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Group Shows Catalog 2026

The 2025 Group Shows Catalog contains artwork from 3 different shows, Portrait Show, Anything but People, and Fashion Show. It contains 97 artwork submissions by 33 artists. It is one of our largest catalogs: 11 x 8.5 ” and 72 pages.

Available at any drawing session at Delavan Studios, Room 413, for $25 each. Buy one at your next visit to OFD.

Many other catalogs from previous OFD group shows are available too.

Saturday Morning Figure Drawing

Saturday, February 14, 10 am – 1 pm
Saturday, February 21, 10 am – 1 pm
etc…
Delavan Studios, room 4
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The drawing sessions start with 5 one minute gestures, and continues with 3 forty-five minutes poses.

The 1st forty-five minute pose will start soon after the end of the gestures. The rest of the poses will have long enough breaks to be able to start the 2nd & 3rd poses at the top of the hour.

Regular prices and rules apply.

All events subject to change.

Long Pose (nude)
Artwork by Gracie Vanhoven, January 2025

Sunday, February 15, 1 – 3 pm

Long Pose drawing sessions consist of 1 pose, with breaks for the model, for the entire 2 hr session. Long Pose (clothed) sessions are usually on the 2nd Sunday of the month, & Long Pose (nude) sessions are usually on the 3rd Sunday of the month. Check our calendar for the exact date each month.

More information about Long Pose sessions.
More information about Sunday Sessions.

Speed Drawing

Thursday, February 12, 2026, 7 – 9 pm
Room 413, Delavan Studios

$10

Speed drawing trains participants to capture the character of their partner. It is a new networking event for artists in the community.

As participants check in, they choose desks. Two people site at opposite sides of the desk. At 7 pm, anyone who doesn’t have a partner will be assigned one by the host.

Once the session begins, half the artists draw the person across the table from them, and half pose for 10 or 20 minutes. They are encouraged to get to know each other in the process. When the the time is up, partners will switch who draws and who poses.

When both people have drawn, one artist moves to the right, and one stays where they are.

Think of “Speed Dating” and you’ll get an idea of where the name comes from.

All events subject to change.

Wednesday on Sunday
Artwork by Paul Boatman, January 2026.

Sunday, February 22, 1 – 4 pm

Wednesday on Sunday follows the same series of poses as our regular Wednesday night Figure Drawing session.

More information about Sunday Sessions.

All events subject to change.

Still Life
Artwork by Christine Patsos, 2018

Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7 – 9 pm
room 413, Delavan Studios
$10 per session

This is the 2nd installment of Still Life sessions. Taylor Wood will host.

There will be no drawing session on Thursday, January 29.

All events subject to change

Fashion Show
Artwork by Lucie Wellner, 2025

We have moved the Group Show from the Fayetteville Library to the Manlius Library.

Reception:
Date: February 24, 2026
Where: The Story Book Room in the Manlius Library
Time: TBA

Address for the Manlius Library:
1 Arkie Albanese Ave, Manlius, NY

This show will come down at the end of February, & the artwork will be brought back to Delavan Studios in early March.

If you had a lot on artwork in the Fayetteville library, please check room 413 in the Delavan Studio for some of it, as it did not all make it to the Manlius Library.

Our next show in room 413, will start at the end of February / early March. Until then, we will have a show of Outsider Art.

All events subject to change.


This project is made possible through the CNY Arts Grants for Regional Arts and Cultural Engagement regrant program thanks to a New York State Senate Initiative supported by the NYS Legislature, the Office of the Governor and administered by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Open Figure Drawing, since 1989