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Fashion Show
Artwork by Lucie Wellner, 2025

POSTPONED:
The Deadline and Reception have been postponed due to lack of artwork and lack of a speaker for the reception.

a Group Show of our Collective Works

Deadline: Wednesday September 24, 2025, 7 – 10 pm, during Open Figure Drawing

Bring your artwork to room 413, Delavan Studios, on or before the deadline!

Reception: Saturday September 27, 2025, 4 – 6 pm

All Open Figure Drawing participants are welcome to contribute to our Group Show!

Bring your artwork that has something to do with Fashion.

Please read the rules below.

Rules:

  1. Anyone who has attended Open Figure Drawing in the last year may submit art, regardless of when the art was made.
  2. How to Enter
    Submit an entry form with your artwork. Your artwork cannot have been part of a previous group show.
  3. Deliver artwork to Delavan Studios by Wednesday, September 24, between 7 – 10 pm, during Open Figure Drawing’s session. You can submit up to 3 pieces. Please check out our hanging system to make sure it works with your frames. If you can’t make if on September 24, you can deliver your artwork sooner. Contact us if that doesn’t work for you.
    The is moving to the Fayetteville Library at the end of December. The artwork will come back to room 413 in early February.
  4. Identify your artwork. Include your name and phone number (or e-mail or street address). Optionally, include a title, media, and size information. We also suggest signing and dating your work.
  5. Artwork must be framed and ready to hang from our hanging system.
  6. Work can be for sale, but does not have to be. Open Figure Drawing takes a 10% commission on all sales.
  7. Optional: Package your artwork.
    Since we will not be transporting the artwork for this show, it is up to you if you think it needs packaging to deliver it safely to us. Please take all packaging with you after you deliver your artwork.

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.

Gesture Drawing

Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 7 – 9 pm
Delavan Studios, room 413

$10 (normally $15)

The host will guide you through 2 hrs of gestures.

If it is successful, it may turn into a monthly event on the 1st Tuesday of every month.

Regular prices apply.

All events subject to change.

Long Pose (clothed)
Artwork by Doug Roussin, September 2025

Sunday, October 12, 2025, 1 – 3 pm

On Sunday, October 12, we have a Long Pose (clothed) session.

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.

All events subject to change.

Long Pose (nude)
Artwork by Taylor Wood, September 2025

Sunday, October 19, 1 – 3 pm

Long Pose drawing sessions consist of 1 pose, with breaks for the model, for the entire 2 hr session.

Long Pose (nude) sessions are usually on the 3rd Sunday of the month, & Long Pose (clothed) sessions are usually on the 2nd Sunday of the month.

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

Open Figure Drawing, since 1989