Workshops
Sketching the Human Form

Name: Sketching the Human Form
Start: 2025-09-27T13:00:00-0400
End: 2025-09-27T16:00:00-0400
Location: Royal Ontario Museum

Date

Saturday, Sep 27, 2025 13:00

Registration Opens

Monday, Jul 28, 2025 00:00

Admission

Workshops - Public: $90.00 Workshops - Member: $82.00

Audience

Adults

Date

Saturday, Sep 27, 2025 13:00

Registration Opens

Monday, Jul 28, 2025 00:00

Admission

Workshops - Public: $90.00 Workshops - Member: $82.00

Audience

Adults

Explore how artists have recreated the human form throughout the ages in a half-day workshop. Immersed in the galleries and exhibitions, your afternoon includes a tour of select galleries with an eye to learning how artists through the ages have depicted the human body in two dimensions. With your sketchbook in hand, discover unique styles of drawing from ancient Egypt to Renaissance Flanders, and then use the three-dimensional sculptures in the Greek galleries to practice and hone your own drawing skills.

Instructor

Farrukh Rafiq

Farrukh Rafiq is the Coordinator, South Asia Community Engagement at ROM where he has been developing and delivering workshops inspired by the South Asia collections. He is an art historian and educator with a doctorate in Art History from Queen’s University. His teaching methodology centers on amalgamating a multitude of interdisciplinary lenses to provide learners with a varied and comprehensive approach to both historical and contemporary art. Farrukh has also taught visual and digital arts courses at various art galleries and museums in the Greater Toronto Area, and has taught art history courses at the University of Toronto, Carleton University, and Concordia University.

Participants should be prepared to bring basic art materials. A materials list will be provided.

Required Materials List: