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 Collective (GMIC) launched a free virtual meet-up called “Drawing Together.”
We provide a Zoom link, a topic, and a group facilitator. Members of the world-wide Graphic Medicine community gather to draw, support one another, and share. This page will serve as an ongoing archive of our sessions.
Our event takes place the last Sunday of the month at 1pm ET.
If you are not on the email invitation list, and want to participate, sign up here.
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
Drawing Together #48: Sensory Perception Made Visual with Heidi Breuer
You can view work from these sessions by searching for #DrawingTogetherGM on most social media platforms.
WE’VE OUTGROWN THIS PAGE! ARCHIVE PAGE TWO IS HERE.
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.
Thank you Earla Dawn Legault for hosting the graphicmedicine.org draw together this morning. It was hard, powerful, and hopeful. I kept trying not to remember my dad because he caused so much trauma in my childhood and life. But he wouldn’t get out of my head. I want to postthe 4 panel comic I drew from your prompts, but not sure where I can.
You can post your artwork on social media with the hashtag #DrawingTogetherGM