NYAB Event - "Drawing Out" Exhibition

"Drawing Out" Exhibition

The Drawing Center

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The Drawing Center presents Drawing Out, an exhibition of student artwork from The Drawing Center's program that places teaching artists in downtown public schools.

Drawing Connections pairs practicing artists with teachers in Lower Manhattan public schools to develop projects that relate classroom curricula to current exhibitions at The Drawing Center. Students experience hands-on museum visits as well as in-school sessions with the teaching artists. Drawing Out will feature cross-disciplinary group projects by 100 students from four participating schools: P.S. 42 Benjamin Altman School, P.S. 130 Hernando Desoto School, H.S. 560 City-As-School High School, and Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School. Through the Drawing Connections program, third graders at P.S. 42 worked with teaching artist Jennifer Cecere to explore Matt Mullican's exhibition A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking. Contemplating
Mullican’s use of line in his text drawings made while under hypnosis and the use of symbols in his selfcreated cosmology, the students reinterpreted selected Native American texts into their own drawings.
P.S. 130 second graders worked with artist Elizabeth Hamby, also using Matt Mullican’s exhibition as inspiration for their project. The students explored the principles of geometry and the role of perspective, repetition , composition, and scale in importing meaning. Considering Mullican’s signs and symbols, the students created posters illustrating their own system of symbols and meaning.
Ninth graders at Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School and artist Jeffrey Gibson engaged in a round table discussion exploring the topic of invisibility as it relates to their own lived experience. Students combined self-reflective writing with the ideas and various processes employed by the nineemerging artists in Apparently Invisible: Selections Spring 2009 to make drawings and collages. City-As-School eleventh- and twelfth-grade students
created drawings inspired by Sun Xun’s meditations on transience and the passage of time. Taking Xun’s films Shock of Time and Lie of the Magician as a starting point, the students considered the role of propaganda and the historical contrast of Western (U.S.) and
Eastern (Chinese) cultures to make drawings and texts. These drawings and writings were transferred onto a live model and filmed to create a 60-frame short film.

Media

• Drawing

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