program with the addition of a second model to each session. The public is invited
throughout the evening, with a mix of “regulars,” as well as visitors who come upon the group unexpectedly and try their hand. Elizabeth is now joined by a second facilitator, Joe Carrig, who teaches teen drawing classes at the MFA on Saturdays and in the summer program. Here is the best part of all - on Wednesday night admission to the MFA is free. See amazing exhibits and make some art of your own in the most inspiring setting and for the best price in town. Here are some of the art created at a recent Drawing from the Gallery session.
Until recently, Jesa Damora’s art focused on enormous drawings, ostensibly about flowers but in fact about the vitality and wildness in nature and in ourselves. Under the pseudonym Belle Wether, she also did enormous drawings of men’s balls which not only raise the question "What do we really experience when we look at things we think we know about?" but also point to the waywardness of the male nude in art these past 150 years. When she lost the use of her dominant arm two years ago, she said, "drat! another ----ing silver lining!" and began a series of wildly colorful, fun abstracts. She has taught art through Prospect Hill Studio, her atelier in Somerville, for five years. Jesa is enormously entertaining to have dinner with. She is married to the Zen priest-poet John Bailes.
