The Drawing Center

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy's Teardrop Park

11:00AM - 1:00PM Self-Guided Drawing
1:00PM - 4:00PM Artist-Led Drawing

Discover the natural secrets of this beautifully designed park through outdoor drawing explorations with artists Larry Dobens and Valerie Hammond. Use your powers of observation to create winding scrolls of eye and flora drawings lining the pathways of the park.

Location:
Teardrop Park, between Warren and Murray streets, East of River Terrace, in Battery Park City

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

Draw the body in motion as artist Wayne Price (Tlingit) and the Northern Tide Dancers from Alaska present dances from their community in the Diker Pavilion at 12:00PM, 1:30PM, and 3:00PM. Tour “Listening to Our Ancestors” with artists Jeffrey Gibson (Cherokee/Choctaw) and Athena LaTocha (Lakota/Ojibwe) at 11:00AM, 1:00PM, and 3:30PM, then make balsa wood prints and feast bowls in the Rotunda, drawing inspiration and imagery from the exhibition.

Location:
George Gustav Heye Center, U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green, Across from Battery Park

South Street Seaport Museum

11:00AM - 4:00PM

Explore memory, space, and movement with artist Christian Nguyen and special guests. Taking a cue from the Asian calligraphy practice of writing with water, make your own water drawings on stone tablets arranged on the promenade alongside the Museum’s legendary sailing vessels. Celebrate the seaport’s rich history by creating trace drawings—layered sketches of the pier and its peopleusing historical references and direct observation.

Location:
South Street Seaport, Pier 16, Fulton and South Streets

World Financial Center Winter Garden & Plaza

11:00AM - 4:00PM

Draw in space with knitted, knotted, and crocheted lines in artist Sheila Pepe’s communal drawing project entitled Bus Lines. Lace together the buses parked on the plaza with rope, yarn, and shoelaces. Doodle and decorate your way on board, save your seat with a crocheted web, or wrap, tassel, and pom-pom at the Craft Stop. Additional participatory events in the Winter Garden include Knit-Ins on August 22, August 29, and September 5 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm where knitters and crocheters will create The Big Draw Scarf (The World’s Longest Line) and Craft Stops on September 6 and 7 at 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm and 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm where participants can learn to knit, crochet, tie knots, and make tassels and pom-poms.

Location:
Winter Garden and WFC Plaza, between Vesey and Liberty Streets, in Battery Park City

Graffiti Research Lab Special Evening Event

9:30PM -11:00PM

Try your hand at laser tagging with artist collective GRL’s Mobile Broadcast Unit: audio, projection, and LASER tag systems mounted on a tricycle! An entire building is your canvas for making giant drawings with light during this outdoor evening adventure. Originally commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as part of its “Off the Record” project.

Location:
Park at Old Slip between Water and Front Streets