Free online programs are made possible by the Cy Twombly Foundation.
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.
Additional support is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.
In Conversation: Viewing Program 20/21 Artists Akum Maduka, Sahand Heshmati and Sophie Grant
Join Viewing Program 20/21 artists Akum Maduka, Sahand Heshmati and Sophie Grant, for presentations on their drawing practices, which explore themes including ethnic profiling in the United States, the body in relation to landscape, and cultural and religious stigmas in Nigeria. The artists’ presentations are followed by a roundtable discussion on topics as wide ranging as female sexuality and expressions of pleasure and trauma, politicized ethnography, national identity, and perception of place. The discussion was moderated by our Artist-in-Residence, Lisa Sigal.
Viewing Program 20/21 is a new initiative that builds upon The Drawing Center’s long standing support of contemporary artists. The program offers sixty participating artists mentorship in the form of virtual studio visits by The Drawing Center’s Artist in Residence and portfolio reviews by The Drawing Center’s curatorial team.
This program was recorded via zoom on July 28, 2021.