A Summer Survey:
Intro to Pen & Ink
Instructed by
Katie Baker
Schedule:
Monday-Thursday, 3-6pm
July 14-17, 2025
Registration Deadline: July 11 2025
[ REGISTER HERE ]
Description:
The pinpoint contact that you make with a pen to the page is one of the most personal and focused moments you can have with drawing. It requires of you intimate attention as you articulate the edges you record. The immediate response of a line on a page is the trace of your close communion with your subject and contains the mark of your experience as well as your description of a form. The permanence of ink requires a greater amount of trust in one's hand and in one's eyes, and in our ability to make a mark and let it be on the page. It's also an opportunity to look and take time to decipher what it is in front of you that matters most, and to develop tactics for addressing those shapes or contours.
This class will cover the following topics:
• The behaviors and effects of Ink expressed through line and mark
• Using a sensitive and varied line to articulate form
• Using hatching and cross-hatching methods to suggest shifting planes and values
• Moving fluidly between describing the edges and space in a drawing
• Training yourself to make confident marks
• Practicing visual editing, discovering which details and contours are most important
• Coping with and adapting to your mistakes
Fee:
$200
Minimum Enrollment: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 12
Materials list: (link to printable PDF)
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Level of Study:
All levels are welcome! Intro to Pen and Ink is geared toward participants early in their drawing education, but can challenge even the most accomplished artists. In this class, participants will have many opportunities to test out new techniques and tools and receive feedback in a supportive classroom environment.
Questions? Please contact Education and Studio Program Manager, Adam Mysock at mysock@manifestdrawingcenter.org with any questions about this list and/or course.
LOCATION: Unless otherwise specified, all courses are hosted at Manifest's new facility at 'M1' in Clifton at 3464 Central Parkway (see map and directions below). Manifest's new facility provides multiple studio classrooms, private lesson space, a darkroom, a film processing room, and a multi-purpose lecture and class meeting space as well as on-site parking, grounds, and exterior spaces in which to relax, discuss, and make art. The studios are outfitted with professional equipment, furniture, and study aids.
Map to Manifest's M1 Studios | Studio Calendar | Darkroom Calendar
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Katie Baker
Katie Baker
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About the instructor:
Katie Baker is an artist working and maintaining a studio in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has worked with thousands of contemporary artworks by artists from all across the United States and beyond while serving as Senior Exhibition Coordinator and Curatorial Assistant at Manifest Gallery. She teaches at the Manifest Drawing Center.
Her practice is rooted in the intimacy of observational drawing. The works, through imagery and material, become locales for shared experience of heightened states and moments of ecstatic, disorienting, tactile awareness.
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