The Drawing Center Announces WINTER TERM

Winter Term is a new annual initiative in which the museum partners 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 opened on February 24 and is on view through March 11, 2018, The Drawing Center invited artist Torkwase Dyson to present recent work in an exhibition and to 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 has been presenting 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.

Drawings and sculptures by Dyson are on view throughout the program's run and Dyson has been present during select "office hours" to discuss her work and the school with the public. Organized by Claire Gilman, Chief Curator.

Torkwase Dyson in the process of making large-scale, handmade paper (with Anne McKeow) while in residence at the Brodsky Center, Rutgers. Courtesy of Paola Morsiani.

Winter Term 2018: Torkwase Dyson and the Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice is made possible by Lisa Silver and Jean-Christophe Castelli, and Isabel Stainow Wilcox.

The Drawing Center, a museum in Manhattan's SoHo district, explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art and creative thought. Its activities, which are both multidisciplinary and broadly historical, include exhibitions; Open Sessions, a curated artist program encouraging community and collaboration; the Drawing Papers publication series; and education and public programs.

Location: 35 Wooster Street (btwn Broome and Grand St) in SoHo, New York. Hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 12pm-6pm; Thursday: 12pm-8pm. Tickets: Adults: $5; Students & Seniors: $3; Children under 12: Free. Thursdays 6-8pm free admission for all visitors.