Every month, the room goes quiet.

Thirty seconds. Then five. Then twenty. The guild opens its doors, the easels come out, and a room full of artists settles into the long, patient work of looking.

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Continuous line — twenty minutes, one line.

30 sec — gesture 5 min — short pose 20 min — long pose

Loose charcoal figure studies pinned across a studio easel board — The first half hour — sheets come off the easel as fast as they go on.

01 — The night

Thirty seconds. Then five. Then twenty.

The night starts fast. Loose marks, no erasing, one sheet after another — the first half hour is spent learning to see before there is any time to think about it.

The guild holds a figure drawing night every month, and it is open to anyone who wants to draw. Bring charcoal or borrow a board, take whichever seat is free, and work at whatever pace the timer sets.

30 sec Gesture — the warm-up. Loose marks, one sheet after another.
5 min Short pose — time enough to find the shape and hold it.
20 min Long pose — time to correct a line and follow a shadow.

02 — Member gallery

Everything on the walls is for sale.

Work by guild members, hung one staircase up from the studio. The artist sets the price; the guild hangs the show and puts you in touch.

A framed member artwork hung on a plain gallery wall

Member work · on view now

Framed and lit on the upper gallery wall, a short walk from the drawing room.

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Two small framed member artworks resting on a gallery shelf

Member work · on view now

Smaller pieces from the same members, resting on the shelf where visitors can pick them up.

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New work goes up as the months go by — every sale keeps a member in the studio. Ask the guild about a piece

03 — Exhibition & studio tour

Juried shows, open studios.

The rest of the guild’s year is built the same way as the drawing night: slowly, and in public.

Easels and drawing boards set up in the guild studio during a drawing session

Juried exhibition entries

Guild members may put work in front of the jury for the guild’s juried exhibition. If a piece is selected, it hangs with the rest of the exhibition and goes on the wall with your name on the label.

A narrow stone-walled street of studios in Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Studio tour maps

The guild publishes a map of member studios around town, so visitors can walk from one working studio to the next and meet the people who make the work. Members are on the map.

Jury entries and the studio tour map are both member benefits. See what membership includes

04 — Membership

Sit for the long pose.

Membership is how the room stays open. It covers the figure drawing night every month, a place in the member gallery, entries into the juried exhibition, a listing on the studio tour map, and the guild’s youth art scholarships.

Tiers are available — write to the guild about membership, about a piece in the gallery, or about the studio tour, and the guild will point you to the one that fits.

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01A figure drawing night, every month.
02A place in the member gallery.
03Entries into the juried exhibition.
04A listing on the studio tour map.
05Support for youth art scholarships.

The guild sets aside scholarship support for young artists — the ones who show up early and stay late.

Youth art scholarships are one of the guild’s standing commitments, alongside the monthly drawing night and the member gallery. It is the quietest thing the guild does, and the one that lasts the longest.

Charcoal-smudged hands resting on an open sketchbook — Scholarship work — a half-finished page from the studio.