Drawing as a Contemporary Practice
10 Week Class ONLINE | This course is completed
This 10 week ONLINE course is designed to give students a better idea of the wide spectrum of the possibilities of contemporary drawing - what are artists doing with drawing today? Projects are geared towards expanding students’ notions of drawing, both technically and conceptually. Traditional and technique-driven approaches will be de-emphasized in order to find other sources for making works that are more self-directed. Using ink as a primary medium, there will be assignments to create drawing from a photograph, and layered images using transparencies. We will also engage in experiments with seriality and paper manipulation. Slide presentations and discussions will show students how other artists use drawing in challenging formats.
Tuition: $420 + Material Fee: $10, total: $430
- What you will learn:
- Utilizing ink material techniques in contemporary drawing
- Interpreting project parameters to explore personal drawing interests
- Exploring themes and issues prevalent in contemporary drawing, and contemporary artists
- Learning to evaluate one’s own work through group critiques and finding one’s own voice in the field of contemporary drawing
Kyla Brown
Kyla is a Toronto based artist, educator and writer, pedestrian and mother. She/they work in a project driven practice that includes the labour of care work, community based projects, subtle public interventions, drawing-installation and video work. Exploring the everyday, material practices and mapping, Brown’s drawings look at routines, and notions of place.
She has shown at the Khyber Centre for the Arts and the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Art Mur in Montreal, XEXE Gallery and Hang Man Gallery in Toronto, as well as DNA Artspace, ArtLab Gallery, and with McIntosh Gallery's community residency in London, ON. She earned a BFA from NSCAD University, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. She has taught adult and youth courses at the University of Western Ontario, Sheridan College, Art City of Toronto, the AGO, and the Toronto School of Art.