2024 NYC Drawing the Dance Art Show! Sangeeta Yesley, Creative Performances

About This Show

NYC Drawing the Dance Art Show is derived from the NYC Drawing the Dance Workshops, organized by Creative Performances and hosted & presented by Dixon Place Theater. These workshops are one of a kind. The artists create their art work with moving dancers as their models.

This Art Show showcases selected art works created in the workshops organized during 2024.

Opening Reception of 2024 Art Show :
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2024
Place: Dixon Place Gallery, 161A Chrystie Street, NY 10002.

Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Art show will remain open until January 5th, 2025, with appointment visits after the opening night.

The artworks are for SALE! Available perfectly in time to buy a unique Christmas gift for that special person. All proceeds go to the artist. More info on Instagram.  @nycdrawingthedance

Featuring Artists:
Alexis Marino, Anita Rundles, Christine Liu, Elena Barbashova, Janet Morgan, Marie Roberts, Melissa Joskow, Selen İmamoğlu, Shireen Soliman, Veronika Doljenkova, Wendy Beth Jackelow.

The artworks on display feature these amazing dancers who modeled and danced in our workshops this year: ❤
Camila Schäefer Rodrigues, Joy Chen, Tori Hey, Hovie Nguyen, Carol Trindade, Ishita Bhattacharya, Kristina Kalabacas.

Follow us in Instagram: @nycdrawingthedance
Website: 
https://nycdrawingthedance.wordpress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nycdrawingthedance/

FAQ:

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event? Here is the transportation link to Dixon Place: http://dixonplace.org/about-us/location/Delancey and Essex Municipal Parking Garage on 105-113 Essex Street & 112-120 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002, is very affordable and is about 5 blocks from Dixon Place, about 7 min walk.

Thank you for your interest. See you at the Opening Reception.

Can’t attend the Opening Reception but want to buy an artwork?  Please email to – creativeperformances.nyc@gmail.com

About the Artists

Alexis Marino
(TBA)

Anita Rundles 
Anita is a Brooklyn, NY based illustrator and fine artist originally from New England. She graduated with a BFA in illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her work is influenced by the study of fashion illustration and her love of impressionist and other late 19th century figurative art. She likes to think her work lies where fashion meets fine art.
As an illustrator she has worked with many high profile clients on a variety of projects. She often works events in the NYC area as a live portrait illustrator, and teaches watercolor at The Fashion Institute of Technology.
Instagram: @anitarundles_art

Christine Liu 
Christine Liu is an illustrator/designer/surface pattern designer/storyteller, a lifelong New Yorker, born and raised in Chinatown, NYC. She loves illustrating with digital mediums for illustrations as well as traditional mediums for live drawing events. You can find out more about her and her work at dittofunky.com .
Instagram: @dittofunkysketch123

Elena Barbashova
(TBA)

Janet Morgan
Janet Morgan has created gods and goddesses and children’s books and giant puppets and stage sets. She’s a belly dancer and loves to draw dancers, their movements and bodies so alive and focused. The last few years she fell in love with pastel on black paper, working backwards from dark to light and making it up as she goes along. She wishes to thank the dancers for their dedication and love of movement that makes them such a joy to draw.
Instagram: @janetmorganarts

Marie Roberts
Marie Roberts is a painter, a sixth generation New Yorker and lives and works in NYC. She holds an MFA from Queens College, CUNY and is a Professor of Art at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Roberts believes drawing to be the root of art and works from observation and invention. For 25 years she was show painter to the Coney Island Circus Sideshow. Drawing from performers onstage is a root of her banner work and she treasures the opportunity to draw from the dancers working with Creative Performances.
Instagram: @mariearoberts

Melissa Joskow
Melissa Joskow is the graphic design and communications manager at PEN America. She holds an MA in art history, renaissance studies, and curatorship from the Warburg Institute in London, and a BA from Wesleyan University in studio art and government. In addition to design, Melissa sketches and paints in a variety of media. You can find more of her work at www.melissa-joskow.squarespace.com; Instagram: @mcjosk

Selen İmamoğlu
Selen Imamoglu is an interior and experiential designer based in New York. As a storyteller, she constantly explores new ways to forge connections between people and feelings through art and design. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings and small details in everyday life, she loves observing, reflecting and capturing the moment across diverse mediums.
Instagram: @selen.imm

Shireen Soliman
(TBA)

Veronika Doljenkova 
An artist and a passionate world traveler, Veronika has painted in many locations around the world and has been an artist in residence at Upernavik Art Museum, Upernavik, Greenland and Glen Arbor Art Association / Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Glen Arbor, MI. Her artwork was exhibited in New York City, across the US and online, and her illustrations were published in Cell, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, and Conservation Matters magazine. She really enjoys on-location sketching, and, as a recreational dancer, especially likes drawing and painting different performance artists such as musicians and dancers.
Instagram: @nycsketchartist

Wendy Beth Jackelow
(TBA)

about the organizer

Sangeeta is an independent producer of arts and entertainment events with a background in dance.  She loves producing hybrid events exploring relationships between dance and other art forms. She is the Founder/Director of Creative Performances.  Her projects include –  NYC Drawing the Dance Workshop, StylePointe Fashion Show and Dixon Connect – Networking for everyone creative. She is a dance curator in Dixon Place, NYC, curating ‘Fast Forward’, ‘8 in Show’ and ‘Dance Bloc NYC’ Festival and also ’30-30-30′, a End of Year Dance Benefit. Sangeeta strives to create platform for early career artists in NYC helping them advance in their artistic journey.

Opening Reception:
SAT DEC 7 2024 5 PM

FREE.  PLEASE RSVP.

(Art show remains open until Sunday, Jan 5, 2025)

Estimated Runtime
2 hours.

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