Urban Sketchers
Community Group
Waterloo Region
Urban Sketchers is a global community of sketchers dedicated to the practice of on-location drawing, capturing what we see from direct observation. We share our love for the places where we live and travel, one drawing at a time. The USk mission is to raise the artistic, storytelling, and educational value of on-location drawing, promoting its practice and connecting people by supporting each other and drawing together.
“Our gait is as personal as a fingerprint, and so are our multiple itineraries. Knowledge is grown along the myriad of paths we take”
— Tim Ingold
“Architecture is thus read as having the capacity to induce slow speeds, to inhabit silences, to trace new cultural vacancies and derelict spaces.”
— Felicity D. Scott
“Understanding cities and architecture – and communicating that understanding – involves telling real stories about real places…”
— Borden, Kerr, Pivaro, & Rendell
“Only an awareness of the influences of the existing environment can encourage the critique of the present conditions of daily life…”
— Sadie Plant
“It’s from the fragments,
the forgotten bits, that you actually read the world”
— Borden, Kerr, Pivaro, & Rendell