ABOUT THE CONCEPTUAL DRAWING STUDIO

As CDS develops Crews will host a series of workshops for the public and invited guests. CDS will function like an office break-room, a drawing studio (is it a drawing studio?), a TV production studio, and a research library. Crews says of the project, “I think of drawing as a tool for conceptualizing, a mode for communication, a format for teaching, a template for remembering, and an important aspect of my documentation process. I never think about making pictures as much as I think about why a picture gets made; and I don’t want to learn how to “draw” a building as much as I want to learn what’s inside the building. So I propose a new temporary school, archive, and library that rejects the concept of mastery and emphasizes the flexibility of drawing as an idea.”

ABOUT ROZ CREWS

​Roz Crews was the Artist in Residence (AIR) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2017- 2018) where she founded the Center for Undisciplined Research, a nine-month public artwork sited on campus as a tool for people to critically examine what and how they want to learn. Her projects experiment with alternative modes of education and question the ways institutions educate people to become “engaged citizens.” She was the AIR at Portland State University’s Housing and Residence Life Department (2014-2017). She is a 2017 recipient of the Precipice Grant supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Calligram Foundation in Portland, Oregon, and she has recently exhibited solo projects at the New Genre Arts Festival at Living Arts in Tulsa Oklahoma, Corner Office in Richmond Virginia, the MK Gallery in Portland Oregon, Etiquette in Santa Fe New Mexico, and the Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin Germany. She received her MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State (2017), and she holds a BA in Public Archaeology and Anthropology from New College of Florida (2012).

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

SATURDAY WORKSHOP SERIES
TAUGHT BY ROZ CREWS
All workshops located at 8836 North Lombard, Portland Oregon.
Feel free to be in touch if you’d like to schedule a workshop for your group, class, or friends before July 8, 2018, c.rozalyn@gmail.com.

DOG AUDIENCE DRAWING WORKSHOP
Saturday June 16, 1-3PM
In homage to my childhood drawing practice, this workshop will focus exclusively on drawing dogs. We will discuss personal techniques for drawing different dog breeds as we prepare to make an expansive audience of dogs to be part of the TV documentary set at CDS. We will make life-size cardboard dogs using paint and other drawing tools. All drawings produced during this workshop will be part of the CDS installation, and participants can pick up their dog at the closing event on July 6, 2018. Free workshop for all ages with materials provided, and the workshop space is ADA accessible.

DRAWING DRAWINGS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Saturday June 23, 1-3PM
We will meet at CDS where everyone can choose their preferred drawing supplies, and then, we will splinter off into the landscape of St. Johns to make drawings of drawings around the neighborhood. All of the drawings from this workshop will be compiled into a large collaborative piece as a portrait of the neighborhood—on display at CDS until July 8, 2018. Free workshop for all ages with materials provided, and we will be moving throughout the neighborhood.

ANALYZING DRAWINGS BY CHILDREN
Saturday June 30, 1-3PM
In this workshop we will analyze and discuss a series of drawings made by children—the goal of this workshop is to begin to understand the differences between drawings made by children and “child-like drawings” made by adults. Please feel free to bring a drawing made by a child you know or by you as a child or by you if you are a child. When do people stop being children anyway? Free workshop for all ages with materials provided, and the workshop space is ADA accessible.

TV SHOW DOCUMENTARY SCREENING + CDS CLOSING EVENT
Friday July 6, closing celebration 6-8PM and screening 8-9PM
As part of my CDS research process, I’m producing a no-budget, artist-organized, art-historical video essay that features people talking about their experiences with drawing as a form of communication in their everyday life. We will host a celebratory event to honor the research that happened as part of the Conceptual Drawing Studio throughout the month, and we will screen the documentary in whatever form it is in.


ARCHIVES AT THE CONCEPTUAL DRAWING STUDIO

Roz’s Personal Drawing Archive
This is a collection of drawings I made between 1992 and 2018.

Drawings by Friends of Roz
There are several drawings in this collection gifted to me by friends; featuring work by artists like Nico Mazza, Milo Moyer-Battick, Jeffrey Alan Scudder, and Suzanne Crews.

Archive of Expanded Drawing Practices (related to daily life)
This growing and living archive represents drawings that show a commitment to “drawing as a method for communication.” These drawings shift the expectation about what it means to “draw from life.” As a whole, this collection shows how people conceive of drawing as part of their “everyday lives,” and it rejects the notion of mastery as a marker of value.

To contribute a drawing (on loan to the temporary physical archive, forever in the digital archive of CDS), please email me at c.rozalyn@gmail.com, and I will send you a copy of the lending agreement.