You think you can draw? Portrait challenge at the Baby Seal Club

Ryan Molenkamp, artist and security chief at the Frye, reports that museum guards have more to fear than the agony of da feet. Boredom eats the soul. To combat this eating away, the artists on the Frye team organized a portrait challenge in 2004, open to all comers. In ever more ambitious forms, it continues. Writes Molenkamp:

Subjects were taken from the various discarded magazines floating around the museum. The challenge amounted to a small photo being pasted in a standard sheet of paper,
and 6 empty boxes placed below it…The results ranged from realistic renderings to insightful caricatures,
silly pictures to conceptual musings, and everything in between.
(Besides guards), participants over the years have ranged from artists Mark
Ryden, Jennifer Zwick and Cait Willis to folks
with no artistic training what-so-ever…This year’s highlight will be highlight an interactive section of 100 new, blank portrait
challenges which the public will be asked to fill up with the night of
the show.

Baby Seal Club, 619 Western Ave., third floor. May 7, 6-10 pm. Sample from the past below.