Program
Open Call for Applications: Camp DRAW-A-THON 2024 with Teen Art Salon
June 14, 2024
Jolene Fernandez, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Teen Art Salon.
Accepting applications on a rolling basis through June 14, 2024!
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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 will engage 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 will look at work in The Drawing Center's galleries and be 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 will deepen their conceptual and observational drawing skills, through exploring individual style, the search for inspiration, and spatial awareness on & across the page. The goal is for participants to further a generative routine drawing practice and to celebrate what they are uniquely motivated to sketch.
The program will take place in-person at The Drawing Center in Soho at 35 Wooster Street.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Week 1: rising 7th-9th graders | Monday August 5-Friday August 9 from 9:30am-12:00pm
Week 2: rising 10th-11th graders | Monday August 12-Friday August 16 from 9:30am-12:30pm
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.
Credits
Education and Community Programs at The Drawing Center are made possible by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. 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, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and the M&T Charitable Foundation.