Keep Drawing Until Halloween!
Sept 23, 2016
Big Draw Vancouver kicks off a month of drawing!
Keep drawing all month with artists at Vancouver Park Board Fieldhouse Studios!:
Cloudscape Comics in Memorial Park
The Urban Animal Agency in Stanley Park
Publik Secrets in Hadden Park
Dance Troupe Practice in Pandora Park
Iris Collective in Falaise Park
Uncle Hookis Hornmaking Workshop in McLean Park
ChArt: Environmental Art project in Elm Park
Contemporary Art Gallery Burrard Marina Fieldhouse
Visit http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/field-house-studio-residencies-in-parks.aspx for a list of Fieldhouse Studio Blogs and Websites to get details
Deserres on Grandview Highway is hosting A different drawing workshop every Saturday in October. Visit www.deserres.ca for details
Sept 23, 2016
Big Draw Vancouver kicks off a month of drawing!
Keep drawing all month with artists at Vancouver Park Board Fieldhouse Studios!:
Cloudscape Comics in Memorial Park
The Urban Animal Agency in Stanley Park
Publik Secrets in Hadden Park
Dance Troupe Practice in Pandora Park
Iris Collective in Falaise Park
Uncle Hookis Hornmaking Workshop in McLean Park
ChArt: Environmental Art project in Elm Park
Contemporary Art Gallery Burrard Marina Fieldhouse
Visit http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/field-house-studio-residencies-in-parks.aspx for a list of Fieldhouse Studio Blogs and Websites to get details
Deserres on Grandview Highway is hosting A different drawing workshop every Saturday in October. Visit www.deserres.ca for details
The Big Draw Welcomes Vancouver School Board’s Sketchbook Project!
Sept 12, 2016
As part of the Big Draw, 5 community centres across Vancouver will be exhibiting drawings from the Vancouver Schoolboard Sketchbook Project for the entire month of October. The Sketchbook Project is an annual joint venture between the Vancouver School Board and the University of British Columbia. Students participate in daily drawing and teachers and student teachers have a chance to develop materials that inspire confidence in drawing skills and facilitate meaningful conversations about drawing.
The Sketchbook Project extends the research of UBC Professor Emeritus Bob Steele, who continues to promote the importance of daily drawing and links it profoundly to the development of literacy skills. Bob writes:
… drawing is a language for expressing things and unlike words, there is no code to learn. … children have so much to say that can't be expressed in spoken words and these thoughts and feelings are very important to mental development.
We'll be exhibiting Sketchbook Project sketches at:
Britannia CC for Britannia School
Hastings CC: Tillacum and Franklin Schools
Killarney CC for Kingsforth-Smith and Weir Schools
Dunbar CC for Trafalgar School
Renfrew Pk CC for Collingwood School
In addition VSB artist in residence Phyllis Shwartz will be leading The Big Draw on the Beach at Jericho Park Beach on Oct 1st. You can read all about it here http://www.drawvancouver.com/drawing-on-the-beach-jericho-park-beach.html
As part of the Big Draw, 5 community centres across Vancouver will be exhibiting drawings from the Vancouver Schoolboard Sketchbook Project for the entire month of October. The Sketchbook Project is an annual joint venture between the Vancouver School Board and the University of British Columbia. Students participate in daily drawing and teachers and student teachers have a chance to develop materials that inspire confidence in drawing skills and facilitate meaningful conversations about drawing.
The Sketchbook Project extends the research of UBC Professor Emeritus Bob Steele, who continues to promote the importance of daily drawing and links it profoundly to the development of literacy skills. Bob writes:
… drawing is a language for expressing things and unlike words, there is no code to learn. … children have so much to say that can't be expressed in spoken words and these thoughts and feelings are very important to mental development.
We'll be exhibiting Sketchbook Project sketches at:
Britannia CC for Britannia School
Hastings CC: Tillacum and Franklin Schools
Killarney CC for Kingsforth-Smith and Weir Schools
Dunbar CC for Trafalgar School
Renfrew Pk CC for Collingwood School
In addition VSB artist in residence Phyllis Shwartz will be leading The Big Draw on the Beach at Jericho Park Beach on Oct 1st. You can read all about it here http://www.drawvancouver.com/drawing-on-the-beach-jericho-park-beach.html