Workshop: Drawing From Your Senses

Schedule

Sat, 18 Jan, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

River Gallery School | Brattleboro, VT

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Led by artist Tara Geer, whose work is featured in "Desire Lines," this two-hour drawing workshop explores ways of using all our senses—touch, sound, smell, and taste, as well as sight—to experience the world around us and create art. It also looks at the ways we tend to rely on memory, or ideas, to fill in gaps in our sensory perceptions, encouraging participants instead to be present and open to possibility. Geer will share her passion for drawing using pencils and charcoal on paper. No prior drawing experience is necessary—just an open mind and willingness to explore the unknown and make messes. Wear clothes that can be smudged! All ages who can draw on their own are welcome.
This workshop is presented in partnership with River Gallery School.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tara Geer started out drawing details that got overlooked. She says, “I am not interested in a world of known, knowable, sure things, but in a world brimming with raw sensation—the kind of seeing we do before we recognize something. I try to draw what I see but cannot explain. The more I draw, the more the drawing opens up, as if under a magnifying lens. The drawings take over, pull me in with wide hands like a commanding dance partner. They show their own history, all their mistakes, all hesitation, or anger, grief, quietness, joy. I can’t draw fast enough to get it all down.”
Geer’s work has appeared in solo exhibitions across the country, has been the subject of two books and two documentary films, and is held in numerous international private collections and in the public collections of the Morgan Library & Museum, the Parrish Art Museum, and the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation. Her work with the Victory Garden Collective, a five-woman activist group, is collected and exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has also been shown at many other venues.
Geer has been teaching for three decades, to children with visual processing challenges, museum educators, blocked artists, Yale University doctors, poets, and in the Art and Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds a BA and an MFA from Columbia University.
ADMISSION:
$45, $35 BMAC Members
Space is limited. Advance registration required.
To register, call 802-257-0124 x101 or visit: https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2024/11/04/workshop-drawing-from-your-senses/
LOCATION:
In person at River Gallery School – 32 Main Street, Suite 201, Brattleboro VT 05301
ACCESSIBILITY QUESTIONS?
Email [email protected] or call 802-257-0124 x101
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