The Drawing Center's Education and Community Programs are made possible by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Major support is provided by the Evelyn Toll Family Foundation and the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation.
Camp DRAW-A-THON 2023
Camp DRAW-A-THON is a free summer intensive for rising 7th-9th and 10th-11th graders led by Teen Art Salon in partnership with The Drawing Center. Over a one-week period, young artists engaged in a dynamic daily drawing marathon to fill a sketchbook.
This program builds on Teen Art Salon's use of the sketchbook as a tool for experimentation, risk-taking, and reimagining. Throughout the week, participants looked at work in A Greater Beauty: The Drawings of Kahlil Gibran and Naudline Pierre: This Is Not All There Is and were given exercises to use the sketchbook as space to dream, prepare, rehearse, record, and realize artistic vision.
In a collaborative setting with guidance from instructors, artists deepened their conceptual and observational drawing skills, through exploring individual style, the search for inspiration, and spatial awareness on & across the page. The goal was for participants to further a generative routine drawing practice and to celebrate what they are uniquely motivated to sketch.
Week 1: Rising 7th-9th graders
Week 2: Rising 10th-11th graders
Drawing All-Stars is led by Teen Art Salon's Isabella Bustamante in partnership with The Drawing Center's Director of Education and Community Programs, Aimee Good.