wednesdays, September 10, 17, 24, and **October 1 from 9-11am PST (that’s Los Angeles time).
Registration is $250 and includes all four sessions.
Participants gather via Zoom.
About the Studio Session
What is play? And what does one need in order to play well? How can play nurture and sustain a creative practice? The Cambridge Dictionary defines play as engaging in an ‘activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose.’ What if we were to take play seriously, and to find new ways to give it practical purpose?
My 3 year old son says “I think I might want to do that” each time he thoughtfully rearranges his stretchy armed and legged plastic robot into configuration after configuration. Each rearrangement offers a new solution. He is playing and it is highly serious.
Other definitions of play include “to take part in” and “to pass”. There is an inclusivity to play. Is play best done with others or in solitude?
In this Studio Session play will be carefully foregrounded, to make a space for its seriousness to be toyed with.
More details can be found here.
Careful Playgrounds
This session is scheduled for Wednesdays, September 10, 17, 24, and **October 1 from 9-11am PST (that’s Los Angeles time).
Registration is $250 and includes all four sessions.
Participants gather via Zoom.
About the Studio Session
What is play? And what does one need in order to play well? How can play nurture and sustain a creative practice? The Cambridge Dictionary defines play as engaging in an ‘activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose.’ What if we were to take play seriously, and to find new ways to give it practical purpose?
My 3 year old son says “I think I might want to do that” each time he thoughtfully rearranges his stretchy armed and legged plastic robot into configuration after configuration. Each rearrangement offers a new solution. He is playing and it is highly serious.
Other definitions of play include “to take part in” and “to pass”. There is an inclusivity to play. Is play best done with others or in solitude?
In this Studio Session play will be carefully foregrounded, to make a space for its seriousness to be toyed with.
More details can be found here.