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• Drawing as Meditation Workshop

  • Start
    March 08, 2023
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  • End
    March 29, 2023
  •  
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Lexington Arts & Crafts Society, 130 Waltham Street, Lexington, MA 02421

  Drawing as Meditation Workshop

  Instructed by Damon Lehrer

  This workshop is an opportunity for people of all drawing abilities, from absolute beginner to pro, to come together around the act of drawing from a live model in a meditative way, by slowing down and paring away everything external to the process of observation and creation.

  Like a yoga class, the workshops will emphasize compassion and non-judgement, and the deep focus that harnesses the naturally meditative aspects of drawing from a live model to relax the mind and body. Attendees will sit together in a warm and comfortable space, listening to calming music, and observing as the teacher demonstrates simple ways to relax into the process of drawing.

  Each participant is free to follow their own meditative and learning path during the sessions. Come draw and relax your heart, brain, and spirit through an experience of communal learning. 

  This class is just one of multiple workshops. Participants are encouraged to sign up for multiple sessions, but it is not required, as each course stands on its own.

  Fee: $30 per session; please register in advance (no drop-ins).

  For more information and to register, go to https://www.lexart.org/classes

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• Thursday Evening Long Pose

  • When
    March 23, 2023
  •  
    7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
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  Come join us for our Thursday night life drawing sessions! All levels welcome, no prior drawing or painting experience necessary. We will start with a few quick warm-ups, and then move into a long pose for remaining 2.5 hours. If you bring oil paints, please use an odorless medium.

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• Saturday Evening Short Pose Session

  • When
    March 25, 2023
  •  
    7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
    2 registrants

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  Saturday Evening Short Pose Session

  Come draw with us on Saturday evenings! The model will take poses ranging from 1 minute up to 20 or 25 minutes (or longer if time permits).

  $25 ($15 for monthly members and students)

  Please limit guests to one per member.

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• Sunday morning month-long pose

  • When
    March 26, 2023
  •  
    9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
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  Sunday morning long-pose sessions feature a fun and welcoming environment, for passionate painters and draftsmen of all skill levels to hone their craft. We welcome all mediums, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, pencils, iPad and even silverpoint should you choose. Please register in advance so that your easel spot will be assured. However, we always make space for everyone.

  BFAC is unique in Boston for offering three month-long sessions per week, each lasting a full month (i.e., each session meets 4 or 5 times–depending on the number of times the day occurs in the month–on the same day for an entire month). This is your opportunity to develop your skills, explore in depth your intention as a representational artist. If you've studied in college or in an atelier setting, this is the place to practice, practice, practice. Although all levels of experience are welcome, you'll find that the company in these sessions is collegial, a little more serious than Monday nights, and you'll be deeply rewarded.

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• Monday evening short pose session

  • When
    March 27, 2023
  •  
    7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
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  Come draw some dynamic poses with us at the BFAC studio - we do shorter poses here, 1 minute to start, and ranging through 5, 10, 15, and 20 minute poses.

  $25 - drop-in fee

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• BFAC Literary Event – Josh Barkan and Jennifer Haigh

  • When
    March 30, 2023
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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  Two of Boston’s finest writers come together for a reading.

  Prize-winning authors Josh Barkan and Jennifer Haigh read from their most recent books, Barkan's story collection Mexico and Haigh's novel Mercy Street.

  
  

  Library Journal selected Barkan’s collection as one of the five best of 2017 and called it, “a near-perfect collection that's addictive, delicious, and confounding in its knife-edge ride through the hard lives of its characters." With deep empathy, and understanding of the violence taking place in Mexico, Barkan surprises with unexpected characters—a chef, painters, a beauty queen.

  
  

  Richard Russo, in The New York Times Book Review, praised Haigh’s novel as, “Extraordinary... I was gobsmacked.” Mercy Street is a fearless examination of one of the most divisive issues of our time—abortion.

  
  

  Websites

  Josh Barkan

  Jennifer Haigh

  
  

  Facebook

  Josh Barkan

  Jennifer Haigh

  
  

  Instagram

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  Jennifer Haigh

  
  

  The reading is free and open to the public.

  
  

  Light refreshments will be served.

  
  

  RSVP appreciated but not required.

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• Drawing as Meditation Workshop

  • When
    April 01, 2023
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Boston Figurative Art Center, 6 Vernon Street, #23, Somerville, MA 02145
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  Drawing as Meditation Workshop

  Instructed by Adam LoRusso and Aleksey Mafusalov

  Building on the Drawing as Meditation classes offered at the BFAC over the past months, artist and meditation practitioner Adam LoRusso and BFAC host Aleksey Mafusalov will lead a three-hour workshop, in which life drawing will be used as a tool to deepen our awareness and enjoyment of the present moment. 

  Along with calming music, pleasant warm lighting, and gentle encouragement, the hosts will lead students through guided meditations to help them see and draw more easily and with more confidence. Compassion, non-judgment, and an emphasis on the process rather than the product will create the ideal environment to start learning to draw, or to enhance enjoyment of a long-standing drawing practice.

  Beginner to advanced artists are welcome; no experience is necessary. Limited to 12 students.

  Please bring any materials you like to draw with. Easels, drawing horses, drawing boards, and simple refreshments will be provided.

  Fee: $60 before March 15; $70 after March 15.

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• Sunday morning month-long pose

  • When
    April 02, 2023
  •  
    9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
    Be the first

  Register

  Sunday morning long-pose sessions feature a fun and welcoming environment, for passionate painters and draftsmen of all skill levels to hone their craft. We welcome all mediums, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, pencils, iPad and even silverpoint should you choose. Please register in advance so that your easel spot will be assured. However, we always make space for everyone.

  BFAC is unique in Boston for offering three month-long sessions per week, each lasting a full month (i.e., each session meets 4 or 5 times–depending on the number of times the day occurs in the month–on the same day for an entire month). This is your opportunity to develop your skills, explore in depth your intention as a representational artist. If you've studied in college or in an atelier setting, this is the place to practice, practice, practice. Although all levels of experience are welcome, you'll find that the company in these sessions is collegial, a little more serious than Monday nights, and you'll be deeply rewarded.

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• Monday evening short pose session

  • When
    April 03, 2023
  •  
    7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
    Be the first

  Register

  Come draw some dynamic poses with us at the BFAC studio - we do shorter poses here, 1 minute to start, and ranging through 5, 10, 15, and 20 minute poses.

  $25 - drop-in fee

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• Thursday Evening Long Pose

  • When
    April 06, 2023
  •  
    7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville

  Come join us for our Thursday night life drawing sessions! All levels welcome, no prior drawing or painting experience necessary. We will start with a few quick warm-ups, and then move into a long pose for remaining 2.5 hours. If you bring oil paints, please use an odorless medium.

  Show details
• Sunday morning month-long pose

  • When
    April 09, 2023
  •  
    9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
    Be the first

  Register

  Sunday morning long-pose sessions feature a fun and welcoming environment, for passionate painters and draftsmen of all skill levels to hone their craft. We welcome all mediums, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, pencils, iPad and even silverpoint should you choose. Please register in advance so that your easel spot will be assured. However, we always make space for everyone.

  BFAC is unique in Boston for offering three month-long sessions per week, each lasting a full month (i.e., each session meets 4 or 5 times–depending on the number of times the day occurs in the month–on the same day for an entire month). This is your opportunity to develop your skills, explore in depth your intention as a representational artist. If you've studied in college or in an atelier setting, this is the place to practice, practice, practice. Although all levels of experience are welcome, you'll find that the company in these sessions is collegial, a little more serious than Monday nights, and you'll be deeply rewarded.

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• Sunday morning month-long pose

  • When
    April 16, 2023
  •  
    9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
    Be the first

  Register

  Sunday morning long-pose sessions feature a fun and welcoming environment, for passionate painters and draftsmen of all skill levels to hone their craft. We welcome all mediums, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, pencils, iPad and even silverpoint should you choose. Please register in advance so that your easel spot will be assured. However, we always make space for everyone.

  BFAC is unique in Boston for offering three month-long sessions per week, each lasting a full month (i.e., each session meets 4 or 5 times–depending on the number of times the day occurs in the month–on the same day for an entire month). This is your opportunity to develop your skills, explore in depth your intention as a representational artist. If you've studied in college or in an atelier setting, this is the place to practice, practice, practice. Although all levels of experience are welcome, you'll find that the company in these sessions is collegial, a little more serious than Monday nights, and you'll be deeply rewarded.

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• Sunday morning month-long pose

  • When
    April 23, 2023
  •  
    9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
    Be the first

  Register

  Sunday morning long-pose sessions feature a fun and welcoming environment, for passionate painters and draftsmen of all skill levels to hone their craft. We welcome all mediums, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, pencils, iPad and even silverpoint should you choose. Please register in advance so that your easel spot will be assured. However, we always make space for everyone.

  BFAC is unique in Boston for offering three month-long sessions per week, each lasting a full month (i.e., each session meets 4 or 5 times–depending on the number of times the day occurs in the month–on the same day for an entire month). This is your opportunity to develop your skills, explore in depth your intention as a representational artist. If you've studied in college or in an atelier setting, this is the place to practice, practice, practice. Although all levels of experience are welcome, you'll find that the company in these sessions is collegial, a little more serious than Monday nights, and you'll be deeply rewarded.

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• Sunday morning month-long pose

  • When
    April 30, 2023
  •  
    9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Vernon St. Studios, 6 Vernon St., Somerville
  • Registered
    Be the first

  Register

  Sunday morning long-pose sessions feature a fun and welcoming environment, for passionate painters and draftsmen of all skill levels to hone their craft. We welcome all mediums, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, pencils, iPad and even silverpoint should you choose. Please register in advance so that your easel spot will be assured. However, we always make space for everyone.

  BFAC is unique in Boston for offering three month-long sessions per week, each lasting a full month (i.e., each session meets 4 or 5 times–depending on the number of times the day occurs in the month–on the same day for an entire month). This is your opportunity to develop your skills, explore in depth your intention as a representational artist. If you've studied in college or in an atelier setting, this is the place to practice, practice, practice. Although all levels of experience are welcome, you'll find that the company in these sessions is collegial, a little more serious than Monday nights, and you'll be deeply rewarded.

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