I founded the Center for Drawn Togetherness with the goal of exploring how drawing could foster connections between design students. Myself and a group of student collaborators worked under this name for about a year, planning and facilitating a variety of drawing events and workshops for the Communication Design department at Texas State University.
In this 2024 exhibition, we had a chance to imagine what the Center would look like if it were a physical institution. The finished gallery space featured 2D drawn “furniture,” a help desk, and souvenir mugs that student collaborators designed for the project.
The exhibition hosted a series of three interlocking illustration events. In the Money Making Workshop, participants designed a “currency” for the Center and learned how to print it on the risograph. Participants could earn this “currency” by participating in a Drawing Concert in which they responded to daily collaborative drawing prompts. In the final event, participants could spend currency in a student-run illustration pop-up shop.