Friday, September 25, 2009

After Sketching: Evening #4: Draw, Drew, Drawn



For the last night of Sketching in the Galleries at the DMA the group was kind of small so we drew from artwork in the All the World's a Stage exhibit, focusing on a selection of small works on paper, most of which are not put up for displayed very often.

We discussed local galleries like Public Trust, Dunn and Brown, Mighty Fine Arts and art magazines such as Art On Paper, Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose that focus on drawings and works on paper. Also places that offer figure drawing sessions and other museums that have drawing from the collection programs such as the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Sundays @ 11:30). The Nasher and the Crow Collection say they have drawing programs but those are never reliably listed, so no body know when to attend. The Meadows and the Irving Art Center are rumored to have programs, but I see nothing listed.

We also talked about next weeks program, the first Thursday Night Multi Media program held in the Center for Creative Connections. There was a lot of interest in this program, although nobody had any hard info on what was happening there next week. So I looked it up this morning.

The artist hosting the month of October will be Mitch Rogers, who among other creative things, has been fabricating body parts, bloody nubs and meaty bits for TV and movies for about 20 years. I assume he will be giving instructions on mold making, life casting and spurting buckets of blood. Just in time for Halloween! It sounds like it will be a lot of fun.

1 comment:

Jim Arnold said...

There was an evening (and Sunday) of Sketching in the Galleries at the Nasher the Third Thursday of October. Hopefully they will continue this program. It was facilitated by Lisa Neversova and was well attended.
We might need to start a self facilitated sketching group at the DMA one or two Thursdays a month.
Last Night (4th Thursday in Oct) was terribly boring for a number of his former sketching in the gallery addicts and we could be wandering around like fish out of water.