Value Drawing in Charcoal (3 session)
Adult Workshop | Registration opens Monday, July 6, 2026 8:00 AM EDT
This workshop is focused on developing the essential drawing skill of seeing and using value to create light, form, depth, and atmosphere. Using charcoal, students will work through two still life sessions and one live model session while exploring tonal relationships, contrast, and observational techniques. This class is ideal for students with some prior drawing experience or who have taken introductory drawing fundamentals courses.
What You Will Learn:
- How to see and simplify value shapes
- Creating light, shadow, and depth with charcoal
- Observational drawing techniques for still life and the figure
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.