The Drawing Center tomorrow!

Bärbel Neubauer, "Roots," 1996. 35mm film, 3:44 min. © Bärbel Neubauer. Courtesy Center for Visual Music. (Film still.)


Tomorrow, we go downtown to the only non-profit institution in the country to focus on the exhibition of drawings: aptly named, THE DRAWING CENTER. It was established in 1977 to "demonstrate the significance and diversity of drawings throughout history, to juxtapose work by master figures with work by emerging and under-recognized artists, and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture."

We'll be seeing one of their current exhibitions (on its last day!) called "Drawing on Film." From the website: "Drawing on Film will survey the practice of “direct film”—the process of drawing, scratching, or otherwise manipulating film stock to create images without a camera. The exhibition will present works spanning from the late 1930s to the present and will highlight an overlooked facet of experimental film. Many of the works to be exhibited are seminal films in the history of the genre—including Len Lye's A Colour Box and Norman McLaren's Blinkity Blank—while other, more contemporary works are being screened for the first time."

Leading us through the exhibition will be one of the curators of the show, Joanna Kleinberg! (What is a curator, you ask? Click here, I say.)


WHERE AND WHEN TO MEET:
(You have two options.)

EITHER: come to the High 5 office by 3:45pm and a group of us will head downtown together. We're leaving as soon as everyone who is coming to meet us gets there. Write eric an email if you are coming to High 5 at 3:45.

OR: meet us at The Drawing Center at 4:20pm, sharp! The Drawing Center is located at 35 Wooster Street in Manhattan. You can take nearly every train to get there.....

If you are traveling on the line, take the subway to Canal Street. Walk west to Wooster Street and turn right. Walk one and a half blocks to The Drawing Center. If you are traveling on the line, take the subway to Canal Street. Walk east to Wooster Street and turn left. Walk one and a half blocks to The Drawing Center.

Plan ahead, and be on time.
Do some research about the show on the The Drawing Center website.
And don't forget your little notebook + pen.

See you tomorrow!