Drawn Between The Lines

About this event

Drawn Between The Lines (https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/featured-programs/drawn-between-the-lines.html) is a multi-part exhibition that brings together a selection of works on paper made by Wesleyan University students enrolled in ARST131 "Drawing I," taught by Associate Professor of Art Julia Randall, at Cheshire Correctional Institution through Wesleyan's Center for Prison Education (https://www.wesleyan.edu/cpe/). Offered for the first time in summer 2025, and again in spring 2026, this was the first college-level drawing course, and the first practice-based arts class (a staple of Wesleyan's on-campus curriculum), taught at this maximum-security state prison for men. The curriculum was based on the standard "Drawing I" class exercises, including still life and observational drawing, modified by the realities of the context in which the course took place: no live model, no studio access outside the prison classroom, and strict limits on the materials the students could use and observe. The resulting exhibition-curated by Randall with help from campus student Teaching Assistant Coline McEachern '26-is presented in three sections, installed throughout Olin Library, a hub of student life on campus where many Wesleyan students have the opportunity to exhibit their work through the student exhibition program run by Art History and Visual Arts Librarian Jason Di Resta.Please check the hours for Olin Library here. (https://libcal.wesleyan.edu/hours) Image: Veronica-May Clark, Untitled, 2025. Colored pencil on paper, 11 x 17 inches.yan's

Center for Prison Education .

Offered for the first time in summer 2025, and again in spring 2026, this was the first college-level drawing course, and the first practice-based arts class (a staple of Wesleyan's on-campus curriculum), taught at this maximum-security state prison for men. The curriculum was based on the standard "Drawing I" class exercises, including still life and observational drawing, modified by the realities of the context in which the course took place: no live model, no studio access outside the prison classroom, and strict limits on the materials the students could use and observe.

The resulting exhibition-curated by Randall with help from campus student Teaching Assistant Coline McEachern '26-is presented in three sections, installe d throughout Olin Library, a hub of student life on campus where many Wesleyan students have the opportunity to exhibit their work through the student exhibition program run by Art History and Visual Arts Librarian Jason Di Resta.

Please check the hours for Olin Library here.

Image: Veronica-May Clark,

Untitled, 2025. Colored pencil on paper, 11 x 17 inches.