Open Drawing Sessions, 10am-1pm

• Friday, 15th Jan
• Saturday, 23rd Jan
• Wednesday, 27th Jan

Join this open drawing session with our resident artist, Smithy. It's free to come along, and materials will be provided (you can BYO materials if you like). This is a cool opportunity to draw whatever you like and make art alongside our resident artist and kōrero about art and his mahi.

Koha appreciated.

A huge thanks to our funders for this project: Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust, Creative Communities Scheme Rotorua, and Rotorua Arts Village Trust.

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About Smithy:

Smithy is an artist that is heavily inspired by Japanese manga, comics and video games. He studied at Toi Ohomai and graduated with a bachelors in Creative Technology, focusing on digital illustration and animation. He is also a streamer and uses twitch.tv as an outlet to focus on making digital art and socialise with the viewers and other streamers.

About the Pop Up Summer Residency at The Arts Village:

The Pop Up Residency sees artists given space, time and resources to work, and the community given access to free/low-cost art-making. The residency project takes place from 5th to 31st January 2021 when artists will be at work onsite and running at least 10 hours each of community programming including workshops, demonstrations, and arts talks.