If you end up using any of these tools and/or if you have reflections on them,
I'd love to hear about it!
This template supports interdisciplinary projects where art and research intersect. It provides a flexible yet structured framework with guiding questions and space for documenting agreements, helping artists, researchers, and community workers navigate collaboration effectively.
This template supports collaborative art and research projects by offering guidelines for storing, preserving, and sharing artistic outputs. It helps teams navigate ownership, access, and decision-making, ensuring clarity in interdisciplinary partnerships where data and artistic products hold multiple meanings.
This guidance document explores the growing integration of art in academic research. It outlines how artists can lead, support, or participate in research projects while highlighting potential benefits and tensions they may encounter in these collaborations.
This guidance document helps identify and navigate ethical considerations in art and research projects. It highlights potential tensions, relational dynamics, and key questions to discuss, emphasizing that defining roles and responsibilities is both a logistical and ethical concern.
About these tools
These templates and guidance documents are open-access, adaptable, and in plain-language, created to help ensure that collaborations between artists and researchers are not only effective but also shaped by artistic ways of knowing and doing. They offer practical frameworks for clarifying roles, ethical engagement, and managing interdisciplinary projects.
The tools were developed during my time as the director of an art and research centre—a collaboration between McMaster University’s Community Research Platform and Centre[3], an artist-run centre in Hamilton. My work in this role focused on supporting interdisciplinary partnerships and addressing the complexities that arise when integrating artistic and research practices.
I’m currently in the process of refining and expanding these tools based on feedback from artists, community members, and scholars. In the meantime, I’m sharing them here as valuable resources for those working at the intersection of art and research.