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Drawing 1o1

Type: Residencies, Workshops, Exchanges [View all]
Posted by: Arts Letters & Numbers
Deadline: Sun, June 1st, 2025

Where: Arts Letters & Numbers Campus (1543 Burden Lake Road, Averill Park, Rensselaer County , NY 12018, United States)

When: July 5 - 26 , 2025

About Program: 

Drawing 101 will be taught by David Gersten, Founding Director of Arts Letters and Numbers and longtime Professor of Architecture at the Cooper Union. The class will begin with the basics of drafting and the fundamental relationships between the paper, parallel edge, triangles, pencil, scale and eraser. Working with a series of specific questions the participants will explore the rhythm tempo and spaces of drawing, learning to play these ‘instruments of drawing’ as a musician plays their instruments. We will explore the choreography of drawing and the relationships between what a drawing ‘is’ and is ‘of’, making drawings not to ‘show’ something but to ‘see’ something. The class will lead to increasingly large and complex drawings that allow people to ‘inhabit’ the space of their drawings.

 

About Program Director:  

David Gersten is an internationally recognized artist, architect, writer, and educator based in New York City. He is Distinguished Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Learning at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, where he has taught since 1991 and has served as Associate Dean under Dean John Hejduk and Acting Dean of the School. Gersten is the Founding Director and President of Arts Letters & Numbers, a non-profit arts and education organization dedicated to expanding the experiences understood as education through creating new structures and spaces for creative exchange across a wide range of disciplines and ways of knowing, including: Architecture, Design, Fine Arts, Theater Arts, Film, Music, Crafts, Trades, the Humanities, the Sciences and Social Sciences.. He works in collaboration with international organizations, educational and cultural institutions, and education policy groups including UNICEF, the United Nations Academic Impact Division, Big Picture Learning and Education Reimagined He recently presented a keynote address entitled “Unlocking the Creativity of Youth” at the UNICEF–EXPO and at the Chancellors Summit at CAFA in Beijing. Gersten recently was an official exhibitor, in the CITYX Venice Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, where he directed and curated Arts Letters & Numbers exhibition titled: “SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible,” He is a member of the Board of Directors of Big Picture Learning.

 

Link: https://www.artslettersandnumbers.com/craft-1o1-2025

Posted on Tue, April 22nd, 2025
Expires on Sun, June 1st, 2025

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