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Draw On! is a project introduced in 2006 by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield. This year attendance is expected to reach 4,000, with participating organizations to date in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. For more information about the Draw On! project, please visit drawon.org.
The Florence Griswold Museum has created a dynamic drawing studio in the Hartman Education Center as part of this innovative project. During the
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Draw On! @ F.G.M.
Whether you doodle, scribble, or sketch, the art of drawing is about expressing thoughts and feelings in line and shade. Draw On! is a weeklong community festival that brings together people of all ages through the simple act of drawing. The objective of 
Activities include free-style experimenting as well as more classic drawing lab experiments that challenge hand-eye coordination. Those interested in drawing from nature can step outside to explore the grounds of the historic Lyme Art Colony and try out methods of direct observational drawing. Several activities such as drawing in sand and displacing lines in woven netting relate to the avant-garde teaching of Sewell Sillman whose art is the focus of the current exhibition Sewell Sillman: Pushing Limits. 
“It’s all about creativity,” states Museum Educator Matthew Ferrer, a recent graduate of the School for the Visual Arts in New York City and the Museum’s
