PCAL Workshop 1: Drawing - Gesture, Motion, Portraits

Class Description: Art+Design Labs is excited to offer these special new Pre-College ArtLab (PCAL) workshops designed for high school students. This is an introductory figure drawing class that focuses on portraiture, community, and motion. Participants in this three hour workshop will have the opportunity to create six different portraits of other individuals in their cohort using charcoal and oil pastels. Each participant will be drawing simultaneously. This cohesive working environment will create an “in motion” space that will be important to the development of gesture and looseness. Each participant will have the opportunity to focus on proportion, color, and shape language during the workshop while learning how to visually communicate in different lengths of time over the course of the three hours.

Price: $99

Days: Saturday, May 2nd 2026

Time: 9am-12pm

Location: Lower Epperson Bldg., room EA B102. CAMPUS MAP

Instructor: Moe Leady works and resides in Kansas City. She earned a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and has been internationally and nationally published and exhibited; recently in Fortresses Magazine and Friend of the Artist; and with Purple Window Gallery and Warnes Contemporary. Their work dissects body language influenced by our social and political climate. She uses literary tools in their visual manifestations as translative tools when exploring different relationship dynamics, building off her own lived experience both internally and externally. The visual exposition of human nature.

Supplies: All supplies and materials are included in the class fee and will be provided during the workshop.

Parking: Parking is available in any of the (NON-RESERVED) KCAI parking lot spaces across campus. RESERVED spaces are available after 5pm on the weekdays and all day on the weekends. There is also available street parking surrounding KCAI campus. 

Refund: Registered participants can receive refunds to the original payment method (Studio Fee minus Humanitix Fee) up to 14 days before the first class.