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Drawing Collaborative Workshop and Exhibition

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Posted by: The Crit Lab & MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
Deadline: Fri, November 1st, 2019

The Amber Tree - Drawing Rites Collaborative Drawing Workshop and Exhibition
The Crit Lab at MAPSpace
Port Chester, NY

Part I: Wednesday- Friday Nov 6-8, 10am-4pm
Led by Artist and researcher Angie Brew, PhD
Part II: Saturday Nov 9, 10am-4pm & Sunday Nov 10, 10-1
Led by Artist researchers Angie Brew, PhD, and Andrea Kantrowitz, EdD

Pop-up Exhibition, Reception & Panel Discussion
Sunday November 10, 2-4pm
with Brew, Kantrowitz, and director of MAPSpace Patricia Miranda
All drawings from the workshops included in the popup exhibition.
Reception/panel discussion is free and open to the public.

Part I: Contribute to the worldwide collaborative drawing The Amber Tree, a never-ending drawing to honour and commemorate those we have lost –humans, animals, trees. Participants contribute to a monumental tree drawing, installed in the gallery for the week, drawing new branches and images of loved ones they have lost. This 3-day workshop will utlize Angie Brew’s method of slow observational drawing developed during her PhD research on drawing pedagogy and cognition, called The Seeing Hand. Participants create observational and collaborative drawings both independently and together, and ‘grow’ the Amber Tree. Participants may bring a photo of a lost one, tell stories, and draw. Weather permitting, we will draw outside and in alternative venues.

Part II: Angie Brew and Dr. Andrea Kantrowitz, PhD will teach about their ‘Thinking through Drawing’ practices, and explore how drawing can help us understand and problem solve. The focus will be embodied drawing practices, and includes lecture, discussion, and drawing.

Cost:
Full program: Wednesday – Sunday: $400
Workshop: Wednesday – Friday: $250
Saturday – Sunday: $250

See www.thecritlab.com for more info.

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. 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 a new interdisciplinary research project called Drawlearn, exploring how drawing enables and enhances learning ’across the board’.

Andrea Kantrowitzis an artist, educator and researcher who uses cognitive psychology theories and methods to study the hidden dynamics of artists’ thinking processes. She is graduate program coordinator and assistant professor in Art Education at the State University of New York @ New Paltz. She is director of the Thinking through Drawing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, she organized a series of international drawing and cognition research symposia, in collaboration with colleagues from the U.K. She holds a B.A in Art and Cognition from Harvard University, MFA in Painting from Yale, and interdisciplinary doctorate at Teachers College examining the cognitive interactions underlying contemporary artists’ drawing practices.

Posted on Thu, October 3rd, 2019
Expires on Fri, November 1st, 2019

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