6th-12th Grade: Figure Drawing (Thursday)
Weekday Youth Class | Available
Study, practice, and hone your skills at drawing the human figure. In this class, you will draw from live models and learn about proportion, shading, and composition. Learn various techniques and styles and make drawings that you'll be proud to place in your portfolio!
This course has a tiered program fee. Alongside the non-refundable $95 base program fee, please consider paying an additional amount (up to $190 total) during the registration process. Opting to pay the higher program fee allows the program's base fee to stay accessible to more Philadelphians. Payment is due at the time of registration. If you need to pay with cash or check, select the Pay Later option during checkout. If cost is a barrier, please email cy@fleisher.org.
- Supplies are included. Please note that these weekday offers are at a higher price point than our Saturday offerings due to the cost of the materials provided.
Rowan Briggs
K. Briggs is an award winning graphic novelist and arts educator. She began her comic-making career while pursuing her Masters at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art with a feminist re-imagining of the archetypal Hero Story, “Story(cycle)”. Their adaptation of “Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1” won the inaugural Elsinore Award for Graphic Shakespeare in 2016.
A fixture of the Scottish Independent Comic scene, Briggs founded and ran the Ex Libris Book Fair, Dundee’s only independent book fair. Her work has been exhibited in both art galleries and colleges in Sweden, Scotland, Japan, and the United States. An experienced art educator, Briggs lectured at their alma mater, Glasgow School of Art, The McManus Museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, and presented a paper she co-authored at the 2016 Graphic Medicine conference in Dundee. They are currently a teaching artist for Fleisher Art Memorial and Spiral Q in Philadelphia and ARTFusion 19464 in Pottstown.
https://k-briggs.com/