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Course Description

Open to beginners, intermediate, and advanced drawers alike, this course will focus on evolving your understanding of the drawing process by breaking down habitual assumptions between what we see, what we think we see, and the ways we use our body while drawing. We’ll be using a range of fun exercises to investigate how we experience, understand, and draw form; demonstrate the role our memories and predictive thinking plays in the process; and use playful techniques to challenge how we traditionally use our body, hands, and arms while we draw. This course will help you advance your ability to draw from visual interpretation to paper, while also helping you play with your own personal expression as an artist.

AAN is able to provide scholarships/tuition aid through the Wellness Through the Arts Program. This program is made possible through funding from the Town of Nantucket Human Services Department. For questions or assistance please contact Elizabeth Buccino, Director of Education

Cancellation Policy

AAN depends upon student tuition to continue to offer classes and workshops. Due to our commitment to small class sizes and the hands-on nature of art education, we are greatly impacted by cancellations. Nevertheless, we do understand that plans change. If you need to cancel your reservation for a class or workshop, please note our cancellation/refund policy here and let us know as soon as possible.

Materials

All materials included in tuition.

The Hand/ Eye/ Mind Connection: Creative Exercises in Drawing, 18+

Dionis Carter

Dionis Carter is an illustrator, textile designer, and photographer. She graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2016 with a BFA in Fibers and uses traditional and non-traditional drawing, fiber, and sculptural processes. Her designs, though informed by history and tradition, are inspired by nature and issues in contemporary society, such as environmentalism, empathy, apathy, and human identity. Raised in both the woodlands of Sherborn and on the shores of Nantucket Island, she grew up infatuated with the natural world. She has a fascination for the patterns she sees in nature and society, and she hopes to incorporate travel into her work as a way to experience nature, history, and art around the world.
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