DRAWWING INSPIRATION
April 2025 | Los Angeles
Drawwing Inspiration was a fundraising event in collaboration with Drawwing Cabinet hosted by ELOREA, Los Angeles to support arts education for underserved API youth. The event offered a first glimpse of Civil Art X Christie’s Night Market: The Exchange of Dreams, a publication featuring trailblazing Asian Pacific Islander creatives.
ABOUT DRAWWING CABINET
Drawwing Cabinet is an artist-run educational studio in La Crescenta, CA. Through offering classes and workshops, Drawwing Cabinet creates a space where aspiring, emerging, and established artists share skills, ideas, and resources. Drawwing Cabinet seeks to build a pluralistic platform where a multitude of creative thinkers intersect and continue to mutually inspire and support one another.
Featured Speakers
Civil Art invited creatives featured in Night Market: The Exchange of Dreams, to share insights into their practices and personal journeys. From distilling perfumes to styling artists, our speakers spoke about their creative visions and the importance of weaving the tapestry of greater API and POC representation.
Su Min Park
Founder of ELOREA
Devin Kang
Creative Director at Noend Denim
Jenny Eom
Founder of ELOREA
David Wynn
Co-founder of Process and Practice
Student Exhibition
Through the fundraising initiatives set by Drawwing Inspiration, Civil Art supported two students’ participation in Drawwing Cabinet’s 6-week Summer Intensives program tuition-free. In addition, proceeds were contributed towards the development of Learning Lab, an educational art video series co-created by Civil Art and Drawwing Cabinet.
Set to launch in 2026, Learning Lab is an accessible and inclusive educational platform produced by Civil Art and Drawwing Cabinet. Each video features various API artists, critical theory, scholarship, personal narratives, and artistic material for inspiration.
