Meditation: Drawing with Wendy MacNaughton
For today’s meditation: grab a pencil and paper! The bestselling illustrator and graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton is the founder and host of Draw Together and she will lead us through a drawing exercise “Chill Out Drawing for Stressed Out Times”. Draw Together is a participatory drawing podcast and interactive art class focused on imagination and community. Although Wendy’s show is ostensibly for kids, we have found it touches the inner kid in all of us.
GUEST:
Wendy MacNaughton
Wendy is an illustrator and graphic journalist with a background in social work (MSW). She combines the practice of deep looking, listening and drawing to create stories of often overlooked people, places and things.
As a visual columnist for The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine, Wendy MacNaughton drew stories everywhere from high school cafeterias to Guantanamo Bay. She has illustrated, authored and edited eleven books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat, The Gutsy Girl by Caroline Paul and her own book, Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in Its Own Word.
She is the creator and host of DrawTogether, a participatory drawing show for kids that uses art to bolster social-emotional skills, self-confidence and connection. She is also the co-founder of the Women Who Draw with Julia Rothman, an advocacy database launched in 2016 to increase visibility and opportunities for underrepresented artists, illustrators and cartoonists. She lives with her wife in San Francisco, but you can often find her on the road in her mobile drawing studio built inside the back of a Honda Element.
Credits for the Draw Together Podcast: Editor: Amy Standen • Drawing Music: Chris Colin • Theme song: Thao Nguyen
CREDITS:
Grief, Collected is a production of The Mash-Up Americans. Executive produced by Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer. Senior editor and producer is Sara Pelligrini. Development producer is Dupe Oyebolu. Production manager, Shelby Sandlin. Original music composed by The Brothers Tang. Sound Design support by Pedro Rafael Rosado. Website designed by Rebecca Fernandez. Grief, Collected is supported in part by a grant from The Pop Culture Collaborative. Please make sure to follow and share this show with all of your friends. Ciao.