Drawing as Seeing
DRAWING AS SEEING
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DRAWING AS SEEING
Siena, Italy
9/4/24 - 9/16/24
Experience the art and architecture of Siena through drawing!
Explore a multi-sensory art-making approach using touch, verbal description and experimental materials with artist Pamela Lawton. Lawton received a Fulbright Scholar award in 2019 to teach and make art in Italy at the Siena Art Institute. She teaches at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she applies innovative approaches to drawing. Additionally, she brings a range of educational expertise to this program, including teaching a variety of audiences in university, museum, and professional settings. Lawton attended an Italian art school and then became a college art instructor in Italy, as well as teaching other international locations in South and Central Asia.
Using Siena as our studio, this 12 day intensive class will provide an unusual, interactive drawing experience. Engaging with the rich heritage and culture of Siena through drawing using varied tactile materials, this class is geared towards students with a range of vision, including fully sighted students wishing to experiment with an alternative approach. Students will make discoveries about their own perceptions, about Siena, and about the drawing process. These methods provide unique tools and skills useful to all. We will meet four mornings a week to draw in the studio and in the surrounding cities’ locales, in museums, churches, and views and walking tours. Location visits in Siena will include the Siena Cathedral, the Pinacotecca Nazionale, and the Palazzo Publico. Italian language courses will be offered.
Cost of the trip, $4,800*, will include: Drawing instruction, Italian language classes, lodging (the school will provide housing near campus), art supplies, all museum visits scheduled with the group, a weekend in Florence (transportation to and from Florence, lodging in Florence, some meals, museum admissions there) a final dinner and a wine-tasting event. The cost does not include airfare or most meals.
*price is for shared room.
PAMELA LAWTON
Pamela Lawton is a recipient of the 2019-2020 Fulbright Scholar Award to Italy. Her multi-paneled pieces have reflected the height of the World Trade Center, the cacophony of Times Square, and the rhythm of the Indian Ocean, all of which she paints with zeal. She shares public artmaking practices with her students, including in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the streets of New York while teaching for Eugene Lang College, and in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and in Corciano, Italy, the latter while teaching graduate and undergraduate students at American University. She has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Galeria Nacional in Costa Rica, the Galeria Isabel Ignacio in Spain, and in New York City, including White Box Gallery, the Atrium Gallery, 180 Maiden Lane and the Conde Nast Building Gallery. Group exhibits in NYC include the Pierogi Gallery, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, and Sideshow Gallery; also, The Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland, and the Emmanuel Heller Gallery, Tel Aviv. Lawton is an Artist-In_Residence (AIR) at Chashama, NYC, and was an AIR at the World Trade Center through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her work is in collections in the US and abroad. Interviews featuring her exhibitions were aired on NY1News in 2011 and 2009. She received her BFA at Bennington COllege, and an MFA at City College of New York and Scuola Lorenzo De Medici in Florence, Italy. While on the faculty at Eugene Lang College, New School University, she created a study abroad program in Sri Lanka. She teaches at Manhattanville College, and has been a Met Museum educator for more than 10 years.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.pamelalawton.com
DANNY LICUL
Danny Licul is the Art and Italian Language Consultant for the program. Danny Licul is a painter living and working in New York City. Licul brings his art and language skills to the program in a supporting role as consultant and past assistant to Drawing As Seeing endeavors. His first language is Italian, and he is born of Italian heritage. He assisted during Drawing As Seeing’s workshops at the Uffizi Gallery, the Pitti Palace, and the Benaki Museum in 2019. His work has been exhibited at the, Owen James Gallery (SOHO), Gallery, SENSEI (LES), Joyce Goldstein Gallery (Chatham,NY), LABspace, (Hillsdale, NY), Bull and Ram Gallery (Bushwick), UMass (Amherst), White Box Gallery (NY), The National Museum and Art Gallery (Trinidad), The Wall Street Journal Lobby Gallery (NY), Center for Book Arts (NY), Sara Meltzer Gallery (NY) and Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery (Chicago). He has been awarded an LMCC Swing Space, a residency at The Herzliya Center for the Creative Arts (Israel), the Elias Friedenshon Memorial Art Award and the Yale Summer School of Art Fellowship. Articles featuring his work have appeared in “W The New York Art World” and “NYArts Magazine.” Licul attended Pratt, SUNY Purchase and Queens College, from which he received a B.F.A..
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.dannylicul.com
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