Students Advertise Drawing Marathon

By The Dartmouth Web Staff | 2/25/11 2:06pm

Con­fused by cryp­tic "draw­ing marathon" posters scat­tered around cam­pus? The ac­tual draw­ing marathon is sched­uled to take place from this Fri­day at 5 pm to Sat­ur­day at 5 am in the Hop draw­ing stu­dios, ac­cord­ing to a cam­pus-wide e-mail sent by stu­dio art in­tern Julia Zak '10. The event should be "a party, the more peo­ple the bet­ter," ac­cord­ing to Zak.

Every­one from un­der­grads to profs to friends of stu­dents is en­cour­aged to draw, she said. Stu­dio art in­terns Zak, Max Heiges '10, Jenny Qian '10 and Kari Chol­noky '10 will pre­sent sup­plies, in­clud­ing pas­tels, char­coal, oil paints, India ink and wa­ter­col­ors, Zak said. There will also be live mod­els, t-shirts, snacks and a per­for­mance by Thayer stu­dent D.J. Jan Gro­madzki from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m., she said.

While Zak has "no idea" how many stu­dents will at­tend, the in­terns are hop­ing for "tons," she said.

This is the first year that stu­dents, rather than pro­fes­sors, will be or­ga­niz­ing the event, which is funded by the art de­part­ment, Zak said.