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Sep 18, 2021, 1 PM

ASL DrawNow! Online! Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête

Huguette Caland, *1er Dessin encre de Chine, hiver* (First drawing, Chinese ink, winter), 1971. Ink on paper. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (31.7 x 24.1 cm). Private Collection.

Join us for an online participatory drawing workshop in American Sign Language (ASL), presented in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition Huguette Caland: Téte-à-Tête. Throughout the works on view in Tête-à-Tête, artist Huguette Caland conveys the vitality of the human body and spirit with her fluid and candid use of the medium of drawing.

In this workshop, instructors Ellen Mansfield and Nic Annette Miller will use figure drawing and marking lines as a way to explore our own bodies and our relationships with the people around us.

Please note this workshop will be in ASL with no voice interpretation. It is free and open to the signing community.

Materials
- Paper, pencil, color pencils (optional).
Tips for a Successful Zoom Session
- Log in 5-10 minutes before the workshop begins to avoid any technical delays.
- Use a desktop or laptop for the best image quality. A tablet will also do, but on a smartphone, the image may be too small.
- Make sure you have a stable wifi connection before the workshop begins
Documentation

The Drawing Center tries to share its programs as widely as possible, which means recording our programming and making it available online. By attending the event, you consent to audio recording and video recording and its/their release, publication, or exhibition.

Huguette Caland

Huguette Caland was the only daughter of the first president of the Republic of Lebanon, Bechara el Khoury. She began painting at the age of 16 under the private tutelage of Fernando Manetti, an Italian artist who resided in Lebanon. At the age of 20, she married Paul Caland, the nephew of the publisher of a pro-French daily Le Jour.

By 1964, she had lost both her parents, and shortly after her father’s death, Caland created her seminal painting, Red Sun. Later that year, she enrolled in the fine arts program at the American University of Beirut where she studied painting and drawing. In 1970, she moved to Paris and it was there that she began to explore themes of sexuality and desire in her work. This includes her series Bribes de Corps or “body bits,” in which isolated and interlocking body parts resemble landscapes. In 1979, she was commissioned by the fashion house of Pierre Cardin to create a line of high-fashion caftans. In 1987, Caland settled in Venice, California, where she built the home and studio of her dreams. The artist lived between there and Beirut until her recent death at the age of 88 in September 2019.
Ellen Mansfield

Born Deaf in Manhattan, NY, Ellen Mansfield survived years in her youth without access to sign language which sparks the foundation of her artwork and activism for Deaf culture and Sign Language. She earned a BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and has since started TileStroke Studio in Fredrick, MD.
Nic Annette Miller

Nic Annette Miller is an artist and designer focusing on environmental and cultural relationships through printmaking and public installations. Nic is a heritage signer Coda (Child of a Deaf Adult) and grew up multilingual bimodal in spoken English, home Vietnamese/Pidgin Sign English (PSE) and American Sign Language (ASL). She received her BFA in Graphic Design and Printmaking from Utah State University and is a graduate of the Compass Interpreting Program.

Credits

Education and Community Programs at The Drawing Center are made possible by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Support for this program is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the CreateNYC Language Access Fund.

Materials

Tips for a Successful Zoom Session

Documentation

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