Event

Off-site Teacher Workshop @ NCMA W-S: Making Morning on “How to Draw the Face”

When
Start: 05/16/26 10:30 am
End : 05/16/26 12:30 pm
Where
NCMA WS @ 4th Street
Cost
$4 Members, $5 Nonmembers
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Two pencil-drawn portraits placed on a desk. The portraits show teenage girls’ faces and show shading techniques and an understanding of proportion.
Examples of Student Work
Photo: Stephen Lursen
Examples of student work created during an observational drawing unit

Join us for a morning workshop on “How to Draw the Face” at NCMA Winston-Salem’s new downtown gallery space in Winston-Salem. Stephen Lursen, a middle school art educator showcased in the NCMA’s Creative Lives of Educators exhibition, will lead this program. Stephen will guide artists through the process of drawing the face step-by-step, while also explaining how he teaches this to middle school students within the framework of an Observational Drawing Unit, culminating in a student self-portrait project. You don’t have to be a teacher to attend, though visual art educators will gain access to the entire unit as a resource, with lessons laid out chronologically and growing in difficulty, leading students to learn the necessary skills to go from zero to completing a self-portrait project.

 

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