October 5 (1pm-6pm) and 6 (9am – 5pm)2019

How can drawing act to help us think, learn and understand?  Drawing performances, presentations and workshops explore how the drawing process can work to materialize and extend our ideas and perceptions of ourselves, others and the world in new ways.

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Saturday October 5 1pm-6 pm(The Terrace)

• 1pm  Welcome
  Coffee, light refreshments
  Introduction to the Thinking through Drawing Project and Drawing Acts
• Faheem Haider, American Table
• 1:30   Drawing Conversations (DoBeDo): pairs or small groups, people who DON’t know each other draw together silently
• 2:30 Short presentations: Josh Korenblat, Andrea Frank
• 3:00 Jaanika Peerna, Glacial Elegy
• 4:00 Emily Sheehan: Personal Practice
• 4:30  Roundtable 1. Sharing Practice
• 5:15  Drawing Together: discussion and collaborative concept mapping

Saturday night option (tickets bought separately):
SUNY New Paltz Music Concert Series: With Gongs, Drums and Pianos

Sunday October 6, 9am-5pm

• 9:00 Welcome
• 9:30-12:30 Concurrent Sessions
• Andrea Frank and Michael Asbill: TIME DRAWING – a System Drawing Session
• 9:30-11  Cheryl Wheat: The Auspicious Mark  Smiley Art Building room 114)
• 11:00 coffee break (College Terrace)
• 11:15 Ann Deutsch: Drawing for Student Engagement
• 11:45 Marta Cabral: Material Inquiry
• 12:30-1:30  Lunch (provided)  Roundtable 2: Sharing Practice (Terrace)
• 1:30 Joyce Yu-Jean Lee: Embodying Empathy through Durational Drawing
• 2:00       Chris Moffett & Helen Singh-Miller: The Course of Improvisation
  • Barb Seigel and Denise Easton: Practicing Organization Awarefulness
  • Joshua Korenblat: Goethe’s Way of Seeing
• 3:30  Coffee Break
• 3:45 Drawing Together : Concept Mapping
• 4:15- 5pm Closing Panel discussion:  Drawing Together, Thinking Ahead!