DRAWING WORKSHOP | The Field Center

DRIFT: A DRAWING AND MOVEMENT

WORKSHOP-FESTIVAL

WITH ANYA SMOLNIKOVA + LILIANNA KANE [+ JULIO NEIJENS] SEPTEMBER 9 - 15

DRIFT: a drawing and movement workshop-festival

with Anya Smolnikova and Lilianna Kane

[weekend guest artist teacher Julio Neijens]

DRIFT: is a collaborative curriculum focused on skill-building, open practice, research sessions and collective belonging. We will engage in experimental markmaking exercises, fundamental drawing techniques and work with a figure model. Daily movement and contact improvisation sessions will keep us flexible, integrate the senses and open gateways to empathic relating.

all levels welcome • beginners encouraged

homecooked meals | fresh garden vegetables | sauna | river dips | woods

[whole-workshop, commuter, single-day, multi-day, weekend-pass & work-trade options available]

Please see supplies list HERE

SCHEDULE OVERVIEW [may change a little as we dream into this]

tuesday 9/9: arrivals+check-in 2-6 | dinner 6:30-7:30 | opening circle 8:15-9:15 | landing meditation 9:15-9:45

friday 9/12: morning practice 8-9 | breakfast 9-10 | morning session w/ Anya 10:45-1:15 |

lunch 1:30-2:30 | afternoon session w/ Lily 3:15-5:30 | dinner 6:30-7:30 | open evening

drift:

as in let it happen

as in daydream

as in follow the flow of the river of your individual mind into the unified-field-ocean of ideas and visions

SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN

We offer 3 full scholarships for Black, Indigenous and People of Color [BIPOC] folks in each session. As well as 3 Work Trade spots in each session. If interested please select 'BIPOC Scholarship' ticket OR 'Work Trade' ticket when registering via the link below. For more information about the work trade exchange, please see Work Exchange.

CLICK HERE to register with a Payment Plan.

REFUND POLICY: Full refunds available up to 10 days prior to the event. Please inform us if you cannot attend an event up to 10 days prior [including Scholars and Work Traders]! Refunds within the 10 days prior to the event may be available on a case-by case basis, please reach out to communications@thefieldcenter.com

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS

Anya Smolnikova (b. Minsk, Belarus) is an artist and educator living and working in Vermont. Her art practice spans painting, drawing, performance, installation, dance and community actions. Smolnikova has exhibited internationally in Armenia at HAYP; in Los Angeles at LAST Projects; in Chicago at Mana Contemporary, Heaven Gallery, Links Halls, No Nation, and 6018 North; in Massachusetts at the Boston Boston Center for the Arts, Piano Craft Guild, MUSA Collective, Dorchester Art Projects and Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown. Collaborations include projects with Anastasia Tinari, FAR x WIDE, Seeding Sovereignty among others. Teaching includes Northwestern University; Northwestern Prison Education Program; Chicago Art Partnerships in Education; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Brookline, Cambridge and Boston Centers for Adult Education; The Field Center and The Putney School in Vermont among others. Smolnikova has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center, Boston Center for the Arts, Groundworks Space in Hudson Valley, and holds an MFA from Northwestern University in Chicago. She lives at The Field Center in Vermont, where she is a founding member, Director of Operations, Curator and Faculty.

@anyasmolnikovastudio

Photo by Anna Maynard

Lilianna Kane is an artist and chef, primarily invested in the dance practice of Contact Improvisation. She is committed to improvisation as a physical practice of asking questions, paying attention, patience and peace. She values the interplay of rigor, rest, discipline and play. She teaches and shares her practices nationally and internationally, as well as producing and organizing international CI gatherings and intensives. She is currently the head chef and a CI curator at The Field Center (center for performance, dance and multimedia art) in Bellows Falls, VT) where she has the privilege of regularly practicing, teaching, and researching Contact Improvisation. She is deeply indebted and inspired by all of her teachers, dance partners, and dance ancestors, who continually influence her practice

www.liliannakane.com

Photo by Anna Maynard

Julio Neijens is an artist and art educator based in Western Mass. His artistic practice primarily consists of landscape and portrait paintings and drawings. His ‘Approaches’ workshops began an exploration of foundations of art-making based in intrinsic sensory and emotional human experience rather than learned academic technique. He has worked with the MultiArts Programs for 10 years, evolving a teaching practice that collaborates with and cultivates the qualities of children’s art, and is currently teaching Middle and High School at Four Rivers Charter Public School in Greenfield MA.

@_approaches

WITH ANYA SMOLNIKOVA + LILIANNA KANE [+ JULIO NEIJENS] SEPTEMBER 9 - 15

SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN

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ABOUT THE FACILITATORS