NEWS & EVENTS

PEGGY WONG RICHARD ALOMAR GAIL WONG

HEARTFELT THANKS TO OUR DEPARTING EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS In December 2021, three key people in our organization ended their terms on the Executive Board: Richard Alomar as President, Gail Wong as Treasurer, and Peggy Wong as Events Director. All three have been long-time urban sketchers and have been vital in enabling fiscal responsibility in our organization, grant program inception, and a Sketch Together event. Here they share thoughts on their tenures:

Peggy Wong: USk has given me the opportunity and platform to propose and grow new events that bring our community of urban sketchers closer together. We have seen over 900 global urban sketchers attending our 10th International Symposium, right before the world was brought to a halt by a pandemic. Recently, as the world slowly recovers, we kicked off the first 24-hour USk Sketch Together event, celebrating our urban sketchers community around the world, showing the world one drawing at a time where they are. In line with celebrating our grass-root organization, brought together by our USk chapters, we launched the first USk Regional Events Grant program, with the objective of fostering a closer knit regional community of sketchers and enabling them to host events together. None of these activities would have been possible alone – but with the collaboration of all USk Execuitve Board members, Committees, and urban sketcher communities, everything becomes possible.

Gail Wong: I think the biggest contribution to USk during my tenure as Treasurer was in creating a budget and a formal process for budget requests and tracking expenditures. These make it easy to close out the year and send information to the bookkeeper and accountant to complete taxes in a timely fashion so as to forecast the financial health of the organization.

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When you write and draw various landscapes and lifestyles of every corner of a city, you will see things never seen before and realize facts never known before. With this book, we would like to let you know how enjoyable it is to record these experiences as sketches. That’s why we want to do urban sketching together with you. We think Incheon is a city that constantly provides various interesting places to draw, from the old historical remains to the modern cutting-edge cityscapes. Urbansketchers Incheon, To Draw Incheon is the first book that collects our drawings and records from all around Incheon, from 2018 to 2021. We think it is meaningful as the first book in Korea published by an official USk Chapter rather than by an individual.

This book has 16 chapters and shows various locations of Incheon where the official sketchwalks and unofficial meetings were held. In order to enhance understanding of Urban Sketching, we have included a few pages introducing Urban Sketchers and how to contact Korean USk Chapters. With this book, we hope that more and more people can participate in Urban Sketchers without fear. Even if it is published only in Korean at this time, we would soon like to publish a revised English version with more places, including Ganghwa Island.

어반스케쳐스인천, 인천을 보고 그리다-첫번째 책 “도시의 곳곳에서 다양한 풍경과 삶의 모습을 글과 그림으로 표현하다 보면 보이지 않던 것을 보게 되고 몰랐던 것들도 새로이 알게 됩니다. 이런 경험들을 스케치로 남긴다는 것이 얼마나 즐거운 일인지를 이 책을 통해 여러분들께 알려드리고 싶습니다. 이런 즐거움을 함께 나누고 싶은 것이 바로 여러분들과 함께 어반스케치를 하고 싶은 이유입니다.” “오래된 역사와 근현대사의 흔적이 남아있는 공간부터 낡은 것들 사이에서 새롭고 현대적인 도시의 모습까지, 어반스케쳐의 입장에서는 다양하게 그릴 장소와 공간을 끊임없이 제공해 주는 도시, 그 곳이 바로 인천이라는 생각이 듭니다.” - 서문 중에서 드로잉 인천 어반스케쳐스 첫번째 책은 본격적인 활동을 시작한 2018년부터 2021년까지 인천 곳곳을 누비며 그림으로 기록한 내용을 모은 첫번째 책입니다. 한국에서 개인이 아닌 챕터에서 낸 첫번째 책으로 의미가 있다고 생각합니다. 이 책은 총 16개의 장으로 구성되어 있으며 그동안 어반스케쳐스인천 챕터 정모와 다양한 모임을 통해서 진행한 장소를 담고 있습니다. 또한 어반스케쳐스에 대한 이해를 높이기 위해 한국에 있는 여러 챕터들의 감수를 거쳐 어반스케쳐스와 어반스케치를 접근하는 방법 등을 한글로 소개하고 있는 페이지를 뒷쪽에 실었습니다. 우리는 이 책을 통해 좀 더 다양한 사람들이 어반스케치를 두려워하지 않고 참여할 수 있기를 기대하고 있습니다. 이 책은 한글로만 구성되어 있으며, 이후 기회가 된다면 강화도나 그밖에 실리지 않은 지역들을 추가하여 영문판으로 발행하고 싶습니다.