443-Experimental Drawing
In Person | Available
Interested in loosening up your drawing practice? Spend some time experimenting with various
materials and techniques including: sightless contour and drawing while blindfolded. Use
traditional drawing utensils as well as twigs, yarns, pine needles, etcetera. Instructor will bring
an array of materials. Students may also bring their own.
Materials List
Drawing paper (minimum 11X14 in.) various pens, pencils, inks, twigs, anything that will make a
line, an object(s) to draw, eye covering: mask, bandana etc. Instructor will also have eye covers,
objects to draw and some drawing utensils.
Linda Mead
Linda Mead was born in Washington, DC, grew up in Northern Virginia and holds a
Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. She relocated to
Germany where she lived for 11 years before moving to Morristown, New Jersey in
2002. In 2007 she began etching at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.
Originally, Mead’s areas of concentration were jewelry and textile design. After spending
many years as a painter, she returned to working with metal, etching images in copper
plates and working primarily as a printmaker. Her work reflects a sense of unease
triggered by the precarious state of the world and the consequences of human behavior.
She had her first solo exhibition, Expand, Disrupt, Disperse, at Guttenberg Arts (2022),
Her group shows include: Nothing is Forever, Grover House Gallery, Caldwell, NJ
(2023), Made Here, Guttenberg Arts, (2021), “A New Century of War” Frontline Arts,
Branchburg NJ, (2017). In addition, she exhibited in group exhibits with the Book Arts
Roundtable (2011-2020). Her work also appears in Booked exhibition catalogs.
Mead received a 2024 fellowship in Printmaking, Drawing and Book Arts from the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts and was an artist-in-residence at Guttenberg Arts in
2021.