Our observations, shared experiences and the following recommendations that may help to orient subsequent collaborative projects:

• Be sensitive to the culture and mandate specific to each partner;

• Establish appropriate time and means for conception , preparation and evaluation of hands-on

workshops;

• Identify from the outset the collaboratorsʼ personal and collective motivations and expectations;

• Define each collaboratorʼs role;

• With members of the community, define the decision-making process to be used in the artistic

collaboration;

• Become familiar with the challenges that individual members of the community group face;

• Ensure that the individual members of the community group play an active role;

• Agree on groupʼs operating guidelines during creative workshops;

• Communicate to non-artist collaborators that risk-taking is a necessary part of the creative process;

• Adapt the concept and creative process to community membersʼ values, experiences, abilities, and

working rhythms;

• Ensure an equal balance between the artistʼs expertise and the community membersʼ interests and experiences;

• Ensure pedagogical support to artists;

• Guarantee the necessary time to integrate the artist into the community;

• The artist should be ready to make concessions regarding his or her personal aesthetic, as the workʼs

aesthetic will emerge from the general values of the community;

• Consolidate the relationship between the community group and Skol;

• Establish an agreement with regards to ownership of the work, copyrights, moral rights

andacknowledgements, conservation and responsibility, access, and loans of the work.