MARKING TIME
TtD 2024 Symposium
Friday 25th - Sunday 27th October 2024
Live, in-person, online and recorded workshops & presentations
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The symposium went very well - thank you.
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THE SCHEDULE - all times listed are UK times; please check times in your time zone. NB the hour goes back an hour in UK on Saturday night, to GMT.
Warm up week - Monday 21st to Friday 25th October
8am DAILY Ferwa Ibrahim, 40 min workshop
9am DAILY Flora & Fauna, The Angies 40 min workshop
10am Wednesday & Thursday 23rd & 24th October, Drawing Nature workshop
Friday 25th October
10am Dreaming - Beatriz Acevado & Michelle Darlington
5pm TTD WELCOME
Saturday 26th October
10am Dreaming - Beatriz Acevado & Michelle Darlington
11am Ferwa Ibrahim
11.45am TTD Welcome
12:15pm Michelle Darlington
1pm Anthi
2pm Binelde Artist Talk
3pm Emily Sheehan
4pm Panel Discussion
Sunday 27th October
10am Dreaming - Beatriz Acevado & Michelle Darlington
11am Ferwa Ibrahim
11.45am TTD Welcome
12:15 pm Sarita
1:00 pm Drawing Nature - Titus, Angie & Sarita
2:00pm Beatriz Albuquerque
3pm Entangled Time - PIRG
4pm Panel Discussion
Session times
8am
9am
10am
11am
11:45am
12:15pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
Warm up week - Monday 21st to Friday 25th October
8am DAILY Ferwa Ibrahim, 40 min workshop
9am DAILY Flora & Fauna, The Angies 40 min workshop
10am Wednesday & Thursday 23rd & 24th October, Drawing Nature workshop
Friday 25th October
10am Dreaming - Beatriz Acevado & Michelle Darlington
5pm TTD WELCOME
Saturday 26th October
10am Dreaming - Beatriz Acevado & Michelle Darlington
11am Ferwa Ibrahim
11.45am TTD Welcome
12:15pm Michelle Darlington
1pm Anthi
2pm Binelde Artist Talk
3pm Emily Sheehan
4pm Panel Discussion
Sunday 27th October
10am Dreaming - Beatriz Acevado & Michelle Darlington
11am Ferwa Ibrahim
11.45am TTD Welcome
12:15 pm Sarita
1:00 pm Drawing Nature - Titus, Angie & Sarita
2:00pm Beatriz Albuquerque
3pm Entangled Time - PIRG
4pm Panel Discussion
Session times
8am
9am
10am
11am
11:45am
12:15pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
The 2024 Thinking through Drawing symposium
hashtags: #ttd #drawcogs
In a spirit of hope, healing and imagination, we will explore the theme of Marking Time at our annual symposium.
We are collaborating with TtD members from around the world, in person and online, to explore:
How do you use drawing and mark-making to understand Time and Space? How do you locate and regulate yourself in our ever-changing world? How do you make a creative environment for yourself and others?
We have an exciting and diverse programme of workshops and presentations that engage time as an essential element of drawing practice/research/expression, including procedural, performative, sequential, and documentary drawing approaches. Our TtD 2024 hybrid symposium will provide space for us to connect and converse about drawing’s power as a tool to chronicle, confront, conceive, create and recreate. Our hybrid model combines local live workshops held around the world and global online get-togethers. As usual, the focus will be on sharing innovative and diverse drawing practices across fields, formats and platforms. We will continue our TtD exploration of sharing practices and problem solving with a wonderful selection of workshops and presentations selected from our open call, relating to Marking Time.
For 2024 Thinking Through Drawing are collaborating with Brew Draw and Indiana University Southeast US.
We look forward to drawing together again
The TtD Board
WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS & PERFORMANCES
Some workshops will be LIVE online during the symposium, some will be pre-recorded, ALL will be available online for participants.
Some workshops will be LIVE online during the symposium, some will be pre-recorded, ALL will be available online for participants.
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Moving Forward
Emily Sheehan Live Online Drawing Workshop Walking enables the human body to move through space using a repeated sequence of motions that involve leaning forward and catching ourselves to navigate in new directions step by step. This life drawing workshop employs the key poses of an animated walk cycle as an effective framework for analyzing changes in balance and movement during locomotion. Participants will experience, analyze, and draw these key poses to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanics involved in how the body mobilizes. |
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What happens when you make a collaborative drawing?
A conversation between artists Jenny Purrett and Laura Fox, discussing: How does the question of ownership - before, during and after, a drawing is made - impact its outcome? And what is the real value of collaboration on an individual’s art practice? |
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Breathe In, Breathe Out Dr. Anthi Kosma, GREECE In her first breath drawing, Jill O'Bryan counted 40,000 breaths (from June 20, 2000, to March 15, 2005). She traced each inhale and exhale with individual graphite marks, each connected to bodily movement and the natural environment, as a way to explore the experience of being, time, and place. What if we close our eyes and use breath practices to measure our [drawing] time? Let’s push the boundaries of drawing in an “out-of-place” and “out-of-time,” non-ocularcentric, embodied, and deeply connected experience. https://imprografika.com/ https://www.anthikosma.com/ https://www.instagram.com/anthoskosmos/ In-person LIVE Streamed Workshop Workshop with local community (University of Thessaly). SHORT VIDEO INTRODUCTION - to follow soon |
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Daily Online Live Workshops
Materials Required: Quiet space, wireless headphones, several sheets of paper, any drawing materials you like working with / holding / touching. For further details: [email protected] |
Unlearning
Ferwa Ibrahim, UAE 7 Drawing Sessions Monday 21st October - Sunday 27th October Session Duration: 40 minutes Drawing helps me nurture my imagination and free association in movement. I have been exploring drawing as a tool for unlearning / freeing the body and mind of ritualistic ties. A body and a drawing by it -entails a body’s movement, rituals and social conditioning. Participants will draw for 30 minutes every day . These structured, drawing meditations are influenced by Authentic Movement, Automatic Drawing and yoga. They also draw upon Carl Gustav Jung’s method of active imagination to invite free association in movement. Through this workshop, we hope to research whether drawing every day can lead to the development of active imagination, impulses, and movements of the body. Additionally, we aim to explore if the development of kinesthetic awareness through drawing can lead to rethinking the movements and rituals previously known to the body. |
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Pattern as embodied perception of time
Mehr Javed CANCELLED - with apologies from presenter Using exploratory drawing to engage a slow, contemplative viewing, and to investigate the generative capacity of geometric motifs as metaphors for the Infinitesimal and the Infinite as explored through techniques of repetition, tessellation and seriality. link to portfolio. |
Artist's talk
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Un-Frozen Performative Drawing
Beatriz Albuquerque In this workshop, we will explore performance as drawing and drawing as performance. Instead of a static or frozen drawing, we will engage and develop new ways to feel and experience time, space, movement and the body as essential elements of drawing practice and expression in performative drawing. |
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Time, space, and unbelonging: a discussion
Kay Sohini & Matt Finch
CANCELLED - with apologies from presenters.
"They say that time heals. But in my experience, grief slows down time. It interrupts the directional, linear way we perceive time."
This one-hour online session focusses on representations of time in the work of researcher, writer, and comics maker Kay Sohini. What special relationship does the comics medium have to time? How do comics-making and comics-reading affect our own experience of time? And what might the future hold for comics?
Kay Sohini & Matt Finch
CANCELLED - with apologies from presenters.
"They say that time heals. But in my experience, grief slows down time. It interrupts the directional, linear way we perceive time."
This one-hour online session focusses on representations of time in the work of researcher, writer, and comics maker Kay Sohini. What special relationship does the comics medium have to time? How do comics-making and comics-reading affect our own experience of time? And what might the future hold for comics?
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Drawing Music, Marking time: the structure and impact of music notations
David Griffin A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. It is a mechanism for planning, analysis, annotation, and performance of music. But how do we read that simple two-dimensional geometry and create such complex, four-dimensional performances? |
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Entangled Time
by the Phenomenology and Imagination Research Group (PIRG) Jane A Bennett, Belinda Mitchel, Yonat Nitzan-Green The Phenomenology and Imagination Research Group (PIRG) is an independent group of artist-researchers that acts in gaps inside, outside and between institutions, from participating in conferences to performative walks. As part of its methodology of ‘expanded conversation’ PIRG has developed a research method entitled the Table Method (tm) that embodies material thinking within a slowed-time framework. The workshop will follow the process of introduction, slow reading of a short text, text-based conversation, transition time, drawing (in its widest sense) in response to the text, and conversation prompted by the drawings. Sites of Conversation | TRACEY - Drawing and Visualisation Research (lboro.ac.uk) https://blog.soton.ac.uk/wsapgr/phenomenology-and-imagination-research-group/ |
LIVE Workshop
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Fragments of a Method Elke Finkenauer A presentation about ‘Fragments of a Method’ (2020-2023), a durational drawing project that documents the material contents of my studio through fast-drawings and descriptions of 5,279 things. The project follows three guiding rules: 1) let mistakes be visible, 2) make no new purchases, 3) avoid value judgements and quantifiable information. These principles shifted the focus from outcome to process, creating space for improvisation, resourcefulness and unexpected results. The project materialises as 697 pages of drawing in 19 books hand-stitched from recycled paper, 32 pages of miniature colour-fields, and a 50-page list. |
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Light Shines Through Sarita Chouhan In darkness, in moments of suffering, we pray and we seek light to shine and remove all the shadows and heal. We walk and walk, feeling the earth beneath our feet, our connection with the earth, the light falling on the soil and the light entering our being. The earth is going through constant change, so are we. The fallen dry leaves were once green leaves on trees. The roads being built will have shiny surfaces, the layers beneath will have stories, and we will move on. |
Artist Talk and Interview
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Drawing & Dreaming
Beatriz Acevedo Online Workshops - Friday, Saturday & Sunday 10am UK 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. |
Instructions: Drawing+Dreaming Beatriz will be guiding us in these three-day intensive dreaming and drawing workshops aiming at connecting with our dreams and exploring this oracle of the night. During these sessions, participants are invited to share their dreams and improve their sleeping practices. If you want to participate, these are the instructions: 1. Write down the intention you want to get in connection with your dreams. 2. Try to go to bed at a good time, do not bring your mobile to the room, and avoid caffeine three hours before your sleeping time. 3. In the morning. Free-flow writing of your dream. Do not worry about a narrative, whatever you can get from the dream is fine: an image, a feeling, a little scene. Then draw the dream. Again, there is no need to be precious about this, the rougher the drawing the better, pay attention to the visual clues and archetypes. If you want, think about the following elements. Settings: what is the atmosphere, morning, evening, geography, place? Feelings: What were your feelings in the dream (e.g. elation, frustration, fear, pride). Visual clues: What are the visuals, colors, animals, icons? Archetypes: What are the common themes of your dreams (e.g. a house, a car, movement, being prosecuted, horses, water). Beatriz Acevedo Artist and Educator http://beatrizacevedoart.wordpress.com/ |
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Gone with the Wind
Angela Hodgson Teall Workshops about (mainly) mammals from across the world, especially those with attitude! I’m interested in creatures and places that are important to us because of threats such as climate change, conflicts and so on. Beauty and communications between animals will also be explored. |
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The Joy of Autobiographical Comics - Desmond at 6 yrs old
Michelle Darlington Online workshop In this workshop I will talk about my own comic 'Desmond', the process behind it, and how it helps me digest and make sense of the world and things that happen in it. I will also show examples of comics which have been made by workshop participants, for the purpose of exploring social problems and enabling multi-stakeholder groups to find common ground in order to tackle them collaboratively. I will then walk you through a simple and easy group process I have devised, which allows people of any ability level to create a simple comic that can spark human connections. This will be a process you can use with groups of adults or children. This workshop builds on and updates the online workshops I delivered at TTD 2021 & 2023 |
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Drawing Conversations
The FLOW Finland group will share their drawings and findings from 2024 FLOW residency. This stems from the ongoing Drawing Conversations collaboration between artists Brew and Fält.
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Alarm Call
Angie Brew will introduce her project ALL THE BIRDS and share images from her 2024 show at The Living Room Gallery, NYC. She is in the process of drawing all the bird species in the world, as part of an environmental campaign to fight air pollution and climate change.
Angie Brew will introduce her project ALL THE BIRDS and share images from her 2024 show at The Living Room Gallery, NYC. She is in the process of drawing all the bird species in the world, as part of an environmental campaign to fight air pollution and climate change.
DRAWING TOGETHER Collaborative drawing during the symposium
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 and birds in the branches and root systems.
MinDraw
Online collaboration
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
We will continue to 'grow' the never-ending drawing of a mother tree and her surrounding forest of tree drawings, with drawing spirits and birds in the branches and root systems.
MinDraw
Online collaboration
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
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
During the weekend we host live panels with the workshop leaders and presenters, to further explore their work, common themes and methods. We invite guest artists to join us, who work in the same field.
Several international artists are joining us - it promises to be exciting! More info to follow.
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BIOGRAPHIES |
The TtD Drawing Board Directors:
Drs Brew, Fava & Kantrowitz, collectively known as 123 Draw, are the founders of Thinking through Drawing. In 2018 123 Draw became 123456 Draw when artist educators Emily Sheehan, Emma Fält and Beatriz Acevedo joined the board.
Together they run the TtD Symposium series, professional development courses, workshops, gallery shows and drawing residencies around the world.
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.
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 and educator, is the Director of the Art Education Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has lectured and led workshops on art and cognition internationally, and has twice served as a Singapore Ministry of Education Outstanding Educator in Residence. As a director of the Thinking through Drawing Project, founded during her doctoral studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, she co-organized 10 years of international drawing and cognition research symposia and workshops, in collaboration with colleagues from around the world. Before coming to Columbia University Teachers College as a doctoral student, she was a teaching artist in the New York City public schools for many years, involved in multiple local and national research projects. As a teaching artist with the Studio in a School organization, she co-developed and implemented an integrated art, math, and literacy curriculum for a federally funded Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) project. This project included a randomized control trial that demonstrated the impact of an integrated art curriculum for students growing up in poverty. She holds a BA in Art and Cognition from Harvard University and an MFA in Painting from Yale. She has taught foundation drawing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and graduate courses in contemporary art at the College of New Rochelle. Prior to her work in K-12 education, she was the visual art foundation coordinator at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and are in many private collections. She has curated multiple exhibitions on themes of drawing, cognition, and the creative work of artist/educators. She is an artist member of The Painting Center in New York City, and her artwork is also represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art. She lives, hikes, draws, and paints in the Hudson Valley, NY.
Andrea at Academia.edu
Emily Sheehan BIO:
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. Emily has holds the position of Associate 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. Emily serves on the board of directors of the Thinking Through Drawing International, Interdisciplinary drawing research and education network. Emily’s Drawings have been exhibited across the country in solo, juried and group exhibitions. 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
Drs Brew, Fava & Kantrowitz, collectively known as 123 Draw, are the founders of Thinking through Drawing. In 2018 123 Draw became 123456 Draw when artist educators Emily Sheehan, Emma Fält and Beatriz Acevedo joined the board.
Together they run the TtD Symposium series, professional development courses, workshops, gallery shows and drawing residencies around the world.
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.
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 and educator, is the Director of the Art Education Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has lectured and led workshops on art and cognition internationally, and has twice served as a Singapore Ministry of Education Outstanding Educator in Residence. As a director of the Thinking through Drawing Project, founded during her doctoral studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, she co-organized 10 years of international drawing and cognition research symposia and workshops, in collaboration with colleagues from around the world. Before coming to Columbia University Teachers College as a doctoral student, she was a teaching artist in the New York City public schools for many years, involved in multiple local and national research projects. As a teaching artist with the Studio in a School organization, she co-developed and implemented an integrated art, math, and literacy curriculum for a federally funded Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) project. This project included a randomized control trial that demonstrated the impact of an integrated art curriculum for students growing up in poverty. She holds a BA in Art and Cognition from Harvard University and an MFA in Painting from Yale. She has taught foundation drawing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and graduate courses in contemporary art at the College of New Rochelle. Prior to her work in K-12 education, she was the visual art foundation coordinator at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and are in many private collections. She has curated multiple exhibitions on themes of drawing, cognition, and the creative work of artist/educators. She is an artist member of The Painting Center in New York City, and her artwork is also represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art. She lives, hikes, draws, and paints in the Hudson Valley, NY.
Andrea at Academia.edu
Emily Sheehan BIO:
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. Emily has holds the position of Associate 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. Emily serves on the board of directors of the Thinking Through Drawing International, Interdisciplinary drawing research and education network. Emily’s Drawings have been exhibited across the country in solo, juried and group exhibitions. 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
2024 contributors - more bios to follow shortly
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 Premio Ambient Performance Series, PAC / edge Performance Festival, Chicago.
www.beatrizalbuquerque.com
#beatrizalbuquerqueart
@beatrizalbuquerqueart
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 Premio Ambient Performance Series, PAC / edge Performance Festival, Chicago.
www.beatrizalbuquerque.com
#beatrizalbuquerqueart
@beatrizalbuquerqueart
Sarita Chouhan is a visual artist and her multi-disciplinary practice is primarily drawing based using thread work, drawing, painting, photography, videos, installations and collaborations. Her meticulously drawn abstractions reflect the inner fabric of resilience, pain, suffering, of hope and faith. With shadows inside that we need to constantly work with, making vulnerability not our weakness but our strength, these landscapes of lines, dots and dashes, like a weaving of a fabric symbolize continuity and infiniteness, the perseverance and beauty pulsating with energy. Her abstract aesthetic contemplates on connection between mind, body and spirit, looking at various emotions and patterns inside and simultaneously in nature.
Sarita has exhibited her works in solos and group shows and participated in artist residencies.
Sarita Chouhan lives and works in Mumbai.
https://www.Instagram.com/saritarchouhan
http://sarichouhan.blogspot.com/
Sarita has exhibited her works in solos and group shows and participated in artist residencies.
Sarita Chouhan lives and works in Mumbai.
https://www.Instagram.com/saritarchouhan
http://sarichouhan.blogspot.com/
Laura Fox
Laura Fox makes work using drawing, printmaking and photography to ‘map’ the experience of collaboration, when facilitating creative outdoor learning sessions with schools and community groups.
Lives and works in London.
MA in Art Education UCL, London
Certificate in Counselling using the Arts IATE, London
www.laurafoxartist.com
@laurafoxartist
Laura Fox makes work using drawing, printmaking and photography to ‘map’ the experience of collaboration, when facilitating creative outdoor learning sessions with schools and community groups.
Lives and works in London.
MA in Art Education UCL, London
Certificate in Counselling using the Arts IATE, London
www.laurafoxartist.com
@laurafoxartist
David Griffin
Born in Kingston Jamaica, my art and scholarship has focused on music notations and geometric drawing, which allow users to construct bridges, draw fire, and sing without making any sound. I am currently Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Art, and Chair of OCADU’s Research Ethics Board. I hold a Ph.D. from the Glasgow School of Art, an MFA from The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. This coming fall 2024 my book “Drawing Music, Marking Time” will be published with Bloomsbury Press UK. [website: www.davidgriffinart.com; IG: https://www.instagram.com/dr.d.griffin/; other work: http://www.projectanywhere.net/ut-pictura-poesis-drawing-into-space-david-griffin/ ]
Born in Kingston Jamaica, my art and scholarship has focused on music notations and geometric drawing, which allow users to construct bridges, draw fire, and sing without making any sound. I am currently Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Art, and Chair of OCADU’s Research Ethics Board. I hold a Ph.D. from the Glasgow School of Art, an MFA from The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. This coming fall 2024 my book “Drawing Music, Marking Time” will be published with Bloomsbury Press UK. [website: www.davidgriffinart.com; IG: https://www.instagram.com/dr.d.griffin/; other work: http://www.projectanywhere.net/ut-pictura-poesis-drawing-into-space-david-griffin/ ]
Angela Hodgson-Teall is a socially engaged artist who sometimes needs others to help her draw and make tiny sculptures. Her research degree from University of the Arts London Drawing on the Nature of Empathy was a collaboration with staff at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Greenwich where she was concurrently a Consultant Microbiologist until 2013. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her current research focuses on mammals, including us (and our environments).
Her UK galleries include: Anna Lovely Gallery, Sydenham, London https://annalovely.gallery/
and Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall http://www.morvah.com/
Her bronze sundial is at the Horniman Museum and Gallery gardens between the Totem pole and the bees https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/ARC/HMG/PR/002/1997/001
Website: www.angelahodgsonteall.co.uk
Her UK galleries include: Anna Lovely Gallery, Sydenham, London https://annalovely.gallery/
and Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall http://www.morvah.com/
Her bronze sundial is at the Horniman Museum and Gallery gardens between the Totem pole and the bees https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/ARC/HMG/PR/002/1997/001
Website: www.angelahodgsonteall.co.uk
Ferwa Ibrahim is a Pakistani drawing and new media artist, currently working as an Assistant Professor at American University of Emirates, Dubai, UAE. She has been reading into the language of her own body, that she developed as a south Asian Muslim woman. Her work explores how cultural and religious ritualistic practices affect one’s body language, mark making and drawing.She has an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and has been teaching Art in UAE, Pakistan and the USA since the past 10 years.
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Mehr Javed
My practice as a whole looks into exploratory drawing as a means to engage a slow, contemplative viewing. Most of my drawings investigate the generative capacity of geometric motifs as metaphors for the Infinitesimal and the Infinite as explored through techniques of repetition, tessellation and seriality. The resulting over-all surfaces, or Patternscapes, as I call them, are repositories of time that capture the tipping point between coherence and chaos.
The immersive quality of these drawings/paintings aims to slows down the viewing experience, making it meditative and sensual. In an intimate viewing such as this, the eyes begin to act as organs of touch.
My practice as a whole looks into exploratory drawing as a means to engage a slow, contemplative viewing. Most of my drawings investigate the generative capacity of geometric motifs as metaphors for the Infinitesimal and the Infinite as explored through techniques of repetition, tessellation and seriality. The resulting over-all surfaces, or Patternscapes, as I call them, are repositories of time that capture the tipping point between coherence and chaos.
The immersive quality of these drawings/paintings aims to slows down the viewing experience, making it meditative and sensual. In an intimate viewing such as this, the eyes begin to act as organs of touch.
Anthi Kosma
Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, PhD, DEA ETSA de Madrid
Anthi Kosma studied architecture (DUTH, 2005) with a DEA-PhD and research related with drawing as exploratory action (School of Architecture of Madrid - UPM, 2014). She is currently giving classes as an external professor at the school of architecture in NTUA and UTH.
https://imprografika.wordpress.com
https://instagram.com/anthoskosmos
Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, PhD, DEA ETSA de Madrid
Anthi Kosma studied architecture (DUTH, 2005) with a DEA-PhD and research related with drawing as exploratory action (School of Architecture of Madrid - UPM, 2014). She is currently giving classes as an external professor at the school of architecture in NTUA and UTH.
https://imprografika.wordpress.com
https://instagram.com/anthoskosmos
Jenny Purrett
Jenny Purrett’s practice is building connectedness through drawing and making by choreographing encounters, either alone or with others. She established DRAW workshops at her studio in Northumberland in 2021.
BA Fine Art, Birmingham Polytechnic (1994)
PGCE, Moray House Institute, Edinburgh (1998)
MFA, Bath Spa University (2009)
www.jennypurrett.co.uk
@draw_jennypurrett
Jenny Purrett’s practice is building connectedness through drawing and making by choreographing encounters, either alone or with others. She established DRAW workshops at her studio in Northumberland in 2021.
BA Fine Art, Birmingham Polytechnic (1994)
PGCE, Moray House Institute, Edinburgh (1998)
MFA, Bath Spa University (2009)
www.jennypurrett.co.uk
@draw_jennypurrett
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