The Drawing Foundation invites you to ON DRAWINGS 2025. Join us in New York City on November 6th and 7th for two full days of events and conversations among curators, collectors, conservators, and artists focused on historical, modern, and contemporary drawings.

Registration is required for all events and begins on October 1.

ON DRAWINGS events are available only to MEMBERS of The Drawing Foundation.

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FULL EVENT PROGRAM

Exhibition Tour of Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena
Led by Olivia Shao, Burger Collection and TOY Meets Art Curator, The Drawing Center

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Study Center visit focused on the drawings of Claes Oldenburg and
Exhibition Tour of the installation Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life
Led by Antonia Pocock, Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art
and Eli Harrison, Curatorial Fellow, Sondra Gilman Study Center, Whitney Museum of American Art

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Study Center visit focused on highlights of the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of European drawings
Led by Lisa Small, Senior Curator, European Art, Brooklyn Museum

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Beyond Boundaries: Mapmaking
Even in the age of satellite images, GPS, and Google Maps, mapping remains a drawn act—raising questions of orientation, imagination, and belonging. This program explores maps – their making, their functions, and their repurposing – focusing on mapmaking as a hand-drawn delineation of place and boundaries, and how artists and scholars expand on mapmaking traditions to suggest new ways of seeing and placing ourselves. From early hand-drawn maps to the tools and techniques that render mapmaking possible, from the juxtaposition of distinct histories of movement to the creation of new worlds, this panel brings together speakers with vastly different perspectives to reflect on the history of drawing maps and consider how mapping—past and present—shapes our understanding of place and invites us to draw it anew.

Presented in partnership with the Conservation Center, NYU IFA

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Study Center visit focusing drawings by Surrealist woman artists from the collection
Led by Samantha Friedman, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA

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Exhibition Tour of Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson
Led by Jennifer Farrell, Jordan Schnitzer Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Exhibition Tour of Renoir Drawings
Led by Rebecca Pollak, Associate Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
and Sarah Lees, Research Associate, The Morgan Library & Museum

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We are grateful to our members, partners, supporters, and Master Drawings New York, whose contributions help to make these events possible.