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- EIN 13-2887872
- info@drawingcenter.org
- (212) 219-2166
- 35 Wooster St Ground Floor New York NY 10013 USA
- www.drawingcenter.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Visual Arts
Mission: The drawing center was established to demonstrate the significance and diversity of drawings throughout history, to juxtapose work by master figures with work by emerging and under-recognized artists, and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture.
Programs: The drawing center attracts more than 35,000 visitors a year, including local audiences, artists and arts professionals, students, and tourists from across america and abroad. The organization's annual exhibition program comprises nine to twelve group and solo shows featuring work in the drawing medium by emerging, under-recognized, established, and historical artists. Each of the center's exhibitions is accompanied by an issue of the affordable drawing papers publication series. The drawing center's website attracts more than 232,000 visits annually, and serves as a clearing house for information on drawing as a medium, including capsule reviews of other institution's exhibitions and a lively blog. Services to artists are provided through an initiative called open sessions, which serves 53 artists annually. It provides them the opportunity, with the support of drawing center curatorial staff, to develop programming in the center's space. During the course of the open sessions 2 year program, staff curates group exhibitions from among these artists. Audiences are further engaged through a range of public programs, including gallery talks, lectures, panel discussions, and literary readings. The center's education programs include free on-site and in-school programs for students in grades k-12 and an internship program for college students.