Drawing Week in the City of Science was based on a series of events revolving around drawing as a medium, technique, and source of inspiration.
The programme featured workshops for children (in the Youth Palace in Katowice, and the Kato Science Corner x Metrolab), workshops for children and adults (Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice), and Ucholokacja – 4-day workshops in Planetarium – The Silesian Science Park. Participants could enjoy exhibitions and listen to lectures at the ‘Rondo Sztuki’ Gallery, the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and Szałfynster Gallery in Katowice.
Almost 640 recipients took part in 15 activities taking place within Drawing Week.
Some of the events was not open to the general public due to their special character, for instance, workshops for children hospitalised in the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology in Zabrze and the Upper Silesian Child Health Centre in Katowice. They resulted in a project for a mural, which we will see in spring in the urban space of Katowice.
So was the character of workshops with seniors from Częstochowa. Participants observed the light, built self-portraits, highlighted and used transparent structures to create drawing objects that can become beautiful cards dedicated to themselves.
‘Drawing can be a sketch, a note, a record of one’s first thought, or a project. We can even say that drawing is a state of mind. It keeps us company from the very start of our lives, regardless of whether someone uses it professionally or doodles during a boring phone call. Nevertheless, drawing is not only a visual expression. The equivalent of drawing can be found in audio registers and performative actions. It is also a therapeutic tool. During Drawing Week in the City of Science, we considered drawing as a source we experience from the very beginning,’ informs Prof. Grzegorz Hańderek, one of the curators of Drawing Week.
The Academy of Fine Arts and Design took up the subject of drawing as an everchanging medium. The subject was covered during numerous meetings, conferences and exhibitions organised during the International Student Drawing Triennial. The participation in these activities (during each edition) features artists whose domain is drawing and all related fields. Each time, the Triennial gains new audience and creators, finds new educational and artistic qualities in the covered areas, and exhibits the great potential lying in the medium of drawing.
Participants of Drawing Week had a chance to meet Monika Grzymala – a contemporary sculptor and drawing artist, author of installations focused on drawing, and a lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Arts HBK Braunschweig Germany (2005–2007 and 2012–2013) and the University of Applied Arts Vienna Austria (2013–2014).
Drawing is a subject of studies of artists associated with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice including: Prof. Janusz Karbowniczek and Prof. Jolanta Jastrząb. Drawing is a subject matter of employees of the Faculty of Art’s Intermedia and Scenography Department, especially those associated with the Multigraphical Creations Studio, the Intermedia and Digital Techniques Studio, and the Interpretation of Literature Studio. The artistic and research activity within them is carried out, among others, by Prof. Grzegorz Hańderek.
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