There are many benefits to be gained from participating in an Artist Trading Card exchange. I have taken part in 5 global swaps with students and each has been a valuable and enriching experience. In 2019, I facilitated and hosted the first ATC Swap Asia, bringing together art students in 7 international schools from Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Vietnam.
Artist Trading Card exchanges have many benefits. These include enabling students to explore, take risks and freely create for a purpose and audience, promoting artistic thinking in an authentic context, embodying the Studio Habits of Mind, easing the pressure of creation due to their reduced size and scale, collaboration with artists both in and outside their community, a focus on quality and developing a body of work... and FUN!