Figure Drawing

Led by: Vivian Krishnan

Mondays: February 26, March 4, 11, 18, 25

6:00-9:00pm

Library

Registration Deadline: February 19, 2024; 1 week prior to each subsequent class

Skill level: All Levels

Registration fee: $60/class OR $250/series

Course Description:

Draw from a live model through lightly instructed sessions. Open to all levels: beginners, intermediate, and advanced professionals. Participants are invited to join in five sessions that focus on quick gestures, long poses, and both costumed and nude models. Each session will include a demonstration that touches on fundamental techniques of life drawing. Your registration also includes one drink ticket.

About the Instructor:

Vivian Krishnan is a multimedia artist with works that cross the vast stage of storytelling, from designing costumes for theatrical characters to writing and illustrating diverse children’s books. She received her bachelors in Durango, CO focusing on Printmaking and Sculpture as well as earning her MFA at UIUC in Theatrical Design. Vivian is a life-long learner of many mediums and is excited to see how art continues to play a role at Allerton.

Figure Drawing

Led by: Vivian Krishnan

Mondays: February 26, March 4, 11, 18, 25

6:00-9:00pm

Library

Registration Deadline: February 19, 2024; 1 week prior to each subsequent class

Skill level: All Levels

Registration fee: $60/class OR $250/series

Course Description:

Draw from a live model through lightly instructed sessions. Open to all levels: beginners, intermediate, and advanced professionals. Participants are invited to join in five sessions that focus on quick gestures, long poses, and both costumed and nude models. Each session will include a demonstration that touches on fundamental techniques of life drawing. Your registration also includes one drink ticket.

About the Instructor:

Vivian Krishnan is a multimedia artist with works that cross the vast stage of storytelling, from designing costumes for theatrical characters to writing and illustrating diverse children’s books. She received her bachelors in Durango, CO focusing on Printmaking and Sculpture as well as earning her MFA at UIUC in Theatrical Design. Vivian is a life-long learner of many mediums and is excited to see how art continues to play a role at Allerton.

Figure Drawing

Led by: Vivian Krishnan

Mondays: February 26, March 4, 11, 18, 25

6:00-9:00pm

Library

Registration Deadline: February 19, 2024; 1 week prior to each subsequent class

Skill level: All Levels

Registration fee: $60/class OR $250/series

Course Description:

Draw from a live model through lightly instructed sessions. Open to all levels: beginners, intermediate, and advanced professionals. Participants are invited to join in five sessions that focus on quick gestures, long poses, and both costumed and nude models. Each session will include a demonstration that touches on fundamental techniques of life drawing. Your registration also includes one drink ticket.

About the Instructor:

Vivian Krishnan is a multimedia artist with works that cross the vast stage of storytelling, from designing costumes for theatrical characters to writing and illustrating diverse children’s books. She received her bachelors in Durango, CO focusing on Printmaking and Sculpture as well as earning her MFA at UIUC in Theatrical Design. Vivian is a life-long learner of many mediums and is excited to see how art continues to play a role at Allerton.

Beginning Weaving II

Led by: Sharon Bowles

Saturday-Sunday, April 6 & 7, 2024

9:00am-5:00pm both days (lunch break included)

Auditorium

Registration Deadline: April 3, 2024

Skill level: Beginner

Registration fee: $235

Course Description:

This 2-day intensive class will be a continuation of Beginning Weaving 1, but instead of teacher selection with everyone doing the same article, students will pick their own project, measure the warp, beam the warp, thread the heddles to their selected pattern, thread the reed, wind the bobbins and weave the project (table runner or mat, scarf, towel or other full size project).

For overnight lodging accommodations, call the Allerton Mansion front desk at 217-333-3287.

About the Instructor:

Sharon has been weaving for 33 years and teaching beginning weaving for almost 32 years. She was taught to weave in a one-on-one class and wove 2 table runners in 12 approximately 2-hour lessons, and she teaches the same method when she teaches Sharon has experience in weaving with silk, lace weaving, 8 shaft pattern weaving, parallel weaving, block weaves, and Shaker reproduction towels. She has taught many workshops and classes to weavers’ guilds in Florida, Ohio, and Champaign-Urbana. She earned her Journeyman certification from the Weavers Guild of Boston in 2021 and a master’s certification in April of 2022. Most recently, Sharon taught Beginning Weaving I at The Farms, and a 2-day workshop in 4 shaft patterns for the Champaign-Urbana Spinners and Weavers Guild.