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Drawing Out: A joint exhibition of student drawings

June 3 – 18, 2005

The Drawing Center's Drawing Out program provided neighboring public schools with a museum visit and in-school art-making sessions with teaching artists, culminating in Drawing Out, an exhibition of student artwork. The 3rd grade class from P.S. 42 Benjamin Altman School explored connections between The Drawing Center's exhibition, Richard Tuttle: It's a Room for 3 People, and its Social Studies curriculum on the Pueblo, Seminole, Ojibwa, and Iroquois tribes. The students worked in groups, each creating a pattern inspired by a Richard Tuttle wall drawing and Native American textile, jewelry, and housing designs. Each group completed its project by creating a large patchwork drawing from the repeated pattern.

Students from the 10th grade English class of a City-As-School high school created a project linking The Drawing Center's exhibition, 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin, with the students' writing curriculum on personal and societal freedoms. Using collage, calligraphic ink, slide painting, and scratching techniques, the students created a slide show that combined their drawings and personal writings.

The project by the 2nd grade class of P.S. 130M also incorporated 3 x Abstraction, but with the study of geometry and New York architecture. Utilizing graph paper in the manner of Emma Kunz, four student groups designed abstract futuristic cityscapes and then turned them into three-dimensional sculptures.

The 10th grade English class of Soho Communications Art Academy was inspired by The Drawing Center's publications, especially Drawing Papers 49: Richard Tuttle: Manifesto, and interwove student poetry and drawings to explore topics such as racism and urban life.

Featured Artists

  • Shoshana Dentz
  • Mark Licari
  • Zoe Keramea

    Zoe Keramea explores enfolded surfaces using sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and ceramics. Keramea was born in Athens, Greece in 1955 and graduated from the Universitaet der Kuenste in Berlin in 1981. In 1989 she was awarded a Fulbright Grant for independent research in printmaking in New York. Keramea has shown her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 18th Biennale of Sydney : all our relations in 2012, at the Museum of Modern Art NY, Artists’ Alphabets 2012, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Contemporary Drawings 2009, the Benaki Museum, Athens and MUDAM Musee d’Art Moderne, LuxembourgRRRIPP!! Paper Fashion, 2007 – 2008, the traveling exhibition FAX, organized by The Drawing Center and iCI - Independent Curators International, 2009 -2013. She has had solo shows in Athens , Berlin and New York. In 2006 she created Ringknot – A Woven Line at South Street Seaport with the participation of the public, as part of The Big Draw New York presented by The Drawing Center and River to River Festival. The digital version of her Mandala Memorygame, an App for the iPhone and the iPad , is the expanded version of a game first published in Drawing Papers 54, Zoe Keramea: Geometry of Paradox. It was awarded a 3rd place prize in Best App Ever Awards 2010. She lives and works in Athens and New York.

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Draw On-Site Family Day was part of the Michael Iovenko School Programs, which invited young people to embark on a visual discovery process through discussion and art-making activities inspired by The Drawing Center's exhibitions. The Michael Iovenko School Programs were made possible through the generous support of the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. and the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Inc.

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