Katherine Toukhy community workshop:  5:30 - 7:30  Feb 20th at GROUNDED Printshop

Wayfinding: 1902 Cherry St, Erie, PA 16502. Pull into the fenced in parking lot and the building you will enter is a big grey warehouse. Enter through one of the green doors.

Katherine is  seeking new ways to represent the dynamic human figure by drawing while she moves spontaneously, according to an inner rhythm. "I have noticed that our emotions and our moving bodies carry intelligence and energy, and I want to bring that out in my pieces," says Katherine. "From these spontaneously drawn surfaces, I will shape a wall piece using figurative abstraction."

"I am also really interested in facilitating small groups in movement drawing on large paper/canvas/walls. Working collectively in this way, we can open up new ways of moving, making marks, and connecting. Movement has helped me connect more holistically to myself, and I believe it can help us connect more with each other and the environment around us.

My goals at the residency are: 1.) to pilot a community workshop with movement drawing and gain feedback from participants on how to evolve this group process and 2) to make an ephemeral large-scale wall piece that reflects the energy of our moving bodies using figurative abstraction. I also aim to record these processes for future study and make a print edition while in residence."


Erie Arts & Culture's February Visiting Artist in Residence

Katherine Toukhy lives and works in Flatbush, Brooklyn (unceded Lenapehoking). In the studio, she transforms figurative shapes into mixed media, animation, and public art. She has exhibited with the Bronx Museum, the Park Ave Armory, Wave Hill, BRIC, Trestle Gallery, and the Arab American National Museum among others. Select public projects have included a mural for the Flatbush African Burial Ground, supported by the City Artist Corps Grant (2021) and “The Khayamiyya Monument,” a social sculpture commissioned by The Laundromat Project (2017). In 2021, her piece “We Are the Fabric,” was published in Vogue to highlight Park Ave Armory’s “100 Years 100 Women,” celebrating women’s suffrage. Toukhy has also worked with support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, BRIC Media Fellowship, The Laundromat Project, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Project for Empty Space, among others.
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