Take a Seat, Draw a Chair

Take a Seat, Draw a Chair

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251 N Spruce St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101 United States

Davis Gallery

All levels

5/9/2024 (one day)

4:00 PM-6:00 PM EDT on Th

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Seating Assignment: Women in Contemporary Chairmaking and Craft Education, our current exhibition in the Davis Gallery features 14 chairs by 15 contemporary women artists who specialize in furniture making and view education as a core component of their practice.

Come make the most of this first-of-its-kind exhibition with a sketching session in the gallery -- Take a Seat, Draw a Chair -- hosted by Ella Coyne. Inspired by Salem College students, and their illustrations of chairs from the SIDE Chair Library, we hope this informal event will encourage deep looking and playful illustrations. Bring your own pencils and sketchbooks. Drawing benches and boards will be provided.

All levels of experience are welcome + registration open to the community! The event is free, with a $10 suggested donation.

After the sketching session, join Rebecca Juliette-Duex, exhibition curator and 2023 Gondring Resident in Woodworking for a Q + A and Exhibition Tour of Seating Assignment. 6 - 7pm in Sawtooth's Davis Gallery. 

Read more about the exhibition and see it before it closes on Saturday, May 11th!

Coyne, Ella

Ella Coyne is a frequent face in the arts of Winston-Salem. She works as a front desk assistant, woodworking intern, and youth art camp instructor at Sawtooth School for Visual Arts and is the Gallery and Artists Services Fellow at the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Ella is also a practicing artist who focuses her work on material exploration. She is an alumni of the Visual Arts program at UNCSA and studied Craft and Material studies at VCU before returning home to North Carolina to complete her degree at UNCG studying Sculpture and Ceramics. She continues to make art at Sawtooth in ceramics, woodworking, printmaking, and more.