2021 TtD Symposium
Unlocking - Rethinking through Drawing
SATURDAY 23 October 2021
with a week of live and recorded workshops 18-22 October
A week has passed since the unlocking symposium. I have been dreaming more. My heart has softened and my perceptions are transforming. I perceive the world around me a bit differently when I walk on the street; different lines, different feelings, different plants whispering, trying to give messages, more clues, more vivid.....
Yes, the Unlocking Week seems like it is still unlocking hidden locks ....
Reiko, Unlocking participant
Yes, the Unlocking Week seems like it is still unlocking hidden locks ....
Reiko, Unlocking participant
If you missed Unlocking, you can still access the recordings of workshops, artists' talks, presentations and discussions.
For the Key to Unlocking please donate £30 and you will receive the set of keys to unlock 38 videos of sessions and the Unlocking interactive Miro board. Please e-mail [email protected] for the keys.
For the Key to Unlocking please donate £30 and you will receive the set of keys to unlock 38 videos of sessions and the Unlocking interactive Miro board. Please e-mail [email protected] for the keys.
Please read this wonderful review of Unlocking!
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My Story of the Unlocking Week Reiko Shimizu A few days before the symposium I was bitten and almost killed by a small wolf in the woods. It happened in a tiny village many miles away from where I live. It was dark at night. It was literally a traumatic experience. A nightmare. I was not sure whether it was okay to be present in the symposium or not. My whole body was still trembling. The first day of the unlocking symposium I participated rather impulsively. There I saw a female figure locked in my heart then. She looked like a goddess at first but as I observed closely, she looked more like a little simple girl, with colourful flowers on her hair, smiling quietly. A morning after a warm yellowish light filled up the unknown space. The light was from my past dream, illuminating the present. In the yellowish light, I was embraced by everyone who was present. After enjoying being still in the yellowish light, I started exploring the air around my body. Sometimes pushing it and other times pulled by the volume of it. Then I realized that I was tracing my movement with invisible lines in the air. Yes, it was like a dance. It was very spontaneous. I felt like being released like a small fish trapped in a net just getting released into the vast ocean. After being released in the air, I have found a game I could play. The game asked me to go through a series of challenges. The first challenge was to drink my trauma and the next challenge was to experience it psychologically and then physically, synchronizing with my own breathing to get it out. I don't even want to describe my experience from the first two challenges but once I vomited it all onto the drawing paper then to water afterwards, it was a very peaceful thing to see. A surprise! My vomit dissolved into the water and as a result, a mysterious, attractive black seed emerged. Within a few hours the seed had cracked and a flower bloomed. I holded it in my palms. I was not sure whether to burn this black flower away or not but in the end I decided to keep it for a while. Holding uncertainty in my heart I embraced myself warmly. I have accepted the decision. Next morning, I woke up embraced by huge hands. They were cosmic hands. Then I started to hear cosmic sounds swimming through the air smoothly and gently. My voice spontaneously started to swim through together with the cosmic sounds, trying to harmonize, trying to tune in, listening and searching. I suddenly realized that I was singing along with others. It was not yet a melody, like a melody in a womb. Such a joyful way to sing! That night I tried to find things to be grateful for that day. It was a suggestion from a dream fairy but the only thing I felt was my heart hardening. So, I did my prayer as usual and went to sleep with my saints in my heart. It was dark when I woke up the next day. I was touching objects in the dark. It felt insecure and too adventurous to go on drawing in such a way. In order to draw in total darkness, I needed to learn to trust the sensation that I was seeing through my hands. Then I remembered about the students from Blind Boys School I was working with just before the pandemic. How they trust the world and how they trust themselves, I remembered. Yes, here the key I have got that might be useful for unlocking was “to trust”. With the key “to trust” in my pocket , I was led to a question, “So, what does the word 'purpose' mean to me....? For some reasons, I didn’t like the word ‘purpose’. I had no idea what it meant to me. But feeling the key “to trust” in my pocket, I was drawing a pot filled up by bright light and it was coming out, illuminating its surroundings. Was it what ‘purpose’ meant for me? It was beautiful. Divine looking. With this light I went see through over the pandemic year. A path was leading towards the inner spiral. Inner and inner, sometimes crossing the previous path but always inner till I reach the very center. Different colours appear every here and there. A violent fire flame appeared as well as a scary face. I contemplated looking over the whole path and in the end I decided to embrace the whole thing with acceptance. Yes, the cosmic hands emerged here again! It seemed like that was the only solution to keep on going. It felt good, strong and warm. Then it was play time! Masking tapes play time! Making lines here and there, dot over another dot, over and over again, tearing and placing.... How fun it was to see the transparency of the tapes overlapping and 3D-ness of it coming out here and there. I felt totally loosened up. It was interesting how different other people play with the same material. And how I wished to play together in the same physical space with other people on the other side of the zoom. |
Following my own breathing, tracing the feeling of the water with my right hand, then tracing the feeling of air with my left hand, and tracing the mood of the earth with my feet, It was a very refreshing experience. I felt much more secure than tracing the touching sensations with lines blindly a day before. I was blind this morning as well but I enjoyed it much more. I wonder if it was breathing that went along while drawing made the experience so comfortable. Looking at all these unexpected, rather spontaneous lines and marks delighted my heart.
Feeling my heart delighted, I was slowly led from very recent memory to my very early childhood memory. As I traced back my memories with drawings I was amazed to see how much details were kept in my memory. The more I draw the more details come to the present consciousness. The act of drawing was bringing back memories that have been kept over years. Along with the physical details, I started to remember the feelings as well. I was totally in my childhood when I started to listen to a verbal description of the landscape. It was such a pleasing experience. It was like listening to a good night story in a cosy bed, half way asleep. Perhaps rather a daydream? A halfway there and here, a kind of threshold, a dreamy mood I was led to. Yes, the little girl was unlocked in my heart then. Flowers on her hair, smiling quietly, dreaming peacefully. With a little girl, I found my forgotten aloe plant in the hidden corner of the veranda. Yes, my aloe is one of the few nature there is in this apartment. I brought this aloe about 10 years ago and the only thing I have ever done for her was to replant when she started to grow out of the original pot. Poor aloe...I only was going to her when I needed her jelly, otherwise I never even looked at her. And what a fascinating experience I had when I started to draw her. She was not all spiky and scratchy as I thought. The more I looked and the more I drew, I started to perceive her whispering. All the leaves were whispering to each other sweetly and quietly. At the same time they were dancing harmoniously and gracefully. They were communicating to each other through movement in a very delicate mannar and some of them were even reaching towards me. She was so alive, full of life energy. She was whispering to me all these years quietly but I never cared to listen. How patient and beautiful plants are. How generous! I was very touched by my aloe plant. I felt a little awakened to the plant world. I started to remember how vividly I used to see the world when I was a child. Yes, the sense that has been locked was unlocking. Then I realized that I was in the middle of many many drawings I have done this week. The act of drawing was like a cleansing process. A cleansing from the nightmare I have experienced in the woods. As a sweet curly hair fairy has mentioned drawing as a way of “not to think”, I experienced it vividly. I did not want to get caught up in the nightmare nor be paranoid thinking about it and to do drawing was a way to not to be caught. But it was different from escaping. It was as if the traumatic experience was drawn away little by little along with the unlocking process. It felt very healing. A week has passed since the unlocking symposium. I have been dreaming more. My heart has softened and my perceptions are transforming. I perceive the world around me a bit differently when I walk on the street; different lines, different feelings, different plants whispering, trying to give messages, more clues, more vivid..... Yes, the Unlocking Week seems like it is still unlocking hidden locks .... |
The 2021 Thinking through Drawing symposium
hashtags: #ttd #unlock #rethink #draw
Recordings of live drawing events during the week 18-22 October, and the online symposium on Saturday 23rd October 2021
In a spirit of hope and regeneration, we are excited to explore the theme of Unlocking at our annual TtD symposium.
How will our communities unlock and open up? How will we confront injustices and crimes against the earth?
Our TtD 2021 hybrid symposium will provide space for us to converse and connect about drawing’s power as a tool to rethink through drawing, to chronicle, confront, conceive and contribute to unique opportunities for rethinking and unlocking, presented by our passions, hopes and fears.
We collaborated with TtD members from around the world, in person and online, to explore:
How to unlock our HIDDEN DRAWERS, how to unlock ourselves and the world from Covid trauma; how to heal; how to breath freely; how to save our breath; how to unlock emotions and blocks to expression.
Our hybrid model combines local live workshops held around the world and global online get-togethers. As usual, the focus is on sharing innovative and diverse drawing practices across fields, formats and platforms. We continue our TtD exploration of How to Unlock your Hidden Drawer, with a wonderful selection of workshops and presentations selected from our open call, relating to Unlocking through Drawing.
For 2021 Thinking Through Drawing are collaborating with Indiana University Southeast US and SUNY New Paltz US.
We look forward to drawing together again
The TtD Board
WORKSHOPS - please see taster videos and info below
We selected more than 20 workshops, presentations and performances from our open call. Some were LIVE online during the week before the symposium, while some were prerecorded, available online for participants.
We selected more than 20 workshops, presentations and performances from our open call. Some were LIVE online during the week before the symposium, while some were prerecorded, available online for participants.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL SCHEDULE
for the build up week and THE SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM
Schedule - ALL TIMES ARE UK (GMT+1) with local times also listed
Saturday 23rd October
10am - 12 noon UK GMT+1 Drawing Together - Collaborative drawing LIVE ONLINE
12 noon - 5.30pm UK GMT+1 LIVE ONLINE Show and Tell panels, with the workshop leaders and presenters
...and around these core times the TtD ZOOM ROOM will be open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together.
1am - 10am UK GMT+1 - TtD ZOOM ROOM open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together
5.30pm - 12 Midnight UK GMT+1- TtD ZOOM ROOM open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together.
for the build up week and THE SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM
Schedule - ALL TIMES ARE UK (GMT+1) with local times also listed
Saturday 23rd October
10am - 12 noon UK GMT+1 Drawing Together - Collaborative drawing LIVE ONLINE
12 noon - 5.30pm UK GMT+1 LIVE ONLINE Show and Tell panels, with the workshop leaders and presenters
...and around these core times the TtD ZOOM ROOM will be open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together.
1am - 10am UK GMT+1 - TtD ZOOM ROOM open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together
5.30pm - 12 Midnight UK GMT+1- TtD ZOOM ROOM open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together.
Prerecorded and recorded content AVAILABLE TO TiCKET HOLDERS NOW - you will be sent access code on purchase of your ticket
Construct, De-construct Sarita Chouhan
Bending, Closely, Breaking, Round Elizabeth Leister
Unlocking a remembrance of place Jenny Wright
Tervahartiala, Marika A pre-recorded slightly academic but yet inspirational 14mins presentation about one ongoing autoethnographical research process about drawing, with drawing and by drawing.
Swarming
The Vienna Drawing Class: Drawing NOW
We will contribute a live online collaborative drawing setting, using colorillo.
Students from the seminar "Drawing Now" will perform a digital collaborative drawing session via the online Platform Colorillo. The minimalist setting will be as follows: A selected verbal text will be reflected - copied - online by active drawers to emphasize the fragility of digital drawings.
The annual seminar "Drawing Now" is directed by Gert Hasenhütl at the University of applied Arts Vienna. The seminar addresses current theories on manual drawing, and examines drawing by hand in times of digitalization.
Participants can observe the process or join in actively by logging on at: https://colorillo.com/
The Vienna Drawing Class: Drawing NOW
We will contribute a live online collaborative drawing setting, using colorillo.
Students from the seminar "Drawing Now" will perform a digital collaborative drawing session via the online Platform Colorillo. The minimalist setting will be as follows: A selected verbal text will be reflected - copied - online by active drawers to emphasize the fragility of digital drawings.
The annual seminar "Drawing Now" is directed by Gert Hasenhütl at the University of applied Arts Vienna. The seminar addresses current theories on manual drawing, and examines drawing by hand in times of digitalization.
Participants can observe the process or join in actively by logging on at: https://colorillo.com/
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Unlock Dreamings
Beatriz Acevedo When we spend almost half of our lives sleeping, dreams have a life on their own and they can be a potential source of wisdom. Alas, we rarely are able to unlock their power. This series of short workshops aims at connecting us with the power of dreams through drawings. Everyday from Monday to Thursday we will meet in the morning (switching between UK / NY morning time) to unlock our dreaming intelligence. Beatriz will guide us on how to make the best of dreams, with simple techniques for a better night sleeping and tips to remember those elusive streams of unconsciousness. Beatriz draws upon her own practice of dreaming, with some ideas from Jung’s approach to dreaming, and this is part of her ongoing purpose of encouraging people to live a beautiful life. |
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Construct, De-construct
Sarita Chouhan As we go inward what unfolds, we meet and we intersect and with us words, thoughts, sounds, scribbles, lines meet, join together and intersect. We construct, deconstruct not looking out for definite meaning here, not to look for beginning or end but to be present in the moment as a community, as a gathering to draw together. So let us come together with sheets of paper, anything to draw- pencils, pens, charcoal, ink or colours and ourselves. |
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Reflecting Through Drawing in collaboration with Access at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Pamela Lawton LIVE IN PERSON WORKSHOP Monday October 18th 2 PM EST at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Draw in a museum setting and experience a perceptual and psychic shift in relationship to the artworks there. Deepen your connection with works of art that focus on healing as you draw. Through tactile experiences and mark-making, explore each artwork’s perspective on wellbeing particular to its place or origin and belief system. Notice the relationship between color and texture in materials and their impact on our engagement with each artwork. Buddhist art, Modern Art and Renaissance Decorative arts will be included. This workshop is for people with any level of sight. This workshop is limited to 15 people. Early registration is suggested. To register, please contact [email protected]. Art supplies are provided. |
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Reflecting Through Drawing in the Conservatory Garden Pamela Lawton LIVE IN PERSON WORKSHOP Tuesday October 19th 2 PM EST2 PM EST at NYC Central Park Exploring the North French Garden of the Conservatory Garden in Central Park, we will connect to nature as artful design, cultivated from within our urban surroundings. We will use the senses of touch, sound, smell, movement and sight to draw in color responding to different stimuli from within the natural and constructed spaces we inhabit. This workshop is for people with any level of sight. This workshop is limited to 15 people. Early registration is suggested. To register, please contact [email protected]. Art supplies will be provided. |
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Anthi Kosma, Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, PhD, DEA ETSA de Madrid
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Listen to your hand-heart
Anthi Kosma LIVE drawing workshop in a locality in Greece with students of architecture school of University of Thessaly. The recording will be available. Listen to your "hand-heart". What if hands were free to trace, without any judgement, as they feel, we could listen to their "voice"? If free-hands movements can draw aisthesis of our inner self then drawing can be perceived as musical scores, the transcript of the body's inner voices, hidden desires, agonies and its traumatized unlocked parts. Draw by listening to an internal reference. With no need to represent a given world but with the intention to "look" inside and link with self expression and its needs. |
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Bending, Closely, Breaking, Round
Elizabeth Leister Bending, Closely, Breaking, Round is the presentation of a 360° video of a drawing performance - a unique perspective on building a drawing through physical movement in space. A charcoal drawing is performed on the floor and recorded with a 360 camera. When the video is experienced inside of a VR headset or on a mobile phone, the audience senses that they are inside the drawing, observing marks being made by a body all around them. This immersive experience unlocks the flat 2D limitation of a traditional drawing and creates a sense of embodied presence during the act of mark-making. |
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In Person sessions take place in Irvine California outside. Please let your California fellow drawers know!
Contact me with questions or to book at: 917-880-8405 or [email protected] deborahlutz-art.com Lutz.Deborah@Instagram |
Drawing with Tape Deborah Lutz ONLINE & IN PERSON Using a roll of masking tape as a drawing tool will challenge your reliance on ability and skill. Instead, the material determines how you feel and find your way into the drawing, pulling a continuous line of tape as you draw. If allowed, the tape lines will amass and build up the drawing surface; they will turn rather than round corners, they will twist creating linear nuances, the tape may shred or tear in places. Being an unwieldly drawing tool, the nature of tape will guide the structure of the drawing. Large paper and a roll of 1” masking is all you need. Drawing to Verbal Description Deborah Lutz ONLINE & IN PERSON By relying on verbal description rather than sight to perceive subject matter, the pressure of ‘seeing to know’ in order to ‘draw what you know’ will fall away. Likewise, regarding and responding to the developing drawing will be also be abandoned. Instead, your non-sighted perception of both the subject matter and your drawing will come together over time in response to the words as you notice them, the cadence and pitch changes of description, the sound of a drawing hand, the nature of materials, the perimeter and feel of a drawing surface. Your drawing will coalesce accordingly as you experience these. Large paper and a variety of less familiar drawing tools are encouraged. |
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A Point in Time
Maggie Nowinski Long rolls of wide paper, unfurled on the ground. Along the center axis, single dots, six feet apart. Participants stand on a dot and have an hour to draw continuously, reaching out to investigate the space around them. A common set of drawing media is provided to each participant (ink/charcoal/brushes on sticks so they can stand, reach, draw). Every 5 minutes a new audio/soundscape prompt – 12 prompts reflecting 12 months, a nod to a year as an extended point in time (in this case reflecting 2020). An exploration of mark-making as a record of individual and collective presence. Establishing a territory of personal space, intermingling through mark making with those adjacent to us, we create a single drawing. |
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Drawing Yoga: Inhabiting Drawings for self-enquiry
Dr Curie Scott Title: Drawing Yoga: Inhabiting Drawings for self-enquiry Facilitator: Dr Curie Scott Duration 45minutes Format LIVE Online workshop (zoom) Date Monday 18th 11.00 UK time Facilitator: Dr Curie Scott Role Education consultant | Somatic coach | Drawing researcher This workshop will contain both recorded and live input and is interactive. You only share what you want to. It will be recorded. Drawing Yoga develops drawing techniques from my PhD research and my new book. You’ll inhabit a felt sense of knowing by drawing around your body. Globally, we’ve been shaken. COVID-19 has caused ruptures or disjunctures in our lives. Many of us became fixed to our immediate location due to lockdowns. Many of us had to change. |
Do join me in this experimental Drawing Yoga workshop. We’ll do some centring (mindful) techniques and then work from and through the body. You’ll need a quiet space with enough room to draw around your body with your arms in a sitting and lying position. You can choose to use gestures to make invisible drawings or draw onto large sheets of paper on the floor for physical drawings. You will need to move your body freely without causing pain.
I’ve spent time experimenting with how to embody drawings. I move, draw into the sand and inhabit the drawings. This ‘Drawing Yoga’ allowed ‘knowing’ to move from head-knowledge to a bodily felt experience. This workshop builds on drawing techniques in my new book for Drawing for Health and Wellbeing. Out for pre-order now & 30% off with the code ‘ARTS’ https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Drawing/?k=9781838673284&pl=1&loc=uk |
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Rethinking Drawing Games
Beatriz Albuquerque Are you up to the challenge? Unlock and open up with drawing games. Drawing games can be used as a tool to confront injustice and violence. How do you unlock yourSelf and the world from trauma? Do you want to rethink how to heal and how to breathe freely? Join us for this hybrid workshop both on-line access and in-person participation available. |
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Drawing helps me nurture my imagination and free association in movement. I have been exploring drawing as a tool for unlearning and freeing the body and mind of ritualistic ties.
A body and a drawing by it -entails a body’s movement, rituals and social conditioning. Materials Required: Space 10 X 6 feet A large sheet of paper (approx. 4ft) Any drawing materials you like working with / holding / touching |
Unlearning Ferwa Ibrahim Date: Oct 18 -22, 2021 Time: 9:00am (UK, GMT +1) Session Duration: 40 minutes Open to all (registration required) [email protected] I am offering a ritual unlearning workshop where participants draw every day for the course of this symposium. I feel that understanding of one’s own body and its becoming can only be achieved by practicing deep meditation. The workshop is built on different drawing exercises inspired by Authentic Movement and Automatic Drawing. The exercises also draw upon Carl Gustav Jung’s method of active imagination to invite free association in movement. Through this we hope to research if drawing every day can lead to the development of new impulses and movements of the body. Also, if the development of kinaesthetic awareness through drawing can lead to rethinking the movements and rituals previously known to the body. We hope to create, “… moments of total awareness, -the coming together of what I am doing and what is happening to me”. Mary Whitehouse. |
Find a clearer picture of your purpose
Tim Hamons
As creative leaders, how can we identify a more empowering personal narrative to move us past complexity and uncertainty into clarity and understanding? Industries and individuals are being challenged to reinvent. The questions of purpose: who we are, why we are here, how can I best serve, become invitations to reimagine. In this interactive visual workshop, I will share with you tools, stories, and a framework to re-imagine your purpose using the power of simple hand drawn pictures.
In this session, you will:
- Learn how to create a simple visual model to anchor your purpose
- Create a dynamic visual map of your next 6 months personal and professional journey
- Learn fundamentals of visual storytelling
TIME & DATE TBC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhamons/
Unlocking/rethinking (beauty) through drawing: the medium is the message (skin as paper and/or paper as skin)
Lucie Russell / Drawing People Together
LIVE on SUNDAY 17th OCTOBER 1pm -5pm UK GMT+1 (Drop in with limited space) in the Gallery at Holdrons Arcade 135a Rye Lane Peckham SE15 4ST
We will draw, talk and collage about beauty as a construct, deconstructing and reconstructing images of normative beauty ideals. Considering the recuperation of reappropriated images. And experimenting with the notion of glamour as enchantment, and exploring the magic of what beauty could become…
Lucie Russell / Drawing People Together
LIVE on SUNDAY 17th OCTOBER 1pm -5pm UK GMT+1 (Drop in with limited space) in the Gallery at Holdrons Arcade 135a Rye Lane Peckham SE15 4ST
We will draw, talk and collage about beauty as a construct, deconstructing and reconstructing images of normative beauty ideals. Considering the recuperation of reappropriated images. And experimenting with the notion of glamour as enchantment, and exploring the magic of what beauty could become…
Unlocking our Memories
Emma Strangwayes-Booth
LIVE ONLINE
Join me for this 60 minute workshop where we will draw images from our past to help us better understand our motivations in the present and free ourselves from creative blocks. Using specific techniques like automatic drawing as well as word triggers and visualisations, I will help you access your subconscious by drawing your memories.
Using any size paper and easily accessible mediums like graphite, colouring pencil, pen and ink or water based paint, I will lead you on a healing journey through your unconscious mind.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Emma Strangwayes-Booth
LIVE ONLINE
Join me for this 60 minute workshop where we will draw images from our past to help us better understand our motivations in the present and free ourselves from creative blocks. Using specific techniques like automatic drawing as well as word triggers and visualisations, I will help you access your subconscious by drawing your memories.
Using any size paper and easily accessible mediums like graphite, colouring pencil, pen and ink or water based paint, I will lead you on a healing journey through your unconscious mind.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
PRESENTATIONS & PERFORMANCES
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Unlocking a remembrance of place
Jenny Wright As lockdown lifts I have been able to use drawing as a vehicle to unlock memories with someone experiencing dramatic shifts in perception of time and space as a result of Alzheimer’s disease. In my presentation I give examples of how drawing can be used as part of an empathic dialogue; an affirming action, where thoughts and ideas are resolved and anxieties calmed. Drawings do not conform to conventional linearity of time, can be part of a documentation of fluctuating ‘then and now’, ‘here and not here’, supplementing and supporting visual imagery in photographs and digital technologies. |
Work in Process
TOUCH BAR Drawing out the invisible
Anna Väisänen & Emma Fält
LIVE Stream from Gallery Ars Libera, Kuopio, Finland
1PM-5PM Live stream
TOUCH BAR is a concept and space that explores softness, descent, and dialogue between people and objects. The work is an experimental series of one-on-one encounters that explore contact without physical contact and between artists the physicality of it. Various artifacts are used as instruments of touch, which Fält & Väisänen will study during their working period. In TOUCH BAR artists will create a space where you stop to listen, sensitize the senses, create a common ritual, explore touch, look and, through looking, find an opportunity to touch or become touched. Handshake, hug, encouraging pressure on the shoulder. We have lived in a world where we greet acquaintances and strangers with a touch. The coronavirus pandemic has completely changed the culture of contact. At the moment, touching is not allowed, it is feared and even horrified. How much touch is needed in everyday situations in life? How significant a part has it been in our lives? What are the effects of not being able to touch each other? Touch creates basic security for people, it comforts, empowers. In a safe space and environment, it can have healing effects, touch brings people together, it cares and nurtures. Touch evokes the imagination, it can bring back memories, it allows you to travel through the imagination to another time and place.
Finnish artists, freelance dancer Anna Väisänen & and multidisciplinary artist Emma Fält are currently working on a larger Live - art project that is mapping utopias and investigating the power of dreaming and imagination. During the time of the TtD - symposium we will be investigating our boundaries and possibilities in active and empathic listening through drawing, touch, sound and movement in a local gallery in Kuopio, Finland. By using novel sound interfaces for musical expression, we will be creating a soundscape from human touch with a special midi controller, microphones and live processing of the sound. Our work will be durational and the viewer can visit different scenarios and working methods during the 4 hour long session. We will be sharing the scores we use for anyone interested.
TOUCH BAR Drawing out the invisible
Anna Väisänen & Emma Fält
LIVE Stream from Gallery Ars Libera, Kuopio, Finland
1PM-5PM Live stream
TOUCH BAR is a concept and space that explores softness, descent, and dialogue between people and objects. The work is an experimental series of one-on-one encounters that explore contact without physical contact and between artists the physicality of it. Various artifacts are used as instruments of touch, which Fält & Väisänen will study during their working period. In TOUCH BAR artists will create a space where you stop to listen, sensitize the senses, create a common ritual, explore touch, look and, through looking, find an opportunity to touch or become touched. Handshake, hug, encouraging pressure on the shoulder. We have lived in a world where we greet acquaintances and strangers with a touch. The coronavirus pandemic has completely changed the culture of contact. At the moment, touching is not allowed, it is feared and even horrified. How much touch is needed in everyday situations in life? How significant a part has it been in our lives? What are the effects of not being able to touch each other? Touch creates basic security for people, it comforts, empowers. In a safe space and environment, it can have healing effects, touch brings people together, it cares and nurtures. Touch evokes the imagination, it can bring back memories, it allows you to travel through the imagination to another time and place.
Finnish artists, freelance dancer Anna Väisänen & and multidisciplinary artist Emma Fält are currently working on a larger Live - art project that is mapping utopias and investigating the power of dreaming and imagination. During the time of the TtD - symposium we will be investigating our boundaries and possibilities in active and empathic listening through drawing, touch, sound and movement in a local gallery in Kuopio, Finland. By using novel sound interfaces for musical expression, we will be creating a soundscape from human touch with a special midi controller, microphones and live processing of the sound. Our work will be durational and the viewer can visit different scenarios and working methods during the 4 hour long session. We will be sharing the scores we use for anyone interested.
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Metacomics. Turning dreams into reality with the magic of comics
Luis Bellido Architect and Visual Coach 'Empowering people, one drawing at a time' In this presentation, I will share how I discovered the superpower of turning my dreams into reality with the magic of comics and coaching, and how I share this superpower with others via working as a visual coach. I will cover: - My life journey: from architecture in Peru to art education and coaching in Finland. - My academic journey: my master´s thesis “meta-cognitive-comics, an exploration of metacognition via metacomics”. - My professional journey: how I turned this theoretical investigation into a way of living as a solopreneur, via the Metacomics company and method. I will also show examples of my work with individuals and organizations, and myself, in topics such as visual manifestation, gratitude, and confidence, among many others. If you would like to know more about my work, you would check: https://startuprefugees.com/entrepreneurs/metacomics/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisbellidocoachmetacomicsmethod/detail/recent-activity/shares/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/metacomics.self.awareness.with.drawings Plus here is a link to a previous workshop: Visualize your goal strategy |
VIDEO Introduction of Metacomics. Turning dreams into reality with the magic of comics
In this video, I explain my mission with Metacomics - empowering people to turn their dreams into reality with the magic of comics -. I also tell the topics that I will cover in my full presentation. Which includes my life, academic and professional journey, from architecture in Peru to art education and coaching in Finland. As a sneak peek, I show an example of my own personal development (Minute: 2:00): “Balancing your superpowers”. Here I reflect on how one´s strength can turn into a weakness if overused. But this weakness can be turned back into a strength - a superpower! -, if used in the right way. Via reflecting with comics, we can gain the clarity to consciously decide what side of the coin would we like to focus our energy on. |
Tervahartiala, Marika
A pre-recorded slightly academic but yet inspirational 14mins presentation about one ongoing autoethnographical research process about drawing, with drawing and by drawing. Starting from visual ethnography and moving-drawing through ontological and ethical questions, research and art undivided, using art as “a strange tool” and ending up resting in not-knowing. Twisting and turning the research questions, wondering the relationship towards Academia and finding comforting joy in drawing. Plenty of literature and references included separately.
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A journey through 10 drawings
with Angela Hodgson-Teall Unlocking the past by re-viewing my drawings, exploring potentials and possibilities, in order to contemplate future development Angela is one of the original members of TTD and has attended all our symposia. This TtD member interview is the first of what we hope are many, enabling us to learn more about one another's creative lives, as well as our teaching and research practices. |
Time and drawing
Laia Sole
During the 2020 pandemic year many artists and educators engaged with drawing. The reasons are manifold: accessibility and immediacy of drawing materials and processes, gratification of materiality within a context of remote/digital everyday life, the pleasure of kinestetics within a context of restricted mobility, or simply the impossibility to go to the studio. Drawing granted us with time for thinking, for exploring and making sense of the circumstances. The presentation draws upon an ongoing research exploring what of that turn towards drawing has been left through the voices of various educators and artists, including myself.
Laia Sole
Directora del Departament de Didàctica de les Arts i les Ciències.
Doctora en Educació per Teachers College, Columbia University.
Laia Sole
During the 2020 pandemic year many artists and educators engaged with drawing. The reasons are manifold: accessibility and immediacy of drawing materials and processes, gratification of materiality within a context of remote/digital everyday life, the pleasure of kinestetics within a context of restricted mobility, or simply the impossibility to go to the studio. Drawing granted us with time for thinking, for exploring and making sense of the circumstances. The presentation draws upon an ongoing research exploring what of that turn towards drawing has been left through the voices of various educators and artists, including myself.
Laia Sole
Directora del Departament de Didàctica de les Arts i les Ciències.
Doctora en Educació per Teachers College, Columbia University.
Swarm by Drawing NOW, Vienna. Collaborative drawing ONLINE LIVE
Details coming soon
Details coming soon
Drawing Together in Nature - Sharing where we are Angie Brew
A popular 2B workshop, where we use our phones, tablets or laptops to share our localities, and draw together. So far we have participants coming from New York Central Park, Watford UK and Mumbai. Please join us!
A popular 2B workshop, where we use our phones, tablets or laptops to share our localities, and draw together. So far we have participants coming from New York Central Park, Watford UK and Mumbai. Please join us!
DRAWING TOGETHER
The Amber Tree - we will continue 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.
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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.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Beatriz Acevedo (Colombia/United Kingdom) also known as CreatiBe Oracle is an artist and educator passionate about re-sparking the creative super-powers of individuals, communities and organisations. She has extensive experience in higher education, recognised by her National Teaching Fellowship (2020), and is writing about Beautiful Living.
Beatriz Albuquerque lives and works between Porto and New York. 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 from Columbia University, New York; and the Ambient Performance Series Award, PAC / edge Performance Festival, Chicago.
www.beatrizalbuquerque.com
Affiliations: NIAM-ISCE Douro - Núcleo de Investigação em Artes e Multimédia do ISCE Douro, Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro; CEIS20 - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Escola das Artes, Universidade de Coimbra; CITAR - Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal.
www.beatrizalbuquerque.com
Affiliations: NIAM-ISCE Douro - Núcleo de Investigação em Artes e Multimédia do ISCE Douro, Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro; CEIS20 - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Escola das Artes, Universidade de Coimbra; CITAR - Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal.
Luis Bellido
Hi, I am Luis Bellido, architect, art educator, and coach with a special focus on visual manifestation. I founded and work with Metacomics, a method that combines coaching with visual tools, and sometimes beyond that. After working in architecture in two recognized offices for around 6 years in Lima, Perú, my city of origin, I decided to shift the approach of my contribution to society to a more humanistic way via education and coaching, and also to fulfil a lifelong dream of moving abroad. In that way, I relocated to Finland, where I graduated with a Master of Arts in Aalto University. As an art educator, I work in the Comic Center of Finland teaching comics courses (combined personal development and various educational topics) for kids, youth, and adults. I am also interested in sustainable development, I am vegan and passionate about sports, like acrobatics and long-distance running, among others; learning by traveling, and love doing collaborations. Lately, I am exploring spiritual tools, and reconnecting with architecture again. I am working on creating “meta-architecture” architecture for the spirit.
You can see more about my work on:
https://startuprefugees.com/entrepreneurs/metacomics/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisbellidocoachmetacomicsmethod/detail/recent-activity/shares/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/metacomics.self.awareness.with.drawings
Podcast interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZFNuujOVg
Confidence workshop; Manifestation Retreat; Visual Problem-Solving
Research-based: Meta-cognitive-comics. An exploration of metacognition via metacomics
Hi, I am Luis Bellido, architect, art educator, and coach with a special focus on visual manifestation. I founded and work with Metacomics, a method that combines coaching with visual tools, and sometimes beyond that. After working in architecture in two recognized offices for around 6 years in Lima, Perú, my city of origin, I decided to shift the approach of my contribution to society to a more humanistic way via education and coaching, and also to fulfil a lifelong dream of moving abroad. In that way, I relocated to Finland, where I graduated with a Master of Arts in Aalto University. As an art educator, I work in the Comic Center of Finland teaching comics courses (combined personal development and various educational topics) for kids, youth, and adults. I am also interested in sustainable development, I am vegan and passionate about sports, like acrobatics and long-distance running, among others; learning by traveling, and love doing collaborations. Lately, I am exploring spiritual tools, and reconnecting with architecture again. I am working on creating “meta-architecture” architecture for the spirit.
You can see more about my work on:
https://startuprefugees.com/entrepreneurs/metacomics/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisbellidocoachmetacomicsmethod/detail/recent-activity/shares/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/metacomics.self.awareness.with.drawings
Podcast interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZFNuujOVg
Confidence workshop; Manifestation Retreat; Visual Problem-Solving
Research-based: Meta-cognitive-comics. An exploration of metacognition via metacomics
Sarita Chouhan is a visual artist and her inter-disciplinary art practice, primarily drawing based is meditative in nature reflecting her interest in mysticism, spirituality and ecology. Sarita has exhibited her works in solos, group shows and participated in residencies in India and abroad. Her collaborative work with French butoh dancer Lucie Betz was a collaboration between drawing installations and performance. Sarita lives in Mumbai where she practices art and has conducted art workshops with Schools and N.G.Os and in lockdown she has been taking a series of virtual/ online workshops for children across diverse backgrounds.
http://sarichouhan.blogspot.com
https://www.instagram.com/saritarchouhan/?hl=en
http://saritalucie.blogspot.com
http://sarichouhan.blogspot.com
https://www.instagram.com/saritarchouhan/?hl=en
http://saritalucie.blogspot.com
Tim Hamons is a visual facilitator, coach, and trainer with over 20 years of experience drawing, speaking, training with clients throughout Asia and the world. Tim is passionate about creative transformation. As a visual facilitator and coach, he helps teams to articulate and visualise strategy, map solutions, and create, connect and collaborate better with a marker in their hands. He has worked with a wide range of organisations and industries to create narratives and metaphors for change, articulate branding strategy, and catalyse teams. Tim believes that by creating the right environment, with the right tools, is half the battle won towards effecting positive change. Visual tools and models create environments that encourage collaborative problem-solving, bigger-picture thinking, and collective ownership of the results. As a speaker and trainer, he uses live sketching in his presentations to frame key messages, build interactive storytelling, and boost curiosity, engagement and take-away value through the roof. An American Citizen, Tim has lived and worked in Singapore since 1991. Together with his wife Irene, they set up Art of Awakening in 2011 to transform meetings and conversations through interactive visual storytelling.
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.
Ferwa Ibrahim is a Pakistan video and performance artist, currently living in Dubai, UAE. She has been reading into the language of her body that she developed as a Muslim woman. Her work explores how cultural and religious ritualistic practices affect one’s body language. She has a Masters in Fine Art from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and a PGDE in Art Education. Since the past 10 years she has been teaching art and creativity to different levels of learners in Pakistan, UAE and the USA. She has developed curriculum and introduced new teaching pedagogy through courses such as Visual Thinking and Performance Art for undergraduate students.
Anthi Kosma
Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, PhD, DEA ETSA de Madrid
Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, PhD, DEA ETSA de Madrid
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. Forwarding her artwork into the realm of tactility, she merged her own making practice with community-engaged practice at the Uffizi Galleries, the Benaki Museum (Athens) and the Palazzo Strozzi. Solo shows include the Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica, the Galeria Isabel Ignacio, Spain, and The Conde Nast Building, and 180 Maiden Lane. 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. While teaching at New School University, she created a Sri Lanka-based class. She teaches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Manhattanville College. www.pamelalawton.com
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. Forwarding her artwork into the realm of tactility, she merged her own making practice with community-engaged practice at the Uffizi Galleries, the Benaki Museum (Athens) and the Palazzo Strozzi. Solo shows include the Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica, the Galeria Isabel Ignacio, Spain, and The Conde Nast Building, and 180 Maiden Lane. 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. While teaching at New School University, she created a Sri Lanka-based class. She teaches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Manhattanville College. www.pamelalawton.com
Elizabeth Leister
Leister engages a research-based practice that intersects art and technology. Her projects have been presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Drawing Center, Art in General and P.S. 122, Highways Performance Space and various artist run spaces. Leister has performed at homeLA, LACE, Perform Chinatown, Beyond Baroque, Outpost Artists Resources, etc. and her recent VR experiences have been presented at XR for Change, Currents New Media Festival, FIVARS and Mana Body + Camera Festival and additional festivals. Leister is Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Production in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at CSUN.
www.elizabethleister.com
https://vimeo.com/elizabethleister
Leister engages a research-based practice that intersects art and technology. Her projects have been presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Drawing Center, Art in General and P.S. 122, Highways Performance Space and various artist run spaces. Leister has performed at homeLA, LACE, Perform Chinatown, Beyond Baroque, Outpost Artists Resources, etc. and her recent VR experiences have been presented at XR for Change, Currents New Media Festival, FIVARS and Mana Body + Camera Festival and additional festivals. Leister is Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Production in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at CSUN.
www.elizabethleister.com
https://vimeo.com/elizabethleister
Deborah Lutz is a figurative and abstract artist interested in perception and the formal act of drawing. She teaches ‘Seeing Through Drawing’, a process-based class for people with vision impairments for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has an expertise in verbal description as an approach for accessing art. In 2019 her drawing ‘Tentative Sight’ was exhibited in The Painting Center ‘Patterns of Influence’ group show. She was a presenting panel member at the 2012 NAEA Conference: ‘Seeing Through Drawing; Touch, Drawing, and Mental Imagery in People With and Without Visual Impairments’. Deborah received her B.F.A. from Bowling Green State University, and her M.F.A. from The New York Academy of Figurative Art. She lives and works between both coasts.
www.Deborahlutz-art.com
Lutz.Deborah@Instagram
www.Deborahlutz-art.com
Lutz.Deborah@Instagram
Maggie Nowinski
Originally from NY, Maggie Nowinski is an artist, educator and curator in Western MA. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Westfield State University in MA, and at Manchester Community College in CT. Nowinski maintains an active exhibition record and has a current solo exhibition A wHole Recollection featuring 365 Daily Covid drawings and a large-scale installation of wHoles (30’x25’) at the von Auersperg Gallery in Deerfield MA. Her work is rooted in drawing & installation and her practice is embodied by an awareness of the socio-political nature of art making.
Instagram @maggienow and www.maggienowinski.org
Originally from NY, Maggie Nowinski is an artist, educator and curator in Western MA. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Westfield State University in MA, and at Manchester Community College in CT. Nowinski maintains an active exhibition record and has a current solo exhibition A wHole Recollection featuring 365 Daily Covid drawings and a large-scale installation of wHoles (30’x25’) at the von Auersperg Gallery in Deerfield MA. Her work is rooted in drawing & installation and her practice is embodied by an awareness of the socio-political nature of art making.
Instagram @maggienow and www.maggienowinski.org
Lucie Russell is a London based artist, researcher and drawing facilitator. She studied at Winchester School of Art (BA Hons) and was awarded an MA from the Royal College of Art. Her drawing practice focuses on visual representations of the body(s), people’s experiences of drawing as both verb and a noun, creates the foundation of her (LDoc funded) practice-based PhD at Central Saint Martins, UAL. As Drawing People Together she designs and facilitates inclusive and socially-engaged community events. Creating an ongoing diverse range of workshops that explore art as both playful and serious by inviting everyone, of all ages and abilities, to quite literally draw together.
Instagram @drawing.people.together
Instagram @drawing.people.together
Curie Scott is an independent Education and Arts & Health consultant, coach and artist. Qualified in medicine, science and education, her knowledge and research span Arts and Health. She is an award- winning teacher, having taught hundreds of health professional students. Her reflective thinking through drawing workshops use expressive drawing to reconnect people to their bodies and surrounding environment
Social media https://twitter.com/DrDr_CurieScott
https://www.linkedin.com/in/curiescott/
Social media https://twitter.com/DrDr_CurieScott
https://www.linkedin.com/in/curiescott/
Laia Sole
Artist, researcher and educator, Laia Sole has developed a body of work centered on space & experience, which she likes to approach and respond to through drawing, video and sound. Her work has been shown at Cuchifritos Galery (NYC, 2018, 2016), The Drawing Center (NYC, 2015), Fundació Chirivella-Soriano (València, 2015) among others. Doctor in Education (CU), graduated in Fine Arts (UB), she is currently professor of art education at Universitat de Vic (UVic-UCC).
http://laiasole.net/
@lalaiasole
Artist, researcher and educator, Laia Sole has developed a body of work centered on space & experience, which she likes to approach and respond to through drawing, video and sound. Her work has been shown at Cuchifritos Galery (NYC, 2018, 2016), The Drawing Center (NYC, 2015), Fundació Chirivella-Soriano (València, 2015) among others. Doctor in Education (CU), graduated in Fine Arts (UB), she is currently professor of art education at Universitat de Vic (UVic-UCC).
http://laiasole.net/
@lalaiasole
Emma Strangwayes-Booth
Paris based, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Strangwayes-Booth uses drawing to tap into her subconscious and unconscious mind as a means to help heal trauma and create a narrative journey. As well as the use of memory she also weaves into her work her dreams and stories.
Since 2017 she has been printmaking, using drypoint and etching techniques on plexiglass and metal.
Her work has been shown internationally including a solo show at the National Museum of Art in Riga and most recently as part of a virtual lockdown show at the municipal art space in Charenton le Pont and with the Bo Halbirk Studio at the Contemporary Print art fair in Paris.
www.emsbooth.com
Paris based, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Strangwayes-Booth uses drawing to tap into her subconscious and unconscious mind as a means to help heal trauma and create a narrative journey. As well as the use of memory she also weaves into her work her dreams and stories.
Since 2017 she has been printmaking, using drypoint and etching techniques on plexiglass and metal.
Her work has been shown internationally including a solo show at the National Museum of Art in Riga and most recently as part of a virtual lockdown show at the municipal art space in Charenton le Pont and with the Bo Halbirk Studio at the Contemporary Print art fair in Paris.
www.emsbooth.com
Marika Tervahartiala
A Finnish drawer, an autoethnographer, an art educator and a researcher. Master of Arts, now working on my doctoral studies of art education at the Aalto University, Helsinki. Professional in participatory and community arts. Exploring drawing within autoethnographic and artistic research frameworks. Currently working as an art teacher in upper secondary school, dreaming of having more time for drawing in my studio and garden(ing).
Some drawing-related things I have done lately:
Tervahartiala, Marika. 2020. “Sharpening the pencil. A visual journey towards the outlines of drawing as an autoethnographical method.” In Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research. Ethnography with a Twist. Edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Viktorija L.A. Ceginskas, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, 100-114. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355608
Open access: https://bit.ly/38n1fTH
2020 Video production with artist collective “Koronan kohottamat” (transl. “Uplifted by Covid19”) 11th Painted touch: “I want to wonder”
https://youtu.be/T1cHbci_gzs
2020 Pro Bono project as a visual facilitator-drawer with The Federation of Mother and child homes and Shelters; a Finnish nationwide child welfare organization. https://youtu.be/3Gk0UN6jeoM
A Finnish drawer, an autoethnographer, an art educator and a researcher. Master of Arts, now working on my doctoral studies of art education at the Aalto University, Helsinki. Professional in participatory and community arts. Exploring drawing within autoethnographic and artistic research frameworks. Currently working as an art teacher in upper secondary school, dreaming of having more time for drawing in my studio and garden(ing).
Some drawing-related things I have done lately:
Tervahartiala, Marika. 2020. “Sharpening the pencil. A visual journey towards the outlines of drawing as an autoethnographical method.” In Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research. Ethnography with a Twist. Edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Viktorija L.A. Ceginskas, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, 100-114. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355608
Open access: https://bit.ly/38n1fTH
2020 Video production with artist collective “Koronan kohottamat” (transl. “Uplifted by Covid19”) 11th Painted touch: “I want to wonder”
https://youtu.be/T1cHbci_gzs
2020 Pro Bono project as a visual facilitator-drawer with The Federation of Mother and child homes and Shelters; a Finnish nationwide child welfare organization. https://youtu.be/3Gk0UN6jeoM
Emma Strangwayes-Booth
Paris based, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Strangwayes-Booth uses drawing to tap into her subconscious and unconscious mind as a means to help heal trauma and create a narrative journey. As well as the use of memory she also weaves into her work her dreams and stories. Since 2017 she has been printmaking, using drypoint and etching techniques on plexiglass and metal. Her work has been shown internationally including a solo show at the National Museum of Art in Riga and most recently as part of a virtual lockdown show at the municipal art space in Charenton le Pont and with the Bo Halbirk Studio at the Contemporary Print art fair in Paris.
www.emsbooth.com
Paris based, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Strangwayes-Booth uses drawing to tap into her subconscious and unconscious mind as a means to help heal trauma and create a narrative journey. As well as the use of memory she also weaves into her work her dreams and stories. Since 2017 she has been printmaking, using drypoint and etching techniques on plexiglass and metal. Her work has been shown internationally including a solo show at the National Museum of Art in Riga and most recently as part of a virtual lockdown show at the municipal art space in Charenton le Pont and with the Bo Halbirk Studio at the Contemporary Print art fair in Paris.
www.emsbooth.com
Jenny Wright
I completed my PhD at the University of the Arts London, exploring drawing within the field of surgery and emerging technologies. The research built on sketches that I made in operating theatres leading to finished drawings exploring movement and haptics. My studies were supported by researchers at Kings College London Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial sciences using data from the hapTEL system. I currently work with medical and dental professionals exploring drawing methods to describe infection routes linked to Alzheimer’s disease and changes in memory experienced by those living with dementia.
Instagram account dr_jenny_wright17
I completed my PhD at the University of the Arts London, exploring drawing within the field of surgery and emerging technologies. The research built on sketches that I made in operating theatres leading to finished drawings exploring movement and haptics. My studies were supported by researchers at Kings College London Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial sciences using data from the hapTEL system. I currently work with medical and dental professionals exploring drawing methods to describe infection routes linked to Alzheimer’s disease and changes in memory experienced by those living with dementia.
Instagram account dr_jenny_wright17
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Thinking through Drawing has consistently produced, published, and presented original drawing research and curriculum. It has hosted various courses and workshops as well as six international symposia, in collaboration with Columbia University, University of the Arts London, Indiana University Southeast, SUNY New Paltz, Loughborough University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York