The Big Draw 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
The Big Draw at Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center
Join us on Saturday, October 15 from 11am–4pm for The Big Draw – a celebration of drawing inspired by the wildly popular United Kingdom program of the same name. Now in its sixth year in New York, The Big Draw invites audiences of all ages to join in a free day of drawing to express their creativity! Artist Maria Hupfield will lead activities as the Thunderbird Native American Dancers, led by Louis Mofsie, perform a variety of traditional dances. Music by the Heyna Second Son Singers.
Explore how sound and movement can be captured through mark, gesture, and imagery – no experience necessary!
Location:
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, One Bowling Green
DrawNow!
Join The Drawing Center on Sunday, October 9 at 12pm for DrawNow! at the TKTS Booth in Times Square. Presented in association with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month New York City, October 2011, artists Daniel Arsham and Benjamin Porto will lead the public in spontaneous drawing activities that connect participants to their built environment through mark-making.
Using snap line, a chalk-covered string used in building construction, artists will engage the public to create a web of chalk marks extending out from the TKTS Booth. Additionally, participants will receive a set of written directives that will encourage them to draw their surroundings on their own and see Times Square in a new way!
Free and open to all ages – no experience necessary!.
Presented in association with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month New York City, October 2011. www.archtober.org
Location:
TKTS Booth, Times Square
The Big Draw at Wave Hill
Join us on Saturday, May 14 from 11am–4pm for a day of artist-led drawing activities for all ages. Artist Franklin Evans will lead a site-specific project on the grounds at Wave Hill in the Bronx, encouraging participants to connect to nature and the landscape.
In the Herbert & Hyonja Abrons Woodland behind Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery, participants will discover Evans’ Tapeandtrees, a collective activity that highlights different species of trees – Hemlock, White Pine, and Kentucky Yellowwood – to create drawings in space. Using colored artist tape, Evans will group together three clusters of trees, each a unique species, located along the Woodland’s main footpath. A workstation at each cluster will provide source materials about each species, pointing to various literary, art historical, industrial, and biological texts and images that refer to these species. After making drawings on their own pieces of tape, visitors will add them to a continuously growing web of drawings on tape stretching throughout the trees.
Wave Hill is located in the Bronx at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue. Just 30 minutes from midtown Manhattan, Wave Hill’s free shuttle van provides free transportation to and from its front gate and Metro-North’s Riverdale station, and the 242nd Street stop on the #1 subway line. Limited on-site parking is available for $8 per vehicle. Free off-site parking nearby with continuous, complimentary shuttle service to and from the front gate. Complete directions and shuttle bus schedule at www.wavehill.org.
Location:
Wave Hill, The Bronx
DrawNow!
DrawNow! at the StreetFest features artist-led projects by Jean Philippe Delhomme, Aida Miron and Uri Wegman, Sydney Skybetter, and Tae Won Yu. Part of The Big Draw – a celebration of drawing inspired by the wildly popular United Kingdom program of the same name – DrawNow! takes drawing to the streets in a series of spontaneous happenings. As a founding partner of The Festival of Ideas for the New City (May 4–8, 2011), The Drawing Center presents four new DrawNow! projects in conjunction with the Festival’s one-day StreetFest on Saturday, May 7 from 11am–7pm.
Audiences of all ages are encouraged to come together and experience drawing in new ways – no experience necessary!
Location:
The Bowery, Downtown Manhattan
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