3-Day Drawing Marathon Workshop w/ Amanda Nedham [JUNE 21, 22, + 23]
3-Day Drawing Marathon Workshop w/ Amanda Nedham [JUNE 21, 22, + 23]
IN PERSON Workshop
@ The Canopy Studio (NYC)
Location: 508/516 W. 26th St, #6E, New York, NY
Dates: Friday, June 21; Saturday, June 22; and Sunday, June 23
Times: 1:00 - 5:00 pm (4 hours)
Workshop Packages + Dates
Full Package (3-Days) $250
Friday, Saturday, + Sunday: June 21 - 23
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Partial Package (2-Days) $170
Saturday + Sunday: June 22 + 23
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Single Package (1-Day) $85
If you can only commit to one day - this is a great option!
You can select either Saturday, June 22 or Sunday, June 23 on the enrollment form.
[ Friday, June 21 is at capacity for Single Package sign-ups ]
About this Workshop
The Drawing Marathon workshop led by Amanda Nedham is a 3-day opportunity to explore drawing as a catalyst, a conjurer, and collaborator. During the course of the workshop, you will focus on reacquainting your mind with your hand and deepening your relationship to this unique medium. This workshop is designed for anyone who is invested in making drawing a more significant part of their practice, who are seeking to break out of creative block and for artists who are looking for community!
The workshop will encompass experimental drawing practices, collaborative approaches, observational drawing and other strategies to get out of your own way while making work, while the emphasis will always remain on the journey led by line. This experience is also ideal for those who want to hone their drawing to serve a specific concept related to their greater studio practice, or who want to push boundaries.
The primary act of drawing will be the core of the Drawing Marathon, but as part of the workshop experience there will also be demos, short presentations of works ranging from the unconventional to the contemporary, and discussions. As a group we will engage practically, historically, and philosophically with this mystical medium that humans have been participating in for tens of thousands of years.
There will be no mandatory assignments outside of the workshop days, however discussions will be encouraged about contemporary drawing, and a generous bibliography along with PDFs related to various aspects of drawing will be made available. We will discuss tools and techniques and dabble in the kind of time travel that only drawing can take us on.
Please note: Artists are welcome to enroll in the full workshop (3 days) or participate in only 1-2 days - see above.
Artists in this workshop will:
Connect with new community of artist peers
Participate in exploratory and alternative drawing practices
Produce a number of experimental drawing pieces
Learn about works, in the realm of drawing, ranging from the unconventional to the contemporary
Be challenged to think outside of your normal methods + push boundaries
Faculty Bio
Amanda Nedham completed her BFA at OCAD University in Printmaking and her MFA at RISD in Painting. She currently works and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her studio practice is interdisciplinary with an emphasis on drawing and installation. Nedham is interested in collapsing the monumental and the mundane through radical memorial gestures, with a current emphasis on communing with the dead.
Recent exhibitions include I’ll draw you a fly at Field Projects in New York City, Frida Smoked at Invisible-Exports in NYC, My Boyfriend is a Peacekeeper at Putty's Coronation in NYC, Q: Are you an undertaker? A: No Q: Are you a service provider? A: Yes at LE Gallery in Toronto, Extract IV Young Art Prize at GL Strand in Copenhagen, and the Hello Future Talents Archive Project at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. Amanda has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. More recently she attended the Wassaic Project residency in Upstate NY and prior to that participated in ARTHA's studio residency program in Brooklyn, New York. She runs workshops on radical love letters and in 2019 published her first book of drawings and love letters, My Boyfriend is a Peacekeeper.
