First Steps to Drawing (tuition-free, five sessions)
Adult Tuition-Free Class | This program is completed
Anyone can learn to draw, including YOU! This course is designed for students who are just starting out, or maybe those who have never drawn before. You will be introduced to key techniques that are necessary to the discipline of Drawing such as line quality and value, measuring and proportions, negative space and the picture plane and how to use a viewfinder while working from still life and photographs.
Participants must have a valid Fleisher membership.
• Vinyl eraser
• Kneaded eraser
• Pencil sharpener
• Soft vine charcoal
• Compressed charcoal
• 12 inch ruler
• Graphite pencils: HB, 2B, 4B (or an assorted pack of “sketching pencils”)
• Strathmore 400 series (or similar) drawing paper pad - 12” x 18” or bigger
• Small sketchbook (optional)
Alicia Link
Alicia Link is a multidisciplinary visual artist, educator, and arts writer whose work interrogates systems that restrict and limit our agency and understanding of our bodies. Rooted in both object-making, painting, and performance strategies, her practice privileges material experimentation and process as a means of engaging with embodied memory, labor, and the politics of value—both personal and cultural.
She holds a BFA in Painting from Boston University and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. Link has participated in residencies at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Philadelphia, PA, and Vermont Studio Center, where she was a residency fellowship recipient. She has exhibited at galleries and arts centers across the US, including Space Heater Gallery, Brooklyn; Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH; the Visual Arts Center in Austin, TX; and AUTOMAT, Philadelphia. She currently teaches at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and Fleisher Art Memorial. She views the classroom as a radical space for exchanging and investing in ideas while encouraging critical conversations about how art connects to broader political concerns.