The Big Draw: Middletown
DRAWING WORKSHOPS AND ACTIVITIES
Saturday, April 25, 2015, 1–4pm
Drop by and participate in different activities throughout the afternoon, anytime between 1pm and 4pm.
Onsite registration:
7. Face Painting
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University,
301 High Street (See #10 «on map)
Participants will design drawings that will then be painted onto their
faces by Wesleyan art students.
Drawing the nude model.
(Parental permission required for those under 18.)
Location: Drawing Studio (Center for the Arts Art Workshops
room 105) (See #4 on map)
2. Still-Life and the Natural World
Study the natural world with an exciting array of objects including
shells, taxidermied animals, skulls, etc. in an elaborate still life.
Location: Beckham Hall, upstairs at Fayerweather (See #16 on map)
3. Movement and Drawing
Participants will create drawings through exercises that use making
marks through movement as the subject matter with live music
accompaniment. Try using your arm as a compass, or creating lines
by walking and dragging charcoal behind you. Good for all ages. Get
ready to be experimental!
Location: Big Draw Tent, Center For the Arts Green
(See #9 on map)
4. ‘Sumi-e’ Ink Drawing
Introduction to Japanese traditional sumi-e drawing with ink. Taught
by Keiji Shinohara.
Location: Beckham Hall, upstairs at Fayerweather. Limited to 18
participants at a time. (See #16 on map)
5. Fragments from the Davison Art Center
Make your own masterpiece inspired by the Davison Art Center
collection. Paper will be distributed with a fragment of an image
sampled from a DAC print—then you “fill in the print” with drawing.
Location: Davison Art Center Courtyard Rain site: Alsop House rooms
(See #10 on map)
6. Telling Drawn Stories
Location: Beckham Hall, upstairs at Fayerweather (See #16 on map)
ALSO SEE EXHIBITIONS:
Davison Art Center Gallery: Personal Recollections:
Gifts from Robert Dannin & Jolie Stahl (See #10 on map)
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery: Closed for installation.
(See #3 on map)
Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Gallery:
A Body in Fukushima (See #1 on map).
Usdan University Center, main floor (opposite box office):
View the creativity from today’s Big Draw in an evolving display.
(See #15 on map).
Organized by the Friends of the Davison Art Center. To find out
more about the FDAC visit the Davison Art Center website at
http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac or call 860-685-2500.
Sponsored by the Middletown
Commission on the Arts
Wesleyan University Division of Arts
and Humanities and Department of
Art & Art History
Platinum Sponsors ($500)
Middletown Art Academy
Nobul Apparel
Gold Sponsors ($250)
Community Health Center
Silver Sponsors ($100)
It’s Only Natural Market
Middletown Framing
Northeast Collaborative Architects
Kidcity Children’s Museum
Season’s Federal Credit Union
Ursel’s Web
Try your hand at comics, illustration, zines, and the art of telling
stories in sequence.
Location: Beckham Hall, upstairs at Fayerweather (See #16 on map)
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Mansfield Freeman Center
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CFA Hall
17 Memorial Chapel
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CFA Green
18 Zelnick Pavilion
Goldsmith Family Cinema
Center for Film Studies
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Ezra and Cecile
Zilkha Gallery
10 Davison Art Center (DAC)
«Big Draw Onsite Registration
11 Music Studios
12 World Music Hall
13 Crowell Concert Hall
14 Rehearsal Hall
Daltry Room (Rehearsal Hall 003)
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Theater and Dance Studios
East Room
Edmond Jones Room
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CFA Theater
15 Usdan University Center
University Box Office
Dining
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The Russell House
16 Fayerweather Beckham Hall
M ID D LET OWN
4 Art Workshop
Drawing Studio
Printshop
19 Patricelli ’92 Theater