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Videos from symposia
TtD Director Andrea Kantrowitz's
Thinking through Drawing TEDx talk
Kim Sloane Masterclass - Drawing as act of Generosity - uncut video - draw along
Videos from symposia
PREVIOUS EVENTS & PROCEEDINGS:
TtD 2020 SYMPOSIUM
2B
Drawing Changes
OCTOBER 16-18 2020
online symposium
2B
Drawing Changes
OCTOBER 16-18 2020
online symposium
A full programme of interactive workshops, live discussions, show and tells, get togethers, research talks and collaborative drawing, relating to our theme of Drawing Changes #drawingchanges #2B and the Big Draw 2020 green theme. #climateofchange
Day 1: Climate Change Day 2: Learning & Collaboration Day 3: Healing
The event was recorded, and tickets are still available, to give you access to 3 days of recordings of workshops, presentations and discussions, and to the interactive Miro boards with drawings, links and feedback. NB: We do not want money to be a barrier to you joining the 2B TTD network, so please do contact us and let us know why you are keen to join us - we can be flexible with the price of your ticket.
2B Mark 2
Saturday 5th December 2020
with special guest, artist educator Sarita Chouhan
3 hours of sharing educational, drawing and research practices
Noon -3pm GMT
PLUS Warm up workshop with Gagan Singh 11am
Saturday 5th December 2020
with special guest, artist educator Sarita Chouhan
3 hours of sharing educational, drawing and research practices
Noon -3pm GMT
PLUS Warm up workshop with Gagan Singh 11am
We are excited about the opportunities a virtual symposium offered us – to be greener, to include participants from all around the world who have hitherto been unable to attend in person, to explore drawing at a distance and new possibilities of drawing together online.
2020 brought unprecedented health, environmental and human rights challenges that required individuals to shift the way that we work, live, and interact in our daily lives. Our communities are confronting inequality and injustice, and are demanding social change. 2B: Drawing Changes provided context in which to connect and converse about how our present moment is changing the ways that people make and share drawings, as well as drawing’s usefulness - as a tool for chronicling, confronting, conceiving and contributing to opportunities for change that are presented by our times, our fears, our hopes and our hearts.
For our 2020 online symposium we worked in collaboration with Indiana University Southeast, State University of New York at New Paltz, and The Big Draw.
The symposium ran over 3 days, with 4 hours of live content per day, and local meet ups in all time zones. All live workshops and discussion forums were recorded and are available to ticket holders now, after the event. As a ticket holder you also gain access to a bank of pre-recorded workshops and presentations, educational resources and archive materials from our previous symposia and professional development courses, 2011 – present.
Your ticket gives you access after the event to prerecorded workshops and presentations, to view at your leisure.
Participants wanted to keep the 2B network of educators, researchers and artists going - in response we are hosting monthly workshops, to maintain and develop valuable connections made at 2B LIVE. We hope that fellow drawers and drawing lovers from around the world will join us for these monthly 2Bs, to give and receive support within our community of practice, and to share practices across cultures and geographical space.
drawingandcognition@gmail.com
Exclusive 30% discount on books within the Intellect drawing collection for 2B participants.
2020 brought unprecedented health, environmental and human rights challenges that required individuals to shift the way that we work, live, and interact in our daily lives. Our communities are confronting inequality and injustice, and are demanding social change. 2B: Drawing Changes provided context in which to connect and converse about how our present moment is changing the ways that people make and share drawings, as well as drawing’s usefulness - as a tool for chronicling, confronting, conceiving and contributing to opportunities for change that are presented by our times, our fears, our hopes and our hearts.
For our 2020 online symposium we worked in collaboration with Indiana University Southeast, State University of New York at New Paltz, and The Big Draw.
The symposium ran over 3 days, with 4 hours of live content per day, and local meet ups in all time zones. All live workshops and discussion forums were recorded and are available to ticket holders now, after the event. As a ticket holder you also gain access to a bank of pre-recorded workshops and presentations, educational resources and archive materials from our previous symposia and professional development courses, 2011 – present.
Your ticket gives you access after the event to prerecorded workshops and presentations, to view at your leisure.
Participants wanted to keep the 2B network of educators, researchers and artists going - in response we are hosting monthly workshops, to maintain and develop valuable connections made at 2B LIVE. We hope that fellow drawers and drawing lovers from around the world will join us for these monthly 2Bs, to give and receive support within our community of practice, and to share practices across cultures and geographical space.
drawingandcognition@gmail.com
Exclusive 30% discount on books within the Intellect drawing collection for 2B participants.
2B PROGRAMME
We received a wonderful range of proposals from around the world. Please check out the short introductory videos of workshops below.
The Schedule
Information on workshops and presentations
All the recordings of the full workshops can be viewed by ticket holders.
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A USEFUL & CRUCIAL WORKSHOP FOR EDUCATORS AND ANYONE REFIGURING THEIR WORK IN ORDER TO TEACH ONLINE
Teaching Drawing Online LIVE WORKSHOP, Saturday 17th October - LEARNING & COLLABORATION Workshop by The UWE Drawing Research Group in collaboration with the Visual Communication Department at Birmingham City University, UK. The group’s interests include the role of drawing in teaching, learning and research, and the practice of teaching drawing. The group have an interdisciplinary outlook and are making connections with those working outside the fields of art and design. |
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Drawing our Inner World. Seeing our Outer World Workshop with Dr Curie Scott 45minutes This is an exploratory drawing workshop. I’m interested in how drawing helps us make sense of the world. Wear comfortable clothes and bring paper and pens (if you have space, set up large paper on a wall or an easel and bring different drawing tools). Drawing is evocative and provocative. A drawing can tells us something, show us something and sometimes seems to know something before we do! This work stems from my PhD using participatory drawing to think about our future aged selves. I used intuitive and expressive drawing, and the term ‘generative drawing’. This is when we come to the page to draw but without a fixed idea of exactly what we are going to draw. This introduction video has some drawings to whet your appetite. I hope you’ll join in! We can pick up any drawings and thoughts on the workshop in the Healing panel on Sunday 18th October. |
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Anthi Kosma and Eva Miguel - Draw[riot]ing
Improvised, collaborative drawing. |
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A slow introduction to modern geometry
Workshop by Renaud Chabrier, helped by a french snail Text of his video introduction: Hi, I’m Renaud Chabrier, October is quite a rainy time in France, so a snail will help me with my workshop presentation, to provide a slow introduction to modern geometry. To begin with, we will practice drawing just a snail shell, in order to get used to the shape. Then we will draw the snail as it moves, and we will pay attention to the way the different drawings interact with each other. During this process, I will talk about the different transformations that the snail can show you, and about the geometry that you can use for your general composition. For this workshop, you will need one empty shell, and one living snail or more, plus a branch to make it move. If you can’t find this, I will display a pre-recorded movie of a moving snail in any case. You can use either charcoal, red chalk or black stone. You will also need a comfortable board and A3 sheet of white paper, or something larger. Feel free to use a variety of pencils on coloured paper, or brushes and ink wash if you prefer, but be careful with complicated techniques because the snail may be faster than you think… See you soon! |
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Botanical Drawing through the Sensorium
Workshop by Sara Schneckloth An embodied action, Botanical Drawing through the Sensorium expands both perception and reaction, enhancing our material, bodily, traces on the page. In this workshop, we combine close pansensory observation of our local neighborhood flora with the act of mindful drawing, working in a range of mediums and easily-accessible techniques. We will do a number of short studies to deepen perception of line, form, structure, and texture, synthesizing techniques to produce one larger piece. This workshop can be viewed from Monday 12th October by ticket holders - use your VIMEO code to access. Schneckloth will be LIVE on the LEARNING & COLLABORATION panel, OCTOBER 17th |
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Multi-Sensory Tactile Drawing, at the MET NYC
Workshop with Pamela Lawton Activate your senses and break your drawing habits. From the Sub-Saharan shores to our Zoom rooms, we will draw to sounds, images, and surfaces brought alive by museum objects taken in part from “Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara”, a current exhibition at the Met Museum. Savor surfaces and traverse spaces, guided by your senses, chance marks and subconscious responses. |
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Performative Drawing for Change with Beatriz Albuquerque Are you up to the challenge? Allow yourSelf to rejoice while creating this performative"Exquisite Corpse" drawing to bring change to the world. Let your voice be expressed with movement and drawing. Workshop leader: Beatriz Albuquerque Affiliation: CITAR (Research Centre in Science and Technology of the Arts), Catholic University of Portugal. |
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Phenomenology of (bodily) architectural drawings by Mohammad Moezzi Mohammad Moezzi is researching architectural representation and philosophy. He is an architect, designer and draftsman. who holds Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from AZAD University of Mashhad in Iran. He teaches architectural drawing, architectural representation, design studio, design process, environmental understanding and expression, and drawing theory. |
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Cones, Grids and Timelines with Matt Finch What does it mean to picture the future in uncertain times? How can drawing help us make better choices? This workshop will give attendees the opportunity to explore drawing-led methods of foresight work on- or off-line, helping people to identify key uncertainties and generate future scenarios to inform better decision-making. Based on the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach, this workshop offers the opportunity to radically (re)imagine the futures we might face, at any scale from the personal to the global, grounded in a rigorous and disciplined foresight methodology. |
Emma Fält - Celebrate Distance. Exploring sound and drawing, distance and delay.
Drawing Breath with Hameed, Brew & Freedman. An exploration of connections between breath and movements of our bodies, including drawing. How can breathing and drawing interact? How can drawing focus our attention, and how can drawing trace and mirror our breath? Ambreen Hameed is a yoga teacher, specialising in restorative yoga and yoga for people with autism. We used her prerecorded breath exercises to explore how drawing can follow our breath and movements of our bodies.
The Winners with Michelle Fava and Beatriz Acevedo.
'The Winners' was be a warm-up exercise to heighten your senses through the magical power of words.
The Big Green Draw Festival 2020
A welcome from The Big Draw Director, Kate Mason on The Big Green Draw Festival Theme: A Climate of Change. Kate will outline their 2020 #climateofchange campaign and their community educational work. The Big Green Draw Festival 2020 #ClimateOfChange focuses on the relationship between people and our living environments and ecosystems; highlighting how we live today and the ways in which we do and do not harmonise with nature. 'Drawing – in all its forms, helps us make sense of a rapidly changing world around us. It is a global language which cuts across all barriers of culture, race and identity. In this special anniversary year, it is apt that we, alongside many other voices, also lend our own voice to help increase awareness and understanding of the emergency situation unfolding across all ecosystems. This universal language of drawing is the perfect narrator helping to document, report and share thinking around the seismic shifts taking place in our society. Everywhere are visual manifestations of positive activism from people wanting to help make change.' Kate Mason, 2020.
#BigGreenDraw #ClimateofChange #BigDrawTurns20
Tree Meds
LIVE WORKSHOP
Visualising ourselves as trees, exploring our connections, how we are rooted in and respond to the environment, and how we can learn from trees.
Tips and Tricks - teaching drawing online. TtD Director Dr Andrea Kantrowitz hosted a 'sharing teaching practices' session for all to share their tips for teaching online.
LIVE WORKSHOP - LEARNING & COLLABORATION
‘Thinking Work’: What Can Ancient Drawings Tell Us About the People Who Made Them?
Talk by Sanchita Balachandran, Associate Director and conservator, The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum
The Amber Tree - we continued to 'grow' the never ending drawing of a mother tree and her surrounding forest of tree drawings, with drawing spirits in the branches and root systems.
MinDraw
One minute drawings project, by Wanda Klenz Productions. During lockdown in UK Wanda Klenz and colleagues launched a one minute a day drawings project, with the goal of helping health workers and people with Covid to reflect on daily events in health care settings, in isolation, in lockdown etc. It then expanded, and now is a One Minute Drawing project for everyone - given that we are ALL affected by Covid. Please join the Facebook group to share your one minute drawings.
Facebook page
Facebook group
blog
Important legal note: The 2B symposium presenters have granted Thinking Through Drawing a limited license to present the recorded content of their presentations only to registered conference participants and only during the 2020 Thinking Through Drawing 2B: Drawing Changes Virtual Symposium. No further reproduction, transmission, sharing or publication of the content by Thinking Through Drawing or conference participants without the expressed written consent of the presenter of that content. The content of each presentation is and remains the property of the presenters and all rights, including but not limited to those rights contained in copyright are retained by the presenters.
We are delighted to recommend some drawing books to be published in 2021.
The authors, Rosemary Montgomery-Whicher and Seymour Simmons lll, will both be available for discussion during the symposium.
The authors, Rosemary Montgomery-Whicher and Seymour Simmons lll, will both be available for discussion during the symposium.
Cover Image: Drawing by George Clausen, RA “Half-length study of a woman drawing” Photo: copyright: Royal Academy of Arts, London
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“The lived experience of drawing: Reflections on an enduring practice” by Rose Montgomery-Whicher (as part of the series, “Phenomenology and Practice” Routledge, 2021) |
by Seymour Simmons III
The Value of Drawing Instruction in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula: Philosophical and Historical Arguments for Drawing in the Digital Age
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. Proposed publication: March 31, 2021.
By applying philosophical and historical perspectives to drawing instruction, this volume demonstrates how diverse teaching methods contribute to cognitive and holistic development applicable within and beyond the visual arts.
Offering a new perspective on the art and science of drawing, this text reveals the often-unrecognized benefits that drawing can have on the human mind, and thus argues for the importance of drawing instruction despite, and even due to contemporary digitalization. Given the predominance of visual information and digital media, visual thinking in and through drawing may be an essential skill for the future. As such, the book counters recent declines in drawing instruction to propose five Paradigms for teaching drawing – as design, as seeing, as experience and experiment, as expression, and as a visual language – with exemplary curricula for pre-K12 art and general education, pre-professional programs across the visual arts, and continuing education. With the aid of instructional examples, this volume dispels the misconception of drawing as a talent reserved for the artistically gifted and posits it as a teachable skill that can be learned by all.
This text will be of primary interest to doctoral students, researchers, and scholars with interests in drawing theory and practice, cognition in the arts, positive psychology, creativity theory, as well as the philosophy and history of arts education. Aligning with contemporary trends such as Design Thinking, STEAM, and Graphicacy, the text will also have appeal to visual arts educators, and those involved in arts integration.
Seymour Simmons III is a Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Winthrop University, USA.
See below for materials and proceedings from our previous events 2011 to the present.
2020 BIOGRAPHIES
The TtD Board Directors:
Drs Brew, Fava & Kantrowitz, collectively known as 123 Draw, are the founders of Thinking through Drawing. In 2018 123 Draw became 12345 Draw when artists and teachers Emily Sheehan and Emma Fält joined the group.
They run the TtD Symposium series, professional development courses and drawing residencies around the world.
Angie Brew is an artist, researcher and drawing teacher. She holds a Drawing MA with distinction from Camberwell College of Art, UAL, London. For her doctorate she worked in the Drawing & Cognition Project, Camberwell, researching enactive observational drawing methods and pedagogy. This resulted in a new cognitively-informed approach called 'Drawing Growth', synchronising eye and hand. Her art practice explores drawing for well-being and healing, and close observational drawing of growth processes. She is artist in residence in a community greenhouse in Brixton, London, where she leads a collaborative Drawing Growth project and a weekly drawing club. She runs an interdisciplinary research project called Drawlearn, exploring how drawing enables and enhances learning 'across the board'. During Covid lockdown she ran online sessions called Tree Meds - calming drawing meditations, and, with artists Angela Hodgson-Teall and Jen Wright, launched MinDraw, a one minute a day drawing project.
Angie at
brewdraw.com
drawlearn.com
Academia.edu
Michelle Fava is Head of Knowledge Transfer and Digital Learning Programme Manager at the Centre for Social Innovation, Cambridge University. She is co-founder of the Thinking Through Drawing project. She holds a PhD in drawing from Loughborough University and completed her post-doctoral research at Cambridge School of Art (in the UK), looking into the way in which drawing education practices are changing in art schools. Her work brings together cognitive principles and design thinking approaches to education and facilitation. She has written and edited academic publications on drawing, visual literacy and arts integration. Michelle has worked with UK schools and colleges to innovate curricula and teaching methods, and foster communities for pedagogic research and innovation.Michelle’s present research is looking into the factors influencing the longevity of Community Economic Development Organisations in the UK.
Michelle likes to draw seeds. She is looking forward to receiving her French passport next week so that she can remain European. She has a geriatric spaniel.
Michelle at Academia.edu
Andrea Kantrowitz EdD., is an artist, researcher, educator who has lectured and given workshops internationally on art and cognition. She holds a B.A in Art and Cognition from Harvard University and a MFA in Painting from Yale, and teaches at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She has taught drawing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and graduate courses in contemporary art at the College of New Rochelle. She has also been a teaching artist in the New York City for many years, involved in multiple local and national research projects. In 2014 she completed an interdisciplinary doctorate at Teachers College which examined the cognitive interactions underlying contemporary artists’ drawing practices. Her blog is Zyphoid.com and her own art work is represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art.
Andrea at Academia.edu
Emily Sheehan is a visual artist and drawing teacher. She received her MFA in Visual Studies, with a specialization in Drawing and Sculpture, from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in 2008. Since 2014, Emily has held the position of Assistant Professor of Fine Art and Drawing Area Head at Indiana University Southeast. As an educator, Emily is interested in creating creative curriculum that combines traditional academic drawing techniques with immediate, experimental, and unexpected drawing materials and methods. She develops and teaches curriculum to help fine arts students explore drawing as a tool for invention, conceptualization, and self-directed ideation, description, discussion, and problem solving. Emily’s artistic practice/research utilizes perceptual drawing (drawing from observation in a multi-sensory way) to explore the way that marks left on a page become evidence of lived experience.
Website: www.emilysheehanstudiosite.com
Emma Vilina Fält (BA(Design),MA (Fine Art), FIN, s.1983) is a multidisciplinary artist working in the field of drawing and performing arts. Her work takes a comprehensive look at drawing as a means to make contact, open dialogues and collaboratively explore our experience of the world. Her participatory pieces combine live drawing, sounds, multimedia and written scores to create live acts with groups. Fälts current work and ongoing artistic research explores drawing as listening. Fält has shown her work in Finland and abroad in galleries, festivals, symposiums, museums and worked in community projects with youth in Finland. Emma Teaches drawing in Art School Maa, at the Hospital school in Kuopio, Finland and works as a visiting teacher around the world.
http://emmafalt.net
https://vimeo.com/vilina
Creating space for listening
2B Presenters 2020:
Drawing Research Group & Visual Communication Department, Birmingham City University, UK.
The UWE Drawing Research Group was founded at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and for this workshop is collaborating with the Visual Communication Department at Birmingham City University, UK.
The group’s interests include the role of drawing in teaching, learning and research, and the practice of teaching drawing. The group have an interdisciplinary outlook and are making connections with those working outside the fields of art and design.
The members are Gary Embury, Senior Lecturer in Illustration, UWE; Anouk Mercier, Lead Technical Instructor in Visual Studies, UWE; Chloe Regan, Lecturer in Visual Communication, Birmingham City University and BIFCA, China; Lucy Ward, Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Print, UWE.
www.uwedrawingresearch.com
Instagram: uwe_drawing_research
Chloe Regan MA (RCA) FHEA is Visual Communication Flying Faculty and Lecturer, Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creative Arts, China, School of Visual Communication. She is a Member of the Material Encounters Research Cluster
www.bcu.ac.uk/art/research/material-encounters
www.chloeregan.com
Beatriz Albuquerque lives and works between Porto and New York. She received her Doctoral from Columbia University and her Master from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was selected by Flash Art magazine as one of the 100 most relevant international artists under the age of 45. Awards include the Breakthrough Award for the 17th Cerveira Biennial; Myers Art Prize Award, Columbia University; and the Ambient Performance Series Award, PAC/edge Performance Festival. Beatriz Albuquerque exhibits internationally, with solo and group exhibitions at the Chelsea Art Museum, International Istanbul Biennial, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, among others. www.beatrizalbuquerque.com
Sanchita Balachandran is the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. She teaches courses related to the identification and analysis of ancient manufacturing techniques of objects, as well as the history, ethics and practice of museum conservation. A recent course (Spring 2015) involved recreating ancient Greek pottery based on examples in the museum’s collection. She completed her graduate work in art history and art conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
http://archaeologicalmuseum.jhu.edu
Renaud Chabrier is a draftsman, filmmaker and artist-researcher. He works with sketches and movement, and believes that any single stroke in drawing can act as a vector of transformation. Much of his work involves creating animation movies and installations for science museums, using tools like morphing or real-time animation. Since 2017, he has been leading a research project involving biology, computer graphics and philosophy, with the aim of understanding which geometries we use when we draw the spatiality of life.
Affiliation: Institut Curie, PSL University / LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris
Matt Finch of mechanicaldolphin.com is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland and a facilitator on the Scenario Planning course at Oxford University. He helps communities, institutions, and individuals to look at the future, find good ideas, and make them happen.
Natasha Freedman is Director of studio2909 and Chair of the Board of Improbable Theatre, having been Director of Learning for English National Opera and Complicite, and Deputy Director of Cape Farewell. She is a regular visiting tutor at the National Film and Television School, leading visual literacy workshops for cinematography and directing students to raise awareness of the body in the frame and behind the camera. She has led numerous workshops for the Royal College of Art, Central St Martin’s, London College of Fashion and the National Gallery.
Ambreen Hameed has practiced yoga and meditation for over thirty years and has studied with teachers from many traditions including the Satyananda, Iyengar and Viniyoga schools. Her teaching work is focussed on restorative practices to calm, relax and integrate mind with body, particularly breathing and sound techniques. She specialises in yoga for children with autism spectrum neurodiversity, and has also worked extensively with those in recovery from addiction, eating disorders and CFS. She holds a degree in physics from the University of Oxford and is accredited by the British Wheel of Yoga.
Angela Hodgson-Teall is an artist who practices in the arenas of socially engaged drawing and performance, health and well-being and visual poetry. In her arts PhD Drawing on the Nature of Empathy (UAL, 2014) she collaborated with hospital staff, using drawing to help them reflect, analyse, play and slow down during a time of crisis. She launched MinDrawNHS in April 2020 to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 along with other members of Thinking Through Drawing. She has worked with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and with artist Sonia Boyce at Flat-Time House, Peckham. She is about to launch her social enterprise Wanda Klenz Productions II in Cornwall and London (2020). She is on the Council of the Association for Medical Humanities and for 26 years she was also a Consultant Medical Microbiologist in South East London. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including the USA and Australia.
Anthi Kosma and Eva Miguel are the founders of imprografika, a collective of improvised, collaborative drawing, running online and offline sessions worldwide.
Anthi is currently giving classes at the University of Thessaly in Greece. She studied architecture in Democritos University and holds a PhD (Cum laude and special honor) from the School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM).
Eva is an architect from the School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM) and co-founder of Me, a brand and design laboratory on the move with bases in London and Menorca.
https://imprografika.wordpress.com/
https://www.anthikosma.com/
http://www.mebrandlab.com
Pamela Lawton
Pamela Lawton’s 2019-20 “Multisensory Drawing In Siena” project awarded her a U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant at the Siena Art Institute in Italy. Catapulting her artwork into tactile realms, she merged her own artmaking with community-engaged teaching at the Uffizi Galleries, the Benaki Museum (Athens) and elsewhere.
Her solo shows include the Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica, the Galeria Isabel Ignacio, Spain, and The Conde Nast Building, 180 Maiden Lane, and The Atrium Gallery, New York. Group exhibits include the Metropolitan Museum Mezzanine print shop, Pierogi, Sideshow, and Tibor De Nagy galleries. Lawton was an artist-in-residence at the World Trade Center through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Poetry collaborations include Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh. She has a BA from Bennington College, an MFA from City College, NY and Scuola Lorenzo De Medici in Italy, and received a merit scholarship from Yale Summer School of Music and Art. While at New School University, she created a Sri Lanka-based class. She teaches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Manhattanville College.
http://pamelalawton.com
Mohammad Moezzi is a PhD student of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape in the University of Calgary in Canada, where he is doing research on architectural representation and philosophy. He is an architect, designer and draftsman who holds Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees, both from AZAD University of Mashhad in Iran. As an architect, he has been working in more than forty projects. He also has been a Lecturer in Iran and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Canada since 2012. He taught courses on architectural drawing, architectural representation, design studio, design process, environmental understanding and expression, and drawing theory.
https://www.instagram.com/m.h.moezzi/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-h-moezzi/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/mohammad_moezzi
Howard Riley is Professor Emeritus, Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He studied at the Hammersmith College of Art, Coventry College of Art, the Royal College of Art and holds a doctorate in the practice and pedagogy of drawing. He has published in the areas of drawing pedagogy and visual semiotics. Riley's drawings have been exhibited in Australia, Finland, Serbia, the USA and the UK.
Professor Howard Riley PhD MA(RCA) CertDes FRSA FHEA
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Howard_Riley
https://howardriley.wordpress.com
Sara Schneckloth
Schneckloth’s studio practice is motivated by the question of how science, imagination, and the body inform one another through the activity of drawing. She has shown drawings in over eighty exhibitions throughout the US, UK, South Africa, Norway, and France. Her essays on drawing and embodiment have appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, Visual Communications Quarterly, TRACEY, and the Manifest INDA. She holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina, co-curates the Svalbard Seed Cultures Archive, and directs Drawing Canyon, Sage, and Sky in rural New Mexico.
www.saraschneckloth.com
www.seedcultures.com
www.canyonsagesky.com
Offerings film: https://vimeo.com/387107770
Dr Curie Scott drew as a child and then got lured away. She is a qualified medical doctor who moved into University lecturing. Curie was intrigued that drawing helped health professional students learn. She invested time during her drawing PhD getting reacquainted with drawing. Drawing now threads through her current work as an academic coach, artist-researcher, writer and facilitator. Her reflective thinking through drawing workshops use expressive drawing to reconnect people to their bodies and surrounding environment. She is nearing the end of a commissioned book on ‘Drawing for Health and Wellbeing’.
Mr. Neil Shah
I am a surgeon with a long-standing interest in the relationships between surgery and art. To that end I have had a close collaboration with artists over the years with a view to further developing our close links on many levels.MBBS(Lond), BDS(Lond), MSc(Lond), FDSRCS(Eng), FRCS(General Surgery)(Eng), FRCS(OMFS)(Eng).
Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial / Head & Neck Surgeon, BHRUT
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Head & Neck Surgery, University College London.
Clinical Lead, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, BHRUT.
Clinical Lead, Department of Orthodontics, BHRUT.
Lead for Early Diagnosis, Head & Neck Cancer Pathway Board, London Cancer.
Lead for Surgery, Skin Cancer Pathway Board, London Cancer.
Gagan Singh is a Delhi based artist who also conducts Drawing based workshops. His interest has been how to think through Drawing through Sketchbooks, working on site and Video where he uses Humor as an entry point. He graduated from Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury, Kent in 2005 with an MA in Fine Arts.
He is represented by Chatterjee & Lal Gallery based in Mumbai.
http://chatterjeeandlal.com/artists/gagan-singh/
https://www.instagram.com/gagansingh05/
https://indiaartfair.in/gagan-singh-i-sometimes-envision-when-i-am-drawing-that-i-am-doing-stand-up-comedy
Jen Wright: I completed my doctoral research at UAL exploring the role of drawing and drawing like activities within the field of medicine and medical education. The work examined links between drawing and the haptic nature of surgery and was supported by the HapTEL department at King’s College Dental Institute. My recent work continues with the collaboration with King’s College London and Brescia University looking at issues of mental health and Alzheimer’s Disease. The latest research explores the use of forms of drawing, particularly map making with Alzheimer’s patients. My art practice continues, with a particular focus on drawing and print making, recording the impact of microbial infection on the structure of the brain and subsequent impact on personality changes on a patient.
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Drawing Rocks!
What is Drawing Good For?
TtD 2018 Symposium
June 5-6th 2018
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'Drawing Rocks' brought together leading researchers, educators and drawing practitioners to continue our exploration of what drawing is, what it does, and how it does it. To this end, we shared drawing practices and research findings, and discussed the many roles of drawing. The 2 day event consisted of practical workshops, presentations of recent cognitive research relating to drawing practices and learning, and discussions.
The Secret Drawing Room, BFI, Southbank, London