Tickets
General Ticket, per session: $5
Member Ticket, per session: FREE, RSVP REQUIRED
Bring a sketchbook, graphite or colored pencils, and/or pens and have a seat in the Main Gallery of The Church for a communal drawing salon led by artists and art professors Jackie Hoving and Norm Paris! This recurring program celebrates our fall exhibition Here & There: The Church’s First Churchennial while also honoring The Church’s commitment to fostering creativity on the East End. Flex your creative muscles as you draw the people around you, the space, or something that catches your eye in a meditative experience of observing and being present.
Norm, a professor at Rhode Island School of Design, and Jackie, a professor at Pratt Institute, met as students in Sam Messer’s Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art program. It was there the couple spent time in Sam’s “drawing happenings” and were inspired by his belief in community and bringing people together through drawing.
In alignment with The Church’s vision for a creative community, the Drawing Meetups invite participants of all skill levels to a laid-back environment with a communal spirit. Tables and chairs will be provided and participants are also welcome to find a space within the exhibition for a solo meditative drawing journey. Some graphite pencils and 8x11” paper will also be provided, though participants are encouraged to bring their own supplies. Charcoal, paints, and markers are not permitted in these sessions.
Please note that this is a causal drawing session and not a class.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
JACKIE HOVING
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The work of this New York–based artist is engaged in concealing and revealing through patterns and layers, weaving together images to create a camouflaged, nonlinear narrative. Hoving has attended Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music, Vermont Studio Center, and Oxbow Artist Residency. As a founding member of the artist-run space Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Brooklyn she has had the opportunity to curate several shows including Magic Shell and Night Flight. Hoving is an accomplished educator who has taught for many years at Pratt Institute and Rhode Island School of Design.
NORM PARIS
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A painter and a printmaker, Paris grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, a city with an industrial and civic history that has profoundly influenced the way he thinks about space. He is interested in over-built structures, struggling icons, and failed reenactments of old myths. Paris earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. He has lectured at Yale, Arcadia University, Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Tyler School of Art and has been teaching drawing at RISD since 2008. Paris was a Pew Fellowship finalist in 2005 and won the Ralph Mayer Prize for excellence in methods and materials at Yale in 2002. His work is part of the permanent collections at the Jewish Museum in New York, among other noted collections, and was recently on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Samson Projects in Boston, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Proposition in New York City.