KINGSTON, NY — A family got creative on Saturday at the Regional Arts Workers’ Authority’s Energy Square.
Families flocked to DRAW’s air-conditioned storefront space to escape the scorching heat of the 1990s, participate in art projects, and take home crayons or a free emergency drawing kit to draw anything. I stepped in.
“It’s stable all day long and everyone is drawing and having fun,” says DRAW founder and former Kingston High School teacher Lara Giordano.
All the walls are made of paper for people to pick up and paint, put together a collage from the collage station, paint from recycled newspapers, or stock the pink refrigerator with food drawings. It was covered.
Even the windows were open canvases with images such as airplanes and bees.
Yet another station displayed a simulated tree stump promoting an idea for a project in an Easter egg.
In one corner was the DRAW-A-TRON drafting machine created by Kaya Keller, a fine arts student at SUNY New Paltz and a high school graduate from Kingston. The machine offered monsters, animals, objects, and “random” pictures at the push of a button, and the images spat out of slots.
“We built it in about three months,” says Keller.
At another station, Dezha King from Kingston, who works as an assistant teacher in a regular class at DRAW, was making wire drawings.
“I love to paint, but to be honest, there are a lot of things I’ve never done,” she said.
Alyssa Gugutlis of Kingston was helping her nephew Dexter Hayett, 5, with watercolors. She teaches children from her 3rd grade through her 5th grade in her DRAW Saturday class. “We work with different art methods, different mediums, different practices,” she said.
One of DRAW’s artists and teachers, Jocelyn Bergen, was working with Maxine Leu at the Paper Art Station. Bergen specializes in paper art and bookbinding, and from one sheet of paper she was showing visitors how to make a small book of eight pages.
“I love supporting the community,” she said.
Leu said he loves helping out with eco-friendly print and sculpture projects during open studio sessions.
“I like picking up trash and making things,” she said.
Artists Maxine Leu (L) and Jocelyn Bergen worked at the Regional Art Workers Authority DRAW-A-THON’s paper art station at Energy Square in midtown Kingston on Saturday, August 6, 2022.
Artist Jocelyn Bergen works on an origami art project at the Regional Arts Workers Authority DRAW-A-THON at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston, Saturday, August 6, 2022 (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
SUNY New Paltz student Kaya Keller demonstrated her work DRAW-A-TRON at the Regional Arts Workers’ Office DRAW-A-THON on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston. (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
At the Regional Arts Workers’ Office DRAW-A-THON on Saturday, August 6, 2022, at Energy Square in midtown Kingston, UNY New Paltz student Kaya Keller took a look at her creation of DRAW-A-TRON. Request a random draw (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
SUNY New Paltz student Kaya Keller demonstrated her work DRAW-A-TRON at the Regional Arts Workers’ Office DRAW-A-THON on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston. (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
Free crayon and paper ’emergency drawing kits’ provided at Regional Art Workers’ Authority DRAW-A-THON on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
Cabinet of Curiosities Station (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman) at Local Arts Workers Authority DRAW-A-THON, Energy Square, Midtown Kingston, Saturday, August 6, 2022.
Paintings for the superhero section on the wall of the Regional Arts Workers Authority DRAW-A-THON at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston, Saturday, August 6, 2022 (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
A pet portrait hangs on the mantle of the Regional Arts Workers Authority DRAW-A-THON at Energy Square in midtown Kingston, Saturday, August 6, 2022 (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
Lara Giordano, director of the Regional Arts and Labor Department and former Kingston High School teacher, shared her drawing ideas at DRAW-A-THON, held at DRAW space in Energy Square in midtown Kingston on Saturday, August 8. The Easter egg show was dispensed with stumps offering June 6, 2022 (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
Easter eggs were distributed from the stumps at the DRAW-A-THON division of regional art workers at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston on Saturday, August 6, 2022.
Even the windows were open canvases at the Regional Art Workers’ Authority’s DRAW-A-THON, held at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston on Saturday, August 6, 2022 (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
Another panel was filled with works inspired by artist Keith Hennig at the Regional Arts Workers’ Office DRAW-A-THON on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston (Brian Hubert , Daily Freeman).
Kingston’s Alyssa Gougoutris teaches grades 3-5 in her Community Arts Workers class. Midtown, Saturday, August 6, 2022. She is helping her nephew Dexter Hayett, 5, paint watercolors at her DRAW’s DRAW-A-THON at Energy Her Square in Kingston. increase.
Another panel was filled with works inspired by artist Keith Hennig at the Regional Arts Workers’ Office DRAW-A-THON on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston (Brian Hubert , Daily Freeman).
Collage submitted wall Saturday, August 6, 2022 to the DRAW-A-THON Department of Regional Art Workers in Energy Square, Midtown Kingston (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
Collage submitted wall Saturday, August 6, 2022 to the DRAW-A-THON Department of Regional Art Workers in Energy Square, Midtown Kingston (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
Paintings on the wall of the Regional Arts Workers Authority DRAW-A-THON in Energy Square, Midtown Kingston, Saturday, August 6, 2022 (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
Paintings on the wall of the Regional Arts Workers Authority DRAW-A-THON in Energy Square, Midtown Kingston, Saturday, August 6, 2022 (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
A full-sized pink refrigerator was covered in food paintings at the Regional Arts Workers Authority’s DRAW-A-THON in Midtown Kingston’s Energy Square on Saturday, August 6, 2022. (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
The panel provided artists with the opportunity to draw their favorite foods at DRAW-A-THON in the Regional Art Workers category on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at Energy Square in Midtown Kingston (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman).
Collage Supplies (Brian Hubert, Daily Freeman) at Regional Art Workers Office DRAW-A-THON, Energy Square, Midtown Kingston, Saturday, August 6, 2022.
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