Drawing Meetups With Jackie Hoving and Norm Paris

The Church will host a series of communal drawing sessions led by artists and professors Jackie Hoving and Norm Paris on Sundays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The dates are October 12, November 2, November 16, December 7 and December 28.

Admission is $5 per session. Members of The Church may attend for free with an RSVP. Participants are encouraged to bring a sketchbook, graphite or colored pencils and/or pens. (Charcoal, paints and markers are not permitted.) The sessions take place in the main gallery and offer the option to draw the surroundings, people or other scenes in a relaxed, meditative atmosphere. Tables and chairs will be available, and some basic paper and pencils will be provided.

Hoving, based in Sag Harbor and Brooklyn, is a curator and educator who has exhibited widely, including solo shows at Ripon College and Rebekah Tempelton Gallery, and has shown work at the Brooklyn Museum, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Hilbert Raum Berlin and the Drawing Museum in Sweden. She teaches at Pratt Institute and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Paris, also based in Sag Harbor and Brooklyn, is an artist, curator and professor who has mounted solo shows at venues including Transmitter Gallery, Proposition and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Jewish Museum in New York. He teaches at RISD and previously at Yale School of Art and was a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in printmaking/drawing/book arts.

The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor. For details, visit thechurchsagharbor.org.