Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Get to know Elizabeth Alley, one of the talented artists leading a lecture at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Poznań, Poland, on August 20-23, 2025!
#uskpoznan2025
Lecture LT01
Sketching in the Arctic
In May 2025, Elizabeth is participating in an artist residency in the Arctic Circle on a sailing vessel around Svalbard, where she will be sketching everything. This lecture will focus on initial expectations and the reality of spending two weeks living and sketching on a boat in the Arctic.
The Arctic Circle residency project expands Elizabeth’s current focus on the urban environment to create paintings of transitional landscape areas where different elements intersect (water’s edge, rivers, mountains, walkways, bridges, roads), incorporating the vocabulary of the Arctic. Through the activity of sketching, Elizabeth’s goal is to create an installation of paintings and drawings that conveys the brief moments of connection that we as humans can have with the landscape.
She will describe the preparation process, including experimenting with sketching materials, talking with people who had participated in similar activities, and gathering her gear for the Arctic.
The lecture covers what the experience was actually like while sketching in the Arctic, on a boat, on a zodiac, on a glacier. The other participants will include artists and scientists, and she will talk about what it was like to make my work around people from all over the world who are approaching their projects in a diversity of ways.
She will conclude by talking about how the sketching experience impacted her artmaking and artwork and the connection in her work between on-location sketching and studio work.
The Urban Sketchers Symposium is in Poznań, Poland, on August 20-23, 2025!
The Urban Sketchers International Symposium is an annual educational event organized by Urban Sketchers (USk), a nonprofit dedicated to fostering the practice of on-location observational sketching.
It brings together sketchers of all levels for four days of valuable field-sketching instruction, inspiration, and opportunities for participants to meet new friends.
Join us! Registration opens on March 15, 12pm CET on Eventbrite.
eventbrite.com/e/13th-urban-sketchers-symposium-poznan-2025-tickets-1218453680759
QUESTIONS? ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM IS AT THE FAQ
urbansketchers.org/usk-symposium-poznan-2025-faq
Instagram: instagram.com/elizabethalley
Get to know Elizabeth Alley, one of the talented artists leading a lecture at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Poznań, Poland, on August 20-23, 2025!
#uskpoznan2025
Lecture LT01
Sketching in the Arctic
In May 2025, Elizabeth is participating in an artist residency in the Arctic Circle on a sailing vessel around Svalbard, where she will be sketching everything. This lecture will focus on initial expectations and the reality of spending two weeks living and sketching on a boat in the Arctic.
The Arctic Circle residency project expands Elizabeth’s current focus on the urban environment to create paintings of transitional landscape areas where different elements intersect (water’s edge, rivers, mountains, walkways, bridges, roads), incorporating the vocabulary of the Arctic. Through the activity of sketching, Elizabeth’s goal is to create an installation of paintings and drawings that conveys the brief moments of connection that we as humans can have with the landscape.
She will describe the preparation process, including experimenting with sketching materials, talking with people who had participated in similar activities, and gathering her gear for the Arctic.
The lecture covers what the experience was actually like while sketching in the Arctic, on a boat, on a zodiac, on a glacier. The other participants will include artists and scientists, and she will talk about what it was like to make my work around people from all over the world who are approaching their projects in a diversity of ways.
She will conclude by talking about how the sketching experience impacted her artmaking and artwork and the connection in her work between on-location sketching and studio work.
The Urban Sketchers Symposium is in Poznań, Poland, on August 20-23, 2025!
The Urban Sketchers International Symposium is an annual educational event organized by Urban Sketchers (USk), a nonprofit dedicated to fostering the practice of on-location observational sketching.
It brings together sketchers of all levels for four days of valuable field-sketching instruction, inspiration, and opportunities for participants to meet new friends.
Join us! Registration opens on March 15, 12pm CET on Eventbrite.
eventbrite.com/e/13th-urban-sketchers-symposium-poznan-2025-tickets-1218453680759
QUESTIONS? ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM IS AT THE FAQ
urbansketchers.org/usk-symposium-poznan-2025-faq
Instagram: instagram.com/elizabethalley
