Desire Lines

Desire Lines is a a contemporary drawing course rooted in longing and love. If you're looking to cultivate consistent and deeply satisfying studio habits, this course is for you.

.In urban planning, desire lines are paths eroded by human and animal traffic. What begins as an off-the-beaten-path jaunt can become research into user experience and efficiency. As our feet hit the earth, our habitual preferences get embedded in the landscape. The more we walk a desired line, the more prominently it illustrates our behavior, our preferences, and our style.

Desire lines can also be tracked within an art practice. We may not always be aware of what we’re after, but the more consistently and desirously we work, the more authentically patterns emerge.

In this course students will produce a series of drawings and a habit-based foundation for an ongoing drawing practice. Through creative repetition, experimentation, and desire-driven analysis, students will gain insight into their unique ways of seeing, making, and incrementally evolving in drawing. In addition to in-person lectures and studio time, this course functions as an accountability group with weekly peer feedback and individualized assignments. It is designed for beginner to advanced artists of all media who are looking to integrate drawing into their practice and everyday life.