The Drawing Center Announces New Winter Term 2018

Winter Term explores drawing's transformative role in civic society and the global world with a two-week series of classes, discussions, and formal experiments.

• February 24 | Conversation between Torkwase Dyson and Christina Sharpe

• March 1 | Panel with Ekene Ijeoma, Ron Morrison, and Mabel O. Wilson. Moderated by Rujeko Hockley

• February 27, March 2, and March 7 | Classes 1, 2, & 3
  See below for application details and link

Click here for the full program of talks and classes.

The Drawing Center is pleased to announce Winter Term, a new annual initiative in which the museum will partner with an artist or organization whose mission it is to explore the transformative role that drawing can play in civic and global society.

For the first session, which will take place from February 24 through March 11, 2018, The Drawing Center has invited artist Torkwase Dyson to create an installation and organize a two-week series of classes, discussions, and formal experiments developed from her incipient project the Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice-named for Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter and American Civil Rights leader Ida B. Wells. The School will present an experimental curriculum employing techniques culled from the visual arts as well as design theories of geography, infrastructure, engineering, and architecture to initiate dialogue about geography and spatiality in an era of global crisis due to human-induced climate change. Participation in each class is by application only (the afternoon session will be open to observation by the public). Drawings and sculptures by Dyson will be on view throughout the program's run and Dyson will be present during select "office hours" to discuss her work and the school with the public.

During an open studio-style installation, Dyson will explicate her own formal concept of "Black Compositional Thought" while terms such as improvisation, nomadicity, and re-orientation will be applied to techniques within abstract drawing that confront issues of environmental justice and the path towards a more equitable future. Confirmed invited guests include curator Rujeko Hockley; artist and designer Ekene Ijeoma; interdisciplinary designer, artist, and researcher Ron Morrison; professor and author Christina Sharpe; and architect and author Mabel O. Wilson. In addition, artist Andres Luis Hernandez will create a drawing score to which artist Zachary Fabri will respond in movement. The result of their collaboration will be documented in drawings and photography. Organized by Claire Gilman, Chief Curator.

The full program of talks and classes is here .
APPLICATION FOR CLASSES

Participation in the morning sessions of each class is by application only. Class capacity is 20. The afternoon sessions are open to observation by the public. Applications are open through Friday, January 19. Course participants will be announced on Monday, February 12.

Application requirements:

1. Select a class

2. Hobbies

3. Why do you want to participate? (max. 300 words)

4. What is a question you have about the environment and its role in your life? (max. 300 words)

5. Voluntary image upload (book/song/video/recipe)

Please use submittable for your application here by Friday, January 19.