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Unique art school overtakes Dahl |
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Friday, 15 February 2013 15:55 |
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Every month more than 3,500 artists, web designers, cartoonists, graffiti artists, tattoo artists and hipsters gather in nearly 100 cities to sketch sub-cultural models. Rapid City is now one of those cities taking part in Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School.
Black Hills FOX reporter Tessa Thomas attended Thursday night's class to bring you this story. Arts Education Co-Director at the Dahl Arts Center Naomi Even-Aberle says, "It's like a traditional drawing class without as much as the tradition. It's more urban, it's more edgy, we really want models that have big over the top personas that we can put on stage and really have a little bit more fun with it. It's supposed to be an artist community where artists can come together." Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School kicked off at the Dahl Arts Center last night with a theme of zombies titled "Love Bites." Dr. Sketchy's is described as an alternative drawing movement that was started in New York in 2005. Desy Schoenewies started Dr. Sketchy's here in Rapid City to bring art out of its traditional form and bring the community together. Local Leader Desy Schoenewies says, "What Dr. Sketchy's does is, it makes it a much more of a community event where people are interacting with each other, they're looking at each other's drawings and just having fun with drawing and of course we have fun models that, from different performance groups that want to tell the world a little bit about their own performances and about their own personas and basically have a dialogue with other artists and just another group to show off what they do." Obviously Dr. Sketchy's is not your normal sketch class, in this class you only get a certain amount of time for each pose the model does. Even-Aberle says, "The times start pretty frequently, like 30 seconds, 5 of them, then they go to minutes and 2 minutes and they progressively get longer, so we're doing 5 minute poses, 10 minute poses, half an hour poses, the longer the poses go the artists get more time to work on the detail, make sure the proportions are correct or for whatever style they're working on, so it's a progression from short to long with more detail." And both Even-Aberle and Schoenewies say the artists get a lot out of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. Schoenewies says, "Meeting new people, looking at art in a different form, in a different matter and when I first was involved with the Dr. Sketchy's in San Francisco, I made life long friends at Dr. Sketchy's and so I think it's a way of taking art and rather then making it a competitive thing, but a cooperative thing and really just kind of enjoying the community of art." Even-Aberle says, "One, they get practice for artists that are trying to do art everyday you need to continually practice, otherwise your skills get rusty just like anything else, they also get community engagement. They get to meet other artists that are doing different things, they can share their creativity and they make those network connections that you so need in a huge arts community like this and then they just get a fun time." Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School will take place every second Thursday of each month from 6 to 9 p.m. The class is offered to adults ages 21 and up and the cost is $10 for each session. In Rapid City, I'm Tessa Thomas, Black Hills FOX News Next month's theme at Dr. Sketchy's School is "Steampunk." |
