Digging deeper: Drawing and the Brain

This is a talk I just gave at an international symposium at Columbia College, Chicago, co-sponsored by ELIA, the European League of Institutes of Art. The whole symposium was an interesting, fun event (though a lot of the Europeans couldn't make it on account of the volcano!)

There's a tremendous amont of incredibly exciting discoveries in cognition and neuroscience that have been made in the past 10-15 years. I make links from this current research to the pedagogy of Kimon Nicolaides, and the drawings of a variety of artists, such as Giacometti, Gong Xian, and William Kentridge. I'm trying to figure out what we can learn from looking at the work of expert practictioners, through the lens of cognitive neuroscience and psychology, that we can use to teach and advocate for and practice drawing today.

This was the first time I had publicly presented these ideas, and it was great to get some feedback. I certainly have a long way to go to figure it all out, but it seems that people want to know, so I guess I better get busy!