Schedule and Workshops

The 3rd International Urban Sketching Symposium offers an intense schedule of workshops, panels, lectures and exhibits that give participants a fantastic opportunity to meet fellow urban sketchers from around the world and gain valuable drawing instruction in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.

Participants can choose up to five urban sketching workshops out of a rich menu that covers a wide range of subject matter, including perspective and architecture, picture design, storytelling and reportage, color techniques and more.

The workshops take place in historic Santo Domingo enclaves within walking distance of our hosting institution, Centro Cultural de España. Each workshop is limited to a maximum of 15 participants in order to ensure a quality experience for everyone. The duration of each workshop is about three hours.

To accommodate all participants in the time allowed, eight workshops are offered simultaneously at any given time. In all, Symposium instructors teach 40 workshops over the three days.

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The schedule is subject to change.

Participants make their workshop choices after they have registered for the Symposium. Below is the full list of workshops — the walking distance from Centro Cultural de España to each workshop location is noted in parenthesis. Detailed descriptions of each workshop will follow this post over the next week.

Workshop A
Caribbean Panoramas in Four Steps
Location: Plaza de España and Alcazar de Colón (0.5 miles / 0.8 km / 10 mins)
Instructors: Claudio Patané and Simonetta Capecchi

Workshop B
Capturing the Event
Location: Parque Independencia/Puerta del Conde (0.65 miles / 1 km / 13 mins)
Instructor: Tom Thorspecken

Workshop C
Straight to Colors
Location: Parque Duarte and Convento de los Dominicos at Padre Billini St. (0.16 miles / 0.2 km / 4 mins)
Instructor: Eduardo Bajzek

Workshop D
Mercado Merengue
Location: Mercado Modelo (0.77 miles / 1.2 km / 17 mins)
Instructors: Melanie Reim and Nathalie Ramirez

Workshop E
Architecture: Personal Viewpoints
Location: Cathedral Santa María (0.19 miles / 0.3 km / 3 mins)
Instructors: Frank Ching and Liz Steel

Workshop F
Sketch Hunt
Location: Iglesia de las Mercedes (0.57 miles / 0.9 km / 11 mins)
Instructor: José Louro

Workshop G
Improvising with Lines and Colors: The Urban Sketcher as a Storyteller
Location: Parque Colón/Cathedral (0.19 miles / 0.3 km / 3 mins)
Instructors: Inma Serrano and Orling Domínguez

Workshop H
Challenge through limitations
Location: Calle Hostos and Ruins and Hospital San Nicolas de Bari (0.4 miles / 0.6 km / 8 mins)
Instructor: Nina Johansson

Workshop I
Tea, Milk, Honey: Three Step Watercolor Sketches
Location: Ruinas de San Francisco (0.5 miles / 0.8 km / 10 mins)
Instructor: Marc Holmes

Workshop J
What’s Behind an Onion? Drawing on Layers
Location: Parque Duarte and Convento de los Dominicos (0.25 miles / 0.4 km / 5 mins)
Instructors: Miguel Herranz and Swasky

Workshop K
Quick on the Draw Plaza
Location: Padre Billini and Tostado House (0.1 miles / 0.16 km / 2 mins)
Instructor: Lynne Chapman

Workshop L
The Decisive Moment
Location: Conde St. esq 19 de Marzo (0.25 miles / 0.4 km / 5 mins)
Instructors: Veronica Lawlor and Jonathan Schmidt

Workshop M
Color Games
Location: Avenida del Puerto/Puerta Diego Colón (0.6 miles / 1 km / 12 mins)
Instructor: Jason Das