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, February 28, 10 am – 1 pm
Saturday, March 7, 10 am – 1 pm
etc…
Delavan Studios, room 413
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.
Sunday, March 1, 2026, 1 – 3 pm
Delavan Studios room 413
Themed Drawing sessions are the 1st Sunday of every month, except sometimes when the 1st Sunday is a holiday weekend.
Same prices & rules apply for all drawing sessions at Delavan Studios.
More information about our various Sunday sessions.
All events subject to change.
Thursday, March 5, 2025, 7 – 9 pm
Delavan Studios, room 413
$10 (normally $15)
The host will guide you through 2 hrs of gesture drawing.
All events subject to change.
Sunday, March 8, 2026, 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. Check our calendar for the exact date each month.
More information about Long Pose sessions.
All events subject to change.
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
room 413, Delavan Studios
$10 per session
Christine Patsos hosts a Portrait Group that meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month, now part of OFD’s $10 Thursdays. All are welcome to attend.
All events subject to change
We have moved the Group Show from the Fayetteville Library to the Manlius Library.
Reception:
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Where: The Story Book Room in the Manlius Library
Time: 6 – 7:30 pm
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.
Sunday, March 1 – Thursday, June 18, 2026
Bring New Artwork on Sunday, March 1, 1 – 3 pm
Open Figure Drawing is going back to basics for this show: the artwork must be from a nude model.
Everyone is welcome to bring in any figurative artwork from within the last 12 months. You can start bringing in artwork on Sunday, March 1, pick out a spot, and hang it yourself. The deadline is whenever the room is full.
Please read the rules below.
Rules:
- Anyone who has joined us for a drawing session in Delavan Studios can submit 2D artwork.
Artwork must be from within the last 12 months.
It should not have been shown in a previous Group Show with OFD. - How To Enter. Submit an entry form with your artwork (entry forms coming soon).
- Deliver artwork to Delavan Studios on Sunday, March 1, 1 – 3 pm, during the Themed Drawing session. You can submit as much artwork as will fit on 2 cables using our hanging system. If you have smaller artwork, you will be able to fit more pieces.
The show ends on Thursday, June 18. We will be hanging a new show on June 21, so do not delay in taking your artwork home. You can start taking it home on Saturday, June 20, 10 am – 1 pm, during Saturday Morning Figure Drawing, or Sunday, June 21, 1 – 3 pm, during Long Pose (nude). - Identify your artwork. Artwork must have identification and contact information on the back. We will have labels that you can post next to your artwork to identify it.
- Artwork must be framed and ready to hang from our hanging system.
- Work can be for sale, but does not have to be. Open Figure Drawing takes a 10% commission on all sales.