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Drawing as Mindfulness

Presented by Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center at Manifest Drawing Center, Cincinnati OH

Ongoing

An ongoing, weekly class open to all (no experience necessary) deigned to explore how drawing processes can inform our connections to ourselves, our neighbors, our world, and our time. Mondays (Participants must sign up for 8-week blocks). 7-9pm.

Drawing and design concepts such as negative space, balance, harmony, proportion, and movement, among others, merit exploring in life as much as in art. Through the same processes that artists use to make art, non-artists can learn about themselves, about their world, about being in time. Drawing as Mindfulness is not about creating a wonderful product (a ‘work of art’). Yes, drawings will be made—usually of simple objects brought in by the participants or provided by the instructor. But the real product is a quality experience, a renewed understanding of the value of practicing a form of visual art with a simple tool like a pencil or pen, and an enlivened connection to the world and people around you.

Join a ‘rolling’ 8-week group of fellow humans to explore how being in ‘the studio’ is like being in a church, an ancient old-growth forest, or prehistoric cave—allowing for the dissolving of assumed barriers between what one thinks about oneself relative to ‘art’ and how one processes the reality of being an individual in the world.

Each week will include basic and refreshing drawing guidance as well as guided philosophical thinking structured around 7 principles of design and their opposites. Classes are 2 hours. Each class will be facilitated by Brigid O’Kane who will bring her expertise and life insights to the group at hand. Discussion, sketching, and some writing will all center on the practice of mindfulness anchored by the ‘principles of the day’.

Taught by Manifest co-founder Brigid O’Kane

Tuition: $200 for an 8-week block of classes