Inter: Re-Active - An Investigation Of Character:

From masks, to totems, to pixilated avatars, people throughout generations have invoked characters to explore the world that surrounds them. The attributes that are bestowed upon them are tools used by the characters to investigate, analyze and fall in love, in a world ruled by the imagination, but anchored in one common reality.

Using dolls, each one of them with their own cultural specificity, participants will embark on a journey of creating a "crew" of archetypal characters that would unveil the common ground that they live in - in this case, Los Angeles.

The curriculum that follows will present you with the process used by OnRamp Arts and the Inter: Re-Active participants, to develop the history of a character and later translate it into a visual or literary medium of your choice.

The curriculum used to bring these fictional characters to live can be re-created by the teacher as a tool to explore historical figures as well as the formal elements of literature and theater.