Opening Reception – NYC Drawing the Dance Art Show! Dec 7 at 5 pm

Opening Reception of 2025 Art Show! THIS IS A FREE EVENT.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2025

Place: Dixon Place Gallery, 161A Chrystie Street, NY 10002.

Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

NYC Drawing the Dance Art Show is derived from the NYC Drawing the Dance Workshops, organized by Creative Performances and hosted at Dixon Place Theater. These workshops are one of a kind. The artists create their art work with moving dancers as their models.

This Art Show showcases selected art works created in the workshops organized during 2025.

The artworks are for SALE! Available perfectly in time for buying a unique Christmas gift for special people. All proceeds go to the artist. Please check our instagram to see all the amazing artworks!

Art show will remain open until January 4th, 2026, with appointment visits after the opening night.

Featuring Artists:

Alexis Marino, Anita Rundles, Christine Liu, Elena Barbashova, Gilly Lugo, Janet Morgan, Marie Roberts, Melissa Joskow, Nat Marvan, Nathan Blair, Patricia Chow, Sal Sidner, Selen İmamoğlu , Shireen Soliman, Veronika Doljenkova, Wendy Beth Jackelow

The artworks on display feature these amazing dancers who modeled and danced in our workshops this year: ❤

Dafni Mari, Erin Diehl, Faith Joy Mondesire, Jacob McKee, Jeevika Bhat, Leanne Gioia, Makayla Peterson, Maia Sage, Shizu Higa

We have Patricia Chow presenting works created during the tech rehearsal of Dance Bloc NYC Festival - House of Chow – Yvonne Huatin Chow & Davinara Dance Collective

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FAQ:

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?Here is the transportation link to Dixon Place: http://dixonplace.org/about-us/location/Delancey and Essex Municipal Parking Garage on 105-113 Essex Street & 112-120 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002, is very affordable and is about 5 blocks from Dixon Place, about 7 min walk.

Can't make it to the reception? But, love an art and want to buy it? Please email to – creativeperformances.nyc@gmail.com and ask for more info.

You can further support this initiative by making a DONATION to our Non-Profit Orgnization.

Thank you for your interest. See you at the Opening Reception.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Alexis A. Marino @alexismarinoart
Alexis Marino is an artist and illustrator working in her native city, New York. Having always been fascinated by the sights and sounds of her home, she finds inspiration in often overlooked vignettes, working en plein air and natural shapes. She uses a lot of her own reference in her large scale artworks on paper.

Anita Rundles @anitarundles_art
Anita Rundles is an illustrator and educator based in Brooklyn. One of her primary joys in art is drawing from life, often turning live drawings from models into finished art pieces. She loves taking part in Drawing the Dance workshops.

Christine Liu @dittofunkysketch123
Christine ‘ditto funky’ Liu was born in Chinatown, New York City. She received her BFA in illustration from Parsons School of Design and worked as an in-house designer for various industries for over 15 years. Her illustrations have been published in Uppercase Magazine, and some have been displayed at the Freelancers Hub Art Showcase. Christine works in New York City, where she sketches at live events or at home with her imagined stories.

Elena Barabashova @barabele
In her resent works, Jersey City based artist Elena Barabashova explores the human form, the expression of a body and the story of a face. Using mixed media allows her to keep the drawings spontaneous. Her aim is to reveal the energy, express the movement and personality of the model.

Gilly Lugo @gillygeeart
Gilly Lugo is an interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. She holds a BFA in Illustration from FIT and a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in ceramics from UMass Dartmouth.

Janet Morgan @janetmorganarts
Janet Morgan has had a long and varied art career, involving painting, public art, dance, environmental work, curation and children’s books. Lately she developed and curated Fearless Watercolor show and co-curated the Salon de Refuses, a 200 artist show of art rejected from the Brooklyn Museum at BWAC in Brooklyn.

Marie Roberts @mariearoberts
Marie Roberts is a painter living and working in NYC. She holds an MFA from Queens College, CUNY and is a Professor of Art at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She was show painter to the Coney Island Circus Sideshow for 25 years and currently with The Squidling Brothers Shows.

Melissa Joskow @mcjosk
Melissa Joskow (she/her/hers) is the Senior Manager of Graphic Design and Communications at PEN America. Melissa also sketches and paints in a variety of media. You can find more of her work at melissa-joskow.squarespace.com

Nat Marvan @sperocor
Nat Marvan is a NYC based puppeteer and visual artist originally from Denver, Colorado. Nat has done puppetry and prop work on stage, and for bands/musicians including: Pinc Louds, Chammeili, Katy Pinke, The Slackers, and 100 gecs. Nat loves to focus on graphic character designs and keeping things kinetic.

Nathan Blair @nateplusplus

Nathan Blair is an artist and software engineer based in New York City. He graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design, building a career in film before transitioning into web development. He recently returned to drawing as a way to reconnect with art, people and himself. Nate’s work often explores the connection between nature, humanity, and technology. He’s inspired by the movement, community, and shared energy that arise when artists gather to create together.

Patricia Chow @patricia.sketches
Patricia Chow is a painter and urban sketcher taking refuge from the world in NYC. She loves to participate in artist residencies around the world, where she can paint and create installations with other international artists. She holds an MFA in painting from Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles.

Sal Sidner @sidnersal

Selen Imamoglu @selen.imm
Selen Imamoglu is an interior and experiential designer based in New York. As a storyteller, she constantly explores new ways to forge connections between people and feelings through art and design. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings and small details in everyday life, she loves observing, reflecting and capturing the moment across diverse mediums.

Shireen Soliman @shireendessinesoliman
As a Muslim and Egyptian-American artist, educator, and mother in NYC, Shireen celebrates underrepresented stories through her art, transcending stereotypes. Her illustrations, influenced by her background in fashion design, use watercolor, marker, and pencil to capture the beauty, radiance, and grace of dancers.

Veronika Doljenkova @nycsketchartist
Veronika has been an artist in residence at Upernavik Art Museum, Greenland and Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Her illustrations were published in Cell, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, and Conservation Matters magazine. In November 2024 her artworks were displayed throughout New York City on #LinkNYC kiosks as a part of #Artonlink initiative.

Wendy Beth Jackelow @wbjackelow_studios
Wendy Beth Jackelow is an artist based in Staten Island, NY.
Trained as a medical illustrator at the Rochester Institute of Technology, she focuses on printmaking, painting, and drawing outside of her medical illustration work.