Tired of textbooks? Register for Cheng Huai's Drawing for Art Historians Workshop next Monday at 4h30 pm with Professor Matthew Hunter, head of the McGill Art History department! During the workshop, we will dare to recreate an 18th century artwork with the historically accurate drawing techniques used to produce it! This event will be an educational and relaxing way to wind down in the afternoon, as our amazing programmers will encourage a friendly discussion throughout the event! Warm beverages encouraged! Our approach is based on Matthew Hunter’s innovative course, Drawing for Art Historians, which took place for the first time this year! The art history department head will be briefly joining us to give an overview of the course’s hands-on method as well as some background on the drawing exercise we will be practicing in the workshop.

The Cheng Huai Arts and Culture Association, in partnership with the McGill Students Chinese Brush Arts Club (MSCBAC), organize a Mid-Autumn Festival-themed Chinese brushwork workshop on McGill's Lower Field! Led by the talented MSCBAC arts coordinators—Zhengyuan Gao, Mingjun Xu, and Wukai Jiang—participants will have the choice to learn either calligraphy or traditional figurative painting. In Chinese tradition, we will also be serving tea at the event!

In collaboration with SSMU Mental Health Club, we organized an Empowering talk and Watercolour Workshop with the artist Dana Velan with an aim of raising awareness of mental health issues at McGill and alleviate students' stress. The artist Dana Velan's recent large-scale water-colour series Nebula (2014) create imaginary realms to realize therapeutic powers of art. Inspired by a variety of stories and elements, from astrophysical phenomena and natural elements to literature and diasporic experiences, Dana creates a world of imaginary landscapes which also have strong spiritual relieving power.

During a career which has expanded for more than a decade, artist Yann Pocreau draws on abstract designs of space and light to create a kind of luminous photography which also refers back to the illuminating nature of photography itself. Through those artworks evocative of different architectural spaces from cathedrals to domestic interiors, the artist emanates from photographs an intimate and sublime relationship with time, space, and thus, selves of the viewers. We organized a studio tour and invited the artist Yann Pocreau to talk about his creative visions and inspirations behind some of his most important works including Cathédrale (2013) during his residency at Fonderie Darling.