The Church: Drawing Meetups w/ Jackie Hoving and Norm Paris / Oct, Nov, Dec Sunday Dates

DRAWING MEETUPS
with JACKIE HOVING

and NORM PARIS

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12th, 2025
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 2025
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 2025
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7th, 2025
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28th, 2025
3 PM – 4:30 PM

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TICKETS:

General Ticket, per session: $5

Member Ticket, per session: FREE, RSVP REQUIRED

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Bring a sketchbook, graphite or colored pencils, and/or pens and have a seat in the Main Gallery of The Church for a communal drawing salon led by artists and art professors Jackie Hoving and Norm Paris! This recurring program celebrates our fall exhibition Here & There: The Church’s First Churchennial while also honoring The Church’s commitment to fostering creativity on the East End. Flex your creative muscles as you draw the people around you, the space, or something that catches your eye in a meditative experience of observing and being present.

Norm, a professor at Rhode Island School of Design, and Jackie, a professor at Pratt Institute, met as students in Sam Messer’s Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art program. It was there the couple spent time in Sam’s “drawing happenings” and were inspired by his belief in community and bringing people together through drawing.

In alignment with The Church’s vision for a creative community, the Drawing Meetups invite participants of all skill levels to a laid-back environment with a communal spirit. Tables and chairs will be provided and participants are also welcome to find a space within the exhibition for a solo meditative drawing journey. Some graphite pencils and 8×11” paper will also be provided, though participants are encouraged to bring their own supplies. Charcoal, paints, and markers are not permitted in these sessions.

Please note that this is a casual drawing session and not a class.

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JACKIE HOVING

A curator and educator based in Sag Harbor and Brooklyn, Jackie Hoving has had solo exhibitions at Ripon College, Trestle Gallery, and Rebekah Tempelton Gallery. Her work is currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum in The Brooklyn Artist Exhibition. She has also shown work at Mana Contemporary in Chicago, Storefront Gallery in Brooklyn, Philadelphia International Airport, Hilbert Raum in Berlin, and the Drawing Museum in Sweden. Hovin has attended Yale Norfolk School of Art and Music summer program, Vermont Studio Center, and the Ox Bow artist residency. She is an educator at Pratt Institute and Rhode Island School of Design, and was a founding member of the artist-run space Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery.

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NORM PARIS

Norm Paris is an artist, curator, and professor based in Sag Harbor and Brooklyn. He has had solo exhibitions in New York at Transmitter Gallery, the Proposition, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and has been featured in exhibitions at venues such as Ortega y Gasset and Monya Rowe Gallery in New York; Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles; HilbertRaum, Berlin; and the Print Center, Philadelphia. Paris has participated in museum exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Musuem in New York, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina. He was a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in printmaking/drawing/book arts and a 2015-16 fellow at the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program in New York. Paris’s work and curatorial projects have been featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Maake Magazine, Art Papers, Martha’s Quarterly, and Gorky’s Granddaughter. He is a founding member of the artist-run non-profit Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, is a professor at Rhode Island School of Design, and previously taught at the Yale School of Art.

The Church was established in 2019 by artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik. Housed in a deconsecrated 19th-century church, its doors were opened in April 2021. Our mission is to foster creativity and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village. The East End represents an exceptional artistic legacy, spanning the practices of indigenous art of several centuries ago, Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th Century, and the many celebrated writers, makers, musicians, and visual artists of the recent past and current moment. Core programming includes visual art exhibitions, concerts and events, educational programming, workshops, lectures, and an artist’s residency.