Expanded Drawing (tuition-free, five sessions)
Adult Tuition-Free Class | Available (Membership Required)
Get ready for a playful, experimental, and inquisitive drawing class! Rooted in the idea that drawing is an accumulation of marks and gestures, this class is designed to explore different techniques and strategies beyond observational drawing practices in order to create expressive, potentially abstract, and non-traditional looking drawings. Using both familiar and perhaps unfamiliar materials, this course will serve as a bridge between traditional and contemporary drawing practices. Classes will include demos, contemporary and art historical context, and feedback from the instructor and fellow students.
What you will learn:
1. A variety of approaches to composition, value, mark, and texture in drawing
2. How to embrace process over product
3. How to use a range of media including ink and charcoal dust
4. Art Historical as well as contemporary context for drawing
• Participants must have a valid Fleisher membership.
• Drawing pencils - HB, 2B, 4B
• Pencil Sharpener
• Plastic Eraser
• Kneaded Eraser
• Soft Vine Charcoal
• Compressed Charcoal
• Small bottle of waterproof india ink (such as black cat)
• 18” x 24” mixed media drawing pad (heavy weight paper for wet and dry media)
• A few rags –an old cut up t-shirt works great
• Optional – small sketchbook for ideas and planning
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.