Masterclass: Drawing Comes to Life

Instructor: Power Boothe

Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025

Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Ages: 12+

Members: $99

Non-Members: $110

(Registration deadline: November 11)

Description:

A drawing starts with a meaningless mark or line. It takes place on a flat sheet of paper (the field of play) and when we begin to see something happen, we are called to the hunt, (what was meaningless now become meaningful). With more marks we create relations, we enter into a dialogue, and what was flat soon becomes a space with depth, (space in the sense of freedom). Participants do not need special skills to take this drawing workshop. Every exercise will be inherently accessible, rooted in our daily experience (what comes naturally) and the focus will be on getting back to basics. Every drawing will ultimately rely on the experiences of each unique individual who is the expert of who they already are. Whatever skills one has acquired before the workshop is where each individual will begin – to enact that mysterious event – that thing that happens when a “drawing comes to life”. 

Note: As part of this masterclass, a public lecture entitled "Everything Trembles: Art and Complexity" by Power Boothe will be held at FPAC on November 16, 2025. Find more details here. 

Materials:

Provided by participant:

• Sketchbook for notetaking

• Vine and compressed charcoal

• Paper used for projects

(Ink will be supplied)

Instructor Bio:

Power Boothe is a non-objective abstract painter. He has had over 30 one-person exhibitions and is represented by the Fred Giampietro Gallery, His most recent solo exhibition, at the Lyman Allyn Museum of Art in CT, was titled: Nothing Then Everything. His paintings, prints, and drawings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, MOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In Connecticut his artworks are in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the New Britain Museum, and the Florence Griswold Museum. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, the Maryland Institute, and Princeton University. He is currently Professor of Painting and Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.

Instructor website: https://www.powerboothe.com

All workshops are held at the Five Points Arts Center, 855 University Drive

Workshops may be cancelled due to low enrollment if a minimum number of participants are not met. Registrants will be notified in advance and a refund or credit will be arranged (see workshop polices below for details).

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