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Hello Friends! Welcome back to Practice Practice.
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Its hard to believe, but we are already 4 months into our year-long residency at the Oklahoma Contemporary's Studio School! Here's an update of what we've been working on:
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Dylan Cale Jones
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We All Live Together, 2025, 72"x126", ink and colored pencil on toned paper.
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Dylan is working on their new series "We All Live Together". In these works, Dylan illustrates ambiguous mass-gatherings of what might be commuters, festival-goes, protestors, or evacuees. Each crowd contains a myriad of appearances, complicating the dynamic of shared experience through apparent differences. These works evoke the often unseen, but ever present and problematic reality of human interconnectedness.
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Dylan is feeling exciting about increasing the scale of their drawings so that viewers feel immersed and implicated in the crowds of people. See more of Dylan's work here.
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Isa Rodriguez
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Kalaira (04), 2025, 50"x80", acrylic and alcohol-based inks on toned paper.
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Isa is creating more large-scale mixed media drawings of migratory jaguars living along the U.S.-Mexico border. In a recent statement about the "Kalaira" series, they write:
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As a Venezuelan American artist of Wayuu descent, the jaguar, or “kalaira", has a specific spiritual significance, representing strength, intelligence, and intuition. They also have the power to transcend boundaries.
Jaguars’ range extends from southern Argentina into the United States, a habitat that overlaps with corridors used by migrants, including the Darien Gap and the Sonoran Desert. My "Kalaira" drawings respond to current conversations about migration, territory, and boundaries. The large-scale drawings dissolve the border between the jaguar and its habitat, creating an image in which the viewer can’t distinguish subject from environment.
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Classes start April 7th!
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Classes at Studio School are about to start, but you've still got time to sign up! Isa is teaching:
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Practice Practice's one-of-a-kind drawing curriculum. Scribble, trace, collage, experiment!
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Let's take Creative Drawing to the next level!
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Put your hand-built ceramics in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care about throwing clay on the wheel.
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We'll be back in 2 weeks.
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Until then, keep practicing!
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