Support for this program is provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council through the CreateNYC Language Access Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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.
ASL DrawNow! John Zorn and Ericka Beckman (online)
Join us on Thursday, April 10, for an online drawing workshop presented in American Sign Language (ASL) and inspired by our current exhibitions John Zorn: Hermetic Cartography and Ericka Beckman: Power of the Spin.
Hermetic Cartography includes a diverse array of New York musician John Zorn’s visual artworks, graphic scores, dense philosophical notations, abstract poetry and artist books, and not only highlights Zorn’s radical approach to marks on paper but also his unique Theatre of Musical Optics and other experimental projects. By exploring these visual elements, the exhibition provides a new perspective on how Zorn's abstract works intersect with and inform his musical compositions.
Power of the Spin features more than twenty of filmmaker Ericka Beckman’s drawings, ranging from sketches and storyboards to large-scale finished compositions created at different moments throughout her career. These drawings are accompanied by the continuous screening of two new films by Beckman in the lower-level gallery.
Please note this online workshop, hosted by teaching artists Nic Annette Miller and Joyce Hom, will be in ASL with no voice interpretation. It is free and open to the signing community.