Materials Lab Workshop: Smooth, Crunchy, Layered—“Drawing Is Just Like Making a Sandwich”

Simple tools can be powerful vehicles for artistic expression. Sensitively used, charcoal and graphite become antennae, sensory extensions, and seismographs of our attention, tracing the very act of observation onto a surface. Join artist Joshua Hart in the Materials Lab to first familiarize ourselves with these materials and to develop a wide range of marks, starting with some collaborative gesture studies. We’ll break for a brief inspiring tour of the exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black, led by exhibition co-curator Miriam Stewart, and then return to the Materials Lab to sketch, shade, smudge, and more!