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UPCOMING TtD EVENTS 2B Monthly Meeting Oh 2B Drawing Together Again! Unlock your Hidden Drawer - workshop 2
Saturday 24th April 2021 2pm-3.30pm Life, comics, and lost meerkats called Desmond: an autobiographical comic workshop with Michelle! 
Do you like comics, but get bored of superheroes in spandex, and impossible women with flowing hair and heaving breasts?
Have you ever wondered what our lives would look like through the eyes of an oversized toy meerkat? Ever wondered what doggie heaven is like? Would you like to have a go at chronicling your own life in comic form, but not sure where to start? Then this workshop is for you! Come along to hear about the adventures of Desmond, and other comics made by ladies, and have a go at drawing your own. It’s easier than you think! No experience necessary. Tickets £15. E mail brewdrawing@gmail.com if you require / desire a discount or a free ticket. Book here Insta: https://www.instagram.com/fava.michelle/ #desmondthemeerkat 
Drawing Together TtD 2021 Symposium, New Paltz, New York, October 2021 with an online global thread Date tbc Please contact drawingandcognition.com for details 
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Thinking through Drawing Customised courses, problem solving, professional development. Please contact us at brewdrawing@gmail.com for info on future educational courses or to book us to run a 'Thinking through Drawing' course for you. 
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What people say about us:
OCTOBER 2020
I want to thank you all so much for being my inspirations and teachers over the years as I've tried to update my thesis with current research. A large part of the updated material came from participating in TtD events and reading publications by participants. So, you're all part of my new book 'The Value of Drawing' in different ways, both individually and as the co-founders of TtD, and I can honestly say that the book would not have happened without the revitalization of drawing research that you brought into my life. I only wish I could thank you at the 2020 symposium actually rather than virtually!
Warm wishes, and again, many thanks,
Seymour
July 2015 Professional development course
Emily wrote:
For me, drawing has been a kind of special magic superpower. Drawing was my way of sorting out what I did and did not think and what I knew and did not know, it has functioned as my most reliable method for sharing my thoughts as well as showing others that I thought at all. You see, throughout my childhood and adolescence (and even as an adult after if it’s after 9 p.m.) words rarely worked for me. My dyslexic brain, bends, breaks, and bewilders my attempts to record in writing my ideas, insights and understanding. It confounds my efforts to and read the writings of others. When I couldn’t keep the letters of the alphabet from rotating, stepping out of line and jumping place mid-word, I would call upon drawing (my special magic super power) and my hand and brain would instantly become consummate collaborators, I would be able to place my thoughts on the page with remarkably lucid ease. When I needed it to, drawing would replace reading and writing as an effective, efficient, and remarkably elastic method for developing ideas, representing understanding, and structuring systems to solve complex problems.
The superpower magic of drawing evolved into more of an essential competency as I learned to deliberately use it with increasing efficiency and skill. As an artist and educator I became more overtly conscious of how and when and how to employ drawing as a tool. Because drawing is such a reliable and remarkable resource for me, I have often encouraged students (regardless of their chosen media) to draw, as a way to consider situations, choose and describe process, pose and solve problems, and, of course. express themselves effectively. For some, the impact is immediate. For others, practice provides a new methodology for them to access from time to time. The Thinking through Drawing workshops expand my consciousness and understanding of the connections between, cognition, physiology, neurology and drawing; providing a scientific and logical basis for continuing to teach drawing methodologies that, simply (or perhaps complexly) work.
As a participant in the Thinking Through Drawing workshops, we applied the practice of drawing through well-guided exercises through which the instructors (Dr. Angela Brew and Dr. Michelle Fava) brilliantly and fluidly extract, isolate, reinterpret and repurpose elements of familiar drawing practice into thoughtful lesson plans. These exercises reveal the very deliberate ways particular methods of drawing engage/inspire very specific cognitive processes. In addition to such participative learning processes, the instructors introduced students to the principles, theories and research that inform the present understanding of drawing and cognition. The extensive an exciting and extensive reading and resource list prepared by the instructors was made available to those who were interested in learning more (which included every single participant). The immediately preceding parenthetical leads me to the my final important accolade of this testimonial. I must express how impressive and incredible it was to practice, learn and think about drawing with such an exceptional group of peers. My fellow classmates were composers, physicists, architectural historians, educators, art therapists and artists. Each of us came to the course with our own, unique ways and reasons for using drawing. The Thinking through Drawing curriculum asked us to collaborate immediately. We came to realize that our shared insights into the power of drawing allowed us to reveal new dimensions of the process and new depth to the tool. The Superpower expanded, the understanding grew and the magic was shared . . . which is, of course, as it should be.
PREVIOUS COURSES & WORKSHOPS
(see also Symposia & Publications)
March 2021
TREE MEDS - Draw Spring
by Dr A C Brew
Brew will share meditative drawing, breathing and visualisation techniques, exploring the tree as a metaphor for our bodies as well as our intimate relationships with trees.
The workshop is linked to our forthcoming publication Unlock your Hidden Drawer. The book, and workshop, are for everyone: people who have not drawn since they were children, as well as those who desire to draw in new ways, and educators wanting to share the joy of drawing and to help people unlock their drawers.
The 90 minute 2B session will include our monthly catch-up / sharing for all, for us to check in with one another.
Draw for Joy!
Please contact drawingandcognition.com for further details
TREE MEDS - Draw Spring
by Dr A C Brew
Brew will share meditative drawing, breathing and visualisation techniques, exploring the tree as a metaphor for our bodies as well as our intimate relationships with trees.
The workshop is linked to our forthcoming publication Unlock your Hidden Drawer. The book, and workshop, are for everyone: people who have not drawn since they were children, as well as those who desire to draw in new ways, and educators wanting to share the joy of drawing and to help people unlock their drawers.
The 90 minute 2B session will include our monthly catch-up / sharing for all, for us to check in with one another.
Draw for Joy!
Please contact drawingandcognition.com for further details
Unlock your Hidden Drawer
with FAB Fava Acevedo & Brew
February 27th 2pm GMT 2021
What enables / stops drawing?
Drawing workshop, led by FAB – Fava, Acevedo & Brew. The workshop is part of a series, linked to our forthcoming publication Unlock your Hidden Drawer!
In this workshop we shared our best Unlocking exercises.
The book, and workshops, are for everyone: people who have not drawn since they were children, as well as those who desire to draw in new ways (open new drawers), and educators wanting to share the joy of drawing and to help people unlock their drawers.
The 90 minute 2B session included our monthly catch-up / sharing for all, for us to check in and update one another on e.g. our new ways of teaching online, the challenges of Covid and lockdowns. Then FAB endeavoured to give you a very fun drawing workshop, reconnecting with your child self and drawing for joy.
Throughout the workshop series we welcome your contributions, and will credit you for any Unlocking Drawers exercises we publish in the book.
Draw for Joy!
Please contact drawingandcognition.com for further details
In this workshop we shared our best Unlocking exercises.
The book, and workshops, are for everyone: people who have not drawn since they were children, as well as those who desire to draw in new ways (open new drawers), and educators wanting to share the joy of drawing and to help people unlock their drawers.
The 90 minute 2B session included our monthly catch-up / sharing for all, for us to check in and update one another on e.g. our new ways of teaching online, the challenges of Covid and lockdowns. Then FAB endeavoured to give you a very fun drawing workshop, reconnecting with your child self and drawing for joy.
Throughout the workshop series we welcome your contributions, and will credit you for any Unlocking Drawers exercises we publish in the book.
Draw for Joy!
Please contact drawingandcognition.com for further details
January 16th 2pm GMT 2021
COVID vaccination
Making a Decision
FREE problem solving workshop
Dr Fava & Brew with the wonderful Wanda Klenz
Booklet available soon
COVID vaccination
Making a Decision
FREE problem solving workshop
Dr Fava & Brew with the wonderful Wanda Klenz
Booklet available soon
PUU Finland - With our new global drawing network We ALL Draw, we ran a residency about Trees in Finland, June 2019.
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Normandy, France, September 11-15th 2017
Hosted by Brew International School of Drawing
NORMANDY RETREAT, with 2 DAY EXTENSION AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO CAN STAY LONGER - 16 & 17TH SEPTEMBER.
July 9th-11th 2016
Drawing Growth
3 day drawing retreat in Wales
Folk arrived on Friday eve, 8th July, to wind down, settle in, walk by the sea, ready for 3 days of drawing.
We explored how we can use drawing to observe and understand more about how things grow, and the role and power of collaborative drawing for study.
All materials, meals and refreshments provided - the food is absolutely delicious, and abundant!
Held at:
Penmeiddyn Retreat Centre
We explored how we can use drawing to observe and understand more about how things grow, and the role and power of collaborative drawing for study.
All materials, meals and refreshments provided - the food is absolutely delicious, and abundant!
Held at:
Penmeiddyn Retreat Centre
Following our Spring Retreat upstate, we ran a 1 day course in NYC:
Drawing as a Tool for Thought
Monday April 4th 2016
Green Studio School
1-3 April 2016
Thinking through Drawing
US Spring Drawing Retreat
Draw with Bosket, Brew, Fava & Kantrowitz
Long Eddy
NY 12760
Escape with us, to draw in wonderland!
All welcome - arrive on Friday 1st April, wind down, settle in, ready for a full weekend of thoughtful drawing. Come and draw together in this lovely tranquil setting, to share and reflect on our drawing practices, to explore embodied cognition, and to learn from one other.
We propose a special emphasis on collective methods which utilise drawing as a means of communication and genuine collaboration.
$240 including materials, lunches and refreshments
We can advise you on local accommodation - e.g. help to find a group air b n b booking for several of you
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