Creative Collective makes space for student artistry

Abigail Gibb

Contributor

Garrett’s Restaurant in the Student Center has a few people running around and working to set up microphones and TVs that will be needed for Creative Collective, a performance highlighting student artists.

A couple of people carry in guitars and a bass guitar and start tuning. While being hooked up to the sound system, the bass guitarist starts jamming out.

Michael Naylor, the host of the Oct. 31 Creative Collective and WCC music professor, said, “We have the poetry classes, the audio classes, and the video classes, but the reality is your world is entirely interdisciplinary.”

“Academia hasn’t progressed to that point, so we had to begin the process of building a collective … Now we’re finding places and spaces where you guys [students] can develop partnerships and develop projects that are collaborative,” he said.

“We really want to create a community of people who are like-minded, but also diverse, like creative individuals who come from any kind of background,” said Julia Esquivel, the marketing manager for the Creative Collective.

There is a lot of potential for collaboration at WCC for artists. If you’re interested in another Creative Collective event, look for the next one on Dec. 12.

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