Our April and May Drop-in Drawing sessions will be facilitated by museum staff and guest artist facilitator Larissa de Jesús Negrón and will be held in Gallery 210: Richard Serra’s Equal. In addition to self-guided drawing prompts, this session will feature short, artist-led demos/lessons throughout the evening. Drop-in Drawing takes place in conjunction with MoMA’s UNIQLO NYC Nights event, when the museum is open late on the first Friday of every month and admission is free for New Yorkers.
Explore artworks through drawing in this relaxed drop-in session for all ages. Materials and seating are provided. Participation is open to all, with no experience, ability, or reservations required. Drawing prompts will be available in English and Spanish.
Multidisciplinary artist Larissa De Jesús Negrón is interested in processing her life through the essential power of storytelling. Her practice and personal life are driven by self-discovery. In her recent work, finding presence through art making has been of top priority. Because exploring and experimenting with materials keeps her curious for more, she allows herself to embrace change throughout her diverse use of materials and conceptual thinking. This therapeutic process has become a pathway for the artist to have a spiritual relationship with her work. Her stylistically varied imagery is linked to the artist’s curiosity of the subconscious mind, similar to what the Surrealists explored in the late 1910s and early 1920s. With each piece, she implements automatism to access her life’s humorous, painful, and mundane moments, learned truisms, and symbolic memories from her upbringing in Puerto Rico.
Major funding is provided by the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.