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 and educator whose work interrogates systems that restrict and limit our agency and understanding of our bodies. Working across object-making, painting, and performance, 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.
Link holds a BFA in Painting from Boston University and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. She has participated in residencies at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Officina Stamperia del Notaio (Tusa, Sicily). She’s exhibited nationally at venues including Space Heater Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Roy G Biv Gallery (Columbus, OH), the Visual Arts Center (Austin, TX), and AUTOMAT (Philadelphia, PA). She currently teaches at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and at Fleisher Art Memorial, and is a member of the collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid.