Doodle Jam Durham

"I’m not a super, fancy-pants, art guy." - , artist, educator, doodlist

What's a Doodle Jam?

Doodle Jam is a night to remember that art is FUN, art is WEIRD, and art is for EVERYONE.

Grab a marker and get ready for ridiculous prompts from the wild and brilliant mind of Host HP Fangs...scribble next to your neighbors - the best doodles win prizes!

He'll be backed by DJ tunes, and joined by some of the Triangle's best artists in head-to-head cross-town challenges.

$15 ticket gets you a Sharpie, paper, and a bag full of goodies

Get ready to doodle your ♥️ out.

ABOUT

I'm a North Carolina based Doodlist who’s heavily influenced by 80s/90s pop culture and comic books. Over the years I’ve been fortunate enough to illustrate children's books, teach drawing as a therapeutic practice and have my work featured on various large and small platforms - but mostly I’m just known for drawing big teeth on things. It’s my jam!

Currently, I teach middle and highschool art for Glow Academy. My background has always been in youth advocacy and development, so I revel in opportunities to integrate the skills. Additionally, I teach private lessons and do caricature art for special events (contact me for more details). Oh, also and most importantly to know… I use the word “dope” – a lot.

FROM

He's a man of many names, not to mention games.

As a visual artist, he goes by HP Fangs, which is short for Happy Fangs. His rapper name, if you will, for his past and future life as a hip-hop musician, is Haji P, short for Haji Pajamas.

His students call him Mr. Greyson, kind of like his personal Facebook page, which is "Regular Greyson."

"Middle-schoolers are still down to be weird," Davis said, which is why he prefers teaching students of that age.

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When deciding which work he wanted to submit [to CAM's "State of the Art/Art of the State" exhibit"] — each artist got just one — he thought, "This might be the only opportunity I ever have to have my work in a museum. What if I just draw a butt?"

And so, Davis submitted a painting of a cartoonish derriere passing a big green cloud of gas. It made him laugh, so he drew it.

[Dr. Maia Nuku of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, one of three curators of the show] loved it...She said "the illest thing that anyone's ever said about my work. She goes, '22 lines.' She had counted my strokes. 'You did more with those 22 lines than most people could.' I was so hyped up."

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Davis said he's often asked, "'What's your end goal?' I dunno, draw more pictures of dumb things."

But as a kid who grew up reading the funny papers and admiring the work he saw, "I feel like I want to give 8-year-old me a high five," Davis said. "'We did it!'"

Host or Publisher Durham Art Guild