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Education

Drawing Workshops

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Drawing Workshops are an ongoing series of guided conversations and hands-on drawing activities for participants of all ages. These public programs, organized in conjunction with exhibitions on view, include multigenerational dialogues and collective art-making.

Drawing Workshops have expanded in scope to offer bilingual programs in Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and American Sign Language upon request. All online workshops are transcribed in English.

Drawing Connections: Michael Iovenko School Programs

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Through its Drawing Connections program, The Drawing Center partners annually with four neighboring Lower Manhattan public schools to provide students with an in-depth visual art experience focused on the medium of drawing. 

Incorporating guided tours of the Drawing Center’s exhibitions and six in-school sessions, Drawing Connections is led by a teaching artist who is paired with a classroom teacher for the duration of the program. Together, they develop a curriculum that connects topics covered in the classroom with those addressed in the artworks on view at The Drawing Center. 

Each summer, Drawing Connections culminates in Drawing Connections, an exhibition of the students’ artwork.

Drawing Connections is part of The Drawing Center’s Michael Iovenko School Programs.

Street Lab

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In its ongoing partnership with Street Lab, a New York City-based nonprofit that creates programming across the city’s public spaces, The Drawing Center collaborates to offer pop-up drawing workshops that bring our exhibitions and artists into neighborhood public spaces where people of all ages gather, share and learn through the magic and imagination of drawing.

Recent Drawing Workshops

Credits

Education and Community Programs at The Drawing Center are made possible by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. and Fiona and Eric Rudin. Major support is provided by the Evelyn Toll Family Foundation, the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation, and Hauser & Wirth. Additional support is provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.