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🎨 Look at Art Like a Pirate

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Your Host

Rachel Ropeik

Educator | Adventurer | Facilitator | Experience Builder | Pirate 🏴‍☠️ .

Concord, MA, USA

I’m an educator, adventurer, facilitator, experience builder, and pirate 🏴‍☠️ who uses strategic, playful, progressive approaches to catalyze change in arts and culture.

About this FieldTrip

Are you someone who speeds through an art gallery? Do you like art but sometimes feel intimidated by going to see it in a museum? Maybe art museums aren’t your thing at all or you feel like no one’s ever taught you how to look at art.

You know who wouldn’t let any of that stop them from finding a way to enjoy artworks?

Pirates, that’s who!

I’ll bring my interdisciplinary, piratical “down with these broken limiting beliefs!” approach to this hour where we’ll do some close looking and unexpected exercises to each find our own ways of engaging with art.

✨WHAT TO EXPECT

✔️ This FieldTrip will be participatory without requiring cameras/mics on or breakout rooms. I’ll introduce myself and what I mean by “look at art like a pirate”, including how pirates can be a more useful inspiration source than the stereotypes about them might suggest.

✔️ We’ll spend our session focused on a single artwork together. I’ll guide you through some surprising and unexpected exercises and prompts that will respond to our work of art in different ways. Our goal (apart from having fun) is to put aside our existing mental rules about how we “should” look at art and embrace our unique points of view instead.

✔️ We’ll end the session with a chance to get creative with the materials that are around you in whatever space you join from. You’ll be invited to make a small offering in response to our time together, and hopefully by the end, you’ll come away feeling ready to make your next art viewing experience more your own.

🎒What To Know Before Hand

All you need to bring is a mind open to surprise and discovery. No art (or piracy) knowledge necessary.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Rachel Ropeik is an educator, adventurer, facilitator, experience builder, and pirate who uses strategic, playful, and progressive approaches to catalyze change in arts and culture. Rachel creates spaces where people can feel comfortable and inspired. She centers equity and experimentation and is known as an empathetic listener, an adaptive leader, and a people-oriented direct communicator.

Before going independent, Rachel spent nearly two decades working at the Guggenheim, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, and the Met in NYC, as well as the Courtauld Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Westminster School, and Charleston in and around London.

On top of that, she can tell you some good stories about holding a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting or figuring out how much Marilyn Monroe’s wardrobe was worth.

EVENT TYPE

🎨 Artistic Exploration

🎥 ✅ This FieldTrip Will Be Recorded


What to expect

Lecture format!

This is a more traditional format where participants absorb information through presentations and talks.

Real-time only!

This FieldTrip will not be recorded.

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Your Host

Rachel Ropeik

Educator | Adventurer | Facilitator | Experience Builder | Pirate 🏴‍☠️ .

Concord, MA, USA

About Rachel Ropeik

I’m an educator, adventurer, facilitator, experience builder, and pirate 🏴‍☠️ who uses strategic, playful, progressive approaches to catalyze change in arts and culture.


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The FieldTrips experience is defined not only by what the host has to share, but also by how we show up individually and collectively. The way we show up impacts our capacity to be moved, inspired, and activated.

Show up fully

Get ready to be immersed! Engage with smiles, nods, waves, emojis. Share in the chat. Get cozy. Turn off notifications. Sip your favorite beverage.

Stay curious

Wear your beginner’s hat. Go with the flow. Welcome the stumbles and fumbles. Congratulate yourself for trying. Keep going! 

Celebrate your host

Our hosts are members of the CreativeMornings community—just like you! Everyone comes to this with different backgrounds—a lot of our hosts have never done anything like this before! And we love that! Cheer them on when something goes awry and when it goes perfectly.

Support each other

We’re all figuring things out in real time. Celebrate, rather than critique emerging ideas. Cheer each other on as you try new things.  Try “Yes! And…” in conversation.

Not vibing?

It’s 100% okay when a FieldTrip does not resonate with you. Pop out quietly and try another experience later. Fill out the survey with your feedback (no dms to host or chat commentary, please.)