Renee Reizman graciously invited me to be a guest facilitator for her Disability Drawing Club last month and it was awesome. LA folks, I highly recommend it! Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a skilled artist to join in the fun. She brings in a bunch of supplies to share. There are drawing and idea prompts and great conversations.
The next Disability Drawing Club is on Tuesday, July 9 at 7:00pm. Note that this is their first weeknight session, and they hope it brings in more members from our host, Groundfloor.
New: Renee has added an optional!! donation ticket. All donations go back to the Guest Facilitator!
7/9 Guest - Vanessa Santos
Vanessa Santos (born raised in L.A.) is an Indigenous (Yaqui, Mexica, Kizh, Apache, Hopi), Disabled Interdisciplinary artist working primarily within the mediums of weaving, ceramics, illustration, moving image, sound, painting, writing, eco-disability advocacy and the mystic/ occult arts (as an herbalist, reiki master and professional tarot reader for over two decades). After living in the Midwest, the Southwest and high desert of CA as a Bio-Dynamic Land Restorationist they now reside in L.A. with their children practicing ‘bionomic futurist ritual’ and ‘anarcho-animism’.
Want to be a guest? Have someone to recommend? Email Renee Reizman individually! Guests are paid $100 for devising 2 or 3 drawing prompts for the club.
See ya there!
Flyer image description: Two canes, one sheathed and the other a sword, form an X on the middle of the flyer. It says "Disability Drawing Club" on top in a medieval-inspired text. At the bottom, in the same font, it says "July 9 / 7:00 PM / Groundfloor Echo Park." Below that it says "Guest: Vanessa Santos" in a sans-serif rounded font. In smaller letters between the Cane Sword voids, it says "masks required" and "no drawing experience needed"