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(Above) Jake Chapman © 2000 Courtesy of MoMa

The Exquisite Corpse is something introduced to pretty much every freshman art class I’ve ever been involved with– and if you took any of my classes at WAM there’s a pretty good chance you got exposed to it well before that.

You take a piece of paper and you fold it into thirds– you draw your portion with the edge lines creeping past your border into the blank area directly below– that way when you hand the piece to the next artist in the group they can see where you left your lines while NOT looking at what you drew– that’s the deal– you draw your section blindly and then repeat and hand it off to the third artist who finishes it, again without looking at what either of the first two artists did.

It’s a good ice breaker and it’s been around (according to MoMa) since about 1920, although I’d suspect it’s longer than that.

I’ve been to a few cocktail parties where this was done to get everyone talking and laughing at the results, and it certainly is good for kids parties too.