I am so proud of our Services to Artists Committee (SAC) team for leading such thoughtful and important programming.
In this hands-on masterclass, Han Dai-Yu (Figurative Artist) and Renée Reizman (Artist and founder of Disability Drawing Club) guided participants through the process of creating figurative portraits using pencil. Exploring concepts of inclusion and universality, the class worked with a model with a disability as the subject. No experience was required.
Artist and Professor Han Dai-Yu has been teaching drawing and painting for over twenty years. Dai-Yu received his BFA and MFA from the China Academy of Art, where he was offered a teaching post after graduating. Combining Western and traditional Chinese art and culture, he developed and instituted a comprehensive Chinese art program for the academy.
From 2001–2002, Dai-Yu held the position of Artist-in-Residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Since 2006, Dai-Yu has been teaching at Loyola Marymount University as a full-time faculty member of the Art and Art History department.
Renée Reizman is a disabled, Jewish, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. She works with communities to reveal the ways infrastructure and public policy contribute to social inequality. She is the founder of Disability Drawing Club and currently serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California.
