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Thursday, January 22, 2026
6:30 - 8:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$25 General Admission
Supplies included!
Raise a glass of wine, steady your hand, and render what the shadows suggest. Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library for an evening Drink & Draw where we ponder still life assemblages in the spirit of Memento Mori.
Paper and basic drawing tools will be provided on site and no prior experience is required. Sketches will take place in timed rounds building from 30 seconds to 20 minutes. We will offer brief prompts and small demonstrations; the rest is quiet industry and good company, as the Victorians would have wished.
"Drawing Down the Bones"-- Freeing the Artist Within
Spend a meditative evening giving close attention to a donated collection of bones, thinking of the way bones are references in our daily life such as "I feel it in my bones," or, "Eat! you're skin and bones!" and, "That cuts the bone." Artist and educator Morna McNulty will guide participants through a series of drawing exercises that are one-part creative expression, one-part reflection on life and death, and one-part scientific examination.
Morna collected these bones, mostly from cow, sheep and coyote, over 25 years ago while exploring deserted range lands in the American northwest states (no animals were harmed to acquire them!). No previous drawing or art experience required for this event.
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Morna McNulty is a professor at Towson University in Maryland with over 30 years of teaching experience. She teaches a variety of courses in the college of education including arts-based research, curriculum arts-integration, and every so often a course called Vampires on Campus: Exploring the Vampire in Western Culture through Literature and Film. Occasionally she also teaches arts courses for Art with a Heart, a Baltimore community program. In addition to her passion for teaching, Morna has a passion for all things gothic, macabre and morbid. She is a collage artist, Tarot card creator, photographer and creative writer with publications including Ghosts in the Interregnum, Blood's Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence and the Inquiry of Currere and Oleanna in the Anthropocene.
Images: Marie Bashkirtseff, In the Studio (Atelier de peinture) (1881). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkirtseff_-_In_the_Studio.jpg
Thursday, January 22, 2026
6:30 - 8:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$25 General Admission
Supplies included!
Raise a glass of wine, steady your hand, and render what the shadows suggest. Join us at The Morbid Anatomy Library for an evening Drink & Draw where we ponder still life assemblages in the spirit of Memento Mori.
Paper and basic drawing tools will be provided on site and no prior experience is required. Sketches will take place in timed rounds building from 30 seconds to 20 minutes. We will offer brief prompts and small demonstrations; the rest is quiet industry and good company, as the Victorians would have wished.
"Drawing Down the Bones"-- Freeing the Artist Within
Spend a meditative evening giving close attention to a donated collection of bones, thinking of the way bones are references in our daily life such as "I feel it in my bones," or, "Eat! you're skin and bones!" and, "That cuts the bone." Artist and educator Morna McNulty will guide participants through a series of drawing exercises that are one-part creative expression, one-part reflection on life and death, and one-part scientific examination.
Morna collected these bones, mostly from cow, sheep and coyote, over 25 years ago while exploring deserted range lands in the American northwest states (no animals were harmed to acquire them!). No previous drawing or art experience required for this event.
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Morna McNulty is a professor at Towson University in Maryland with over 30 years of teaching experience. She teaches a variety of courses in the college of education including arts-based research, curriculum arts-integration, and every so often a course called Vampires on Campus: Exploring the Vampire in Western Culture through Literature and Film. Occasionally she also teaches arts courses for Art with a Heart, a Baltimore community program. In addition to her passion for teaching, Morna has a passion for all things gothic, macabre and morbid. She is a collage artist, Tarot card creator, photographer and creative writer with publications including Ghosts in the Interregnum, Blood's Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence and the Inquiry of Currere and Oleanna in the Anthropocene.
Images: Marie Bashkirtseff, In the Studio (Atelier de peinture) (1881). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkirtseff_-_In_the_Studio.jpg
