Special Event
Asawa Flowers --> You Flowers with Wendy MacNaughton
Related Exhibition Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
Saturday, Aug 9, 2025
2 p.m.
Floor 2, Koret Education Center
Update: RSVPs for this program are at capacity.
Please note: RSVPs are only valid for entry until 2 p.m., at which point a standby line will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis.
“You can paint flowers, but make sure that they’re Asawa flowers.”
Throughout the summer, artist, illustrator, and founder of DrawTogether Wendy MacNaughton has been sharing drawing lessons and assignments inspired by Ruth Asawa with her creative community of over 100,000 artists online.
Today, Wendy invites you to join her in person at SFMOMA to draw together. Inspired by Asawa’s love of gardening — and her drawings of flora and fauna — Wendy will lead participants in an exploration of Asawa’s unique approach to drawing flowers. Then, using Asawa-inspired arrangements created by Torryne Choate of Birch as models, participants will draw their own flowers in their own unique style. Let’s call them You Flowers.
Bonus: Don’t forget to contribute to a giant, collaborative exquisite corpse flower drawing that will grow throughout the day (Us Flowers!).
All experience levels welcome, including none. This is a grown-up–focused event, but all ages are welcome. Bring your own art supplies (extras will be on hand just in case).
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About the Artist
Wendy MacNaughton is an artist, graphic journalist, and educator whose wide-ranging, boundary-pushing work is rooted in a conviction that drawing, and the careful attention it requires of us, is an essential tool for creating human connection. She is currently the creator and “drawer-in-chief” of DrawTogether, a participatory drawing web series for kids; DrawTogether Classrooms, an educational nonprofit that provides free social emotional learning and art curriculums to nearly 300,000 learners worldwide; and a weekly publication for adults, the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table, which offers imaginative art exercises and wellness support.
Programming for Ruth Asawa: Retrospective is made possible with support from Google.org.
