Drawing Inspiration: Live Sketching with Yuko Okabe
Free with Museum Admission
Thursday
July 31, 2025
6 - 8 pm
Hostetter Gallery
Immerse yourself in Ming Fay’s garden this summer and nurture your own creativity! Follow prompts from Yuko Okabe, a Polly Thayer Starr Visiting Studio Artist, and draw in Hostetter Gallery surrounded by Fay’s wondrous sculptures and sketches. In this garden, unlike any other, take the opportunity to slow down, look closely, and leave with new memories and art made by your own hand.
All materials will be provided and no prior drawing experience is required; visitors of all ages are encouraged to participate.
Space is limited and participation is not guaranteed. Free with Museum admission.
Ming Fay (American, 1943 – 2025), Close Up of Itchy Ball, 1979. Photograph. Private Collection
About the Artist
Photo courtesy of the artist
Yuko Okabe (she/they) is an illustrator and cultural worker playing at the intersection of youthful whimsy and community engagement.
Okabe's practice as a multifaceted creative encompasses experience as a teacher, facilitator, illustrator, and co-creator of projects exploring narratives of journey and the future. In all of their work, Okabe champions themes of inclusivity and future-building narratives. As an illustrator, their depiction of people and architecture establishes a world with boundless potential for different bodies, languages, and philosophies to flourish.
Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden is supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Amy and David Abrams, the Barr Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, Wagner Foundation, the Barbara Lee Program Fund, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Fredericka and Howard Stevenson, and Yuchun and Agustina Lee.
Studio activities are made possible by the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust.
The Museum is also supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the State of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
