Tacoma Gallery <http://www.tacomagallery.com> is hosting a soft-opening of our 2nd Saturday Life Drawing at Tacoma Art Museum <http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org>! These sessions will continue into the future on every second Saturday (with a few calendar changes to Sunday to accommodate the museum's busy programming schedule). Each class can be taken a la carte, but will follow a monthly sequence starting at the basics and working towards proportion, anatomy, figure expression, and figure painting, for a progressive curriculum. *Saturday, July 13, 2019. 1:00-4:00 PM class and 2:00-4:00 PM Drop-in. * *Ages 16-Adult. All participants must agree to respect the model and no photography (cell phones) will be allowed.* The class begins at 1:00 PM and is one hour of instruction, followed by two hours of supervised drawing. The class is $35 but arrive early because that includes museum admission for the student ($18 value). This Saturday's class will focus on gesture and volumetric drawing. Drop-in artists (no instruction and no museum admission, self-guided drawing only) begins at 2:00 PM and runs until 4:00 PM. Drop-ins are $10. This Saturday's session will take place in the smaller TAM classroom, on the second floor. Check in at the front desk. There will be a festival happening as well, so we will need to be mindful of entry and exit from the studio space, to protect the model's privacy. We may need to stagger entry/exit for drop-in between poses. Please be patient. Our model this week is Shannon Kringen. Please bring your own materials and drawing boards, otherwise we will have use of TAM's adjustable height tables. Charcoal and vine charcoal/conte crayon are recommended, as are kneaded erasers, newsprint and quality drawing paper. *Be advised, only pencil is allowed inside the museum galleries, should you want to draw from the exhibitions before the class.* Please preregister at this link: https://2513a.blackbaudhosting.com/2513a/Figure-Drawing-Second-Saturdays You can also register day of, at TAM. Email jason@tacomagallery.com or jason@jasonsobottka.com for more info, or visit www.tacomagallery.com The class is being taught by Jason Sobottka, Department Chair: Humanities and Visual Art at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He teaches printmaking, painting and 200/300-level life drawing courses at LWTECH. Jason also teaches at Tacoma Community College. -- *Jason Sobottka* *Visual Arts* www.jasonsobottka.com