To respond to the cancellation of our 2020 Graphic Medicine conference in Toronto, to combat the social isolation of pandemic-related lockdowns, and to support and promote community, the Graphic Medicine International Cooperative (GMIC) launched a free weekly virtual meet-up called “Drawing Together” on April 6.
We provided a Zoom link, a topic, and a group facilitator. Members of the world-wide Graphic Medicine community gathered to draw, support one another, and share. See links below to the first thirteen weekly sessions that ran until June 28. This page will serve as an ongoing archive of our sessions. Our intention is to create video posts to guide you through exercises from all the sessions.
NOTE: The Drawing Together steering committee has decided to go back to monthly meetings for the summer of 2021. Stay tuned for more information on upcoming sessions.
If you are already on the invitation list from previous sessions, you will automatically receive an invitation to all sessions unless you request to be unsubscribed. If you are not on the invitation list, and want to participate, email MK via her website to be added to the list.
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Session 1: “The Age of Covid-19” hosted by Susan Squier on 4/5/20
Session 2: “Animals” hosted by Shelley Wall on 4/12/20
Session 3: “Ancestors” hosted by Dana Walrath on 4/19/20
Session 4: “Masking and Un-Masking” hosted by Michael Green on 4/26/20
Session 5: “Cartographies of the Present” hosted by Ebru Ustundag on 5/3/20
Session 6: “Five Lives” hosted by MK Czerwiec on 5/10/20
Session 7: “Insects” hosted by Susan Squier on 5/17/20
Session 8: “Time” hosted by Shelley Wall on 5/24/20
Session 9: “Pandemic as Portal” hosted by Dana Walrath
Session 10: “Care” hosted by Ebru Ustundag on 6/7/20
Session 11: “Learning and Teaching” hosted by Alex Thomas on 6/14/20
Session 12: “Rituals” hosted by MK Czerwiec on 6/21/20
Session 13: “Talking to Ourselves” hosted by Michael Green on 6/28/20
You can view work from these sessions by searching for #DrawingTogetherGM on most social media platforms.
Cool! I’m definitely interested. 😀
I would love to join!
I was able to start joining the Drawing together program in July with the Listening session. By then the Corona Sequestering had had a very negative impact on my own art practice. I found the communal gathering extremely important. For one thing, by coincidence, if you believe in coincidence, it coincided with a very important personal breakthrough in resolving a troubling breech between me and my daughter. And that resolution had involved LISTENING. From then on I have only missed one time. I am so happy it will be happening more often! It brings people from so many places out of isolation and motivates creativity.