2023 Royal Drawing Residency London, UK
2023 UC Davis Manetti Shrem International Artist Residency at The Royal Drawing School, London, England, UK
In fall 2023, I had had the pleasure to be 1 of 4 visiting artists to attend the Royal Drawing School in London as part of the Manetti Shrem Museum International Supported Artist Residency & Scholarship.
About the Residency Program:
The Manetti Shrem International Residency Scholarship at the Royal Drawing School invites four gifted and dedicated artist who graduated from UC Davis (In the last 5 Years) to join at the Royal Drawing School for a supported residency each fall (September-December). Artists who receive the scholarship must show evidence of observational drawing in their practice. The purpose of the Scholarship and Artist Residency is to help support emerging artists and to nurture drawing as their foundation skill as they attend and learn alongside postgraduate students studying in the Royal Drawing School's MA level program. Courses are taught by a distinguished faculty of over 75 practicing artists. The Scholars curate their own program choosing from over different 60+ drawing courses, drawing out of house in London’s streets and green spaces, life drawing, drawing from art in major museums and galleries, as well as intaglio printmaking courses. The artist are provided with a shared studio space alongside Royal Drawing School, Drawing Year Students at Space Studios. In addition to ten weeks in London, artists complete the residency with a two-week residency at Dumfries House in Scotland.