Viewing Program 20/21 is supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Evelyn Toll Family Foundation.
Free online programs are made possible by The Cy Twombly Foundation.
Education and Community Programs at The Drawing Center are made possible by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. 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 Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Instagram Live with Viewing Program Artist Sahand Heshmati Afshar
Sahand Heshmati Afshar, Fingerprints, 2020. Charcoal on paper, 50 × 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Join Viewing Program artist Sahand Heshmati Afshar on Instagram Live for a tour of his studio and a discussion on his drawing practice. Sahand is a recent MFA graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is from Badar Abbas, Iran, and currently lives in Chicago. His work centers on the relations between cultural communion, politicized ethnography, and national identity.
Tune in Tuesday, July 6 at 12:30pm EDT on our instagram to watch live. To watch past instagram live conversations, please visit our IGTV.
Viewing Program 20/21 is a new initiative that builds upon the organization’s forty-year history of offering opportunities and support to contemporary artists. The program offers sixty participating artists mentorship in the form of virtual studio visits by The Drawing Center’s Artist in Residence, Lisa Sigal, and portfolio reviews by The Drawing Center’s curatorial team.