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The article profiles a seminar class on drawing at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. Professor Sue Ferguson Gussow teaches an advanced drawing seminar that combines aspects of critique, art-history instruction, and group therapy. Architecture students in the course choose to draw subjects in detail and study the process of drawing. The author suggests that Gussow expects hard work from students but the class environment is casual. Other topics include freehand drawing, the influence of color, the language of drawing, and academic reputation.

The article profiles Lois Mailou Jones, an influential artist and teacher. Topics include that she attained notoriety for her art while living as a black expatriate during the 1930s and 1940s in Paris, France; that she was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance movement and her art was influenced by different mediums, techniques, and influences.

The article reports on the author's practice of drawing on newspapers and trying to complete a picture. The pictures on which the author has made drawings are presented. The images appeared in The "New York Times" in April including a gathering at the Washington Monument before the March for Science and Canine participants in New York's Easter Parade and Unfinished buildings at a site in Mexico where Ford had planned a factory.

The author presents a review of the exhibition "Teaching America to Draw," at the Grolier Club of New York in New York City.

Focuses on the Society of Illustrators in New York City, a century-old organization that holds sketching classes for artists that are open to the general public. Review of the organization's history; Comments from visitors to the sketch classes; Comments from society president Richard Berenson; View that the society is an important part of New York City culture.

The article presents information about French artist Louis de Carmontelle and discusses his artistic styles and themes. Born in 1717 in France, Carmontelle imbued himself in the French society of the times and his drawings bear an impression of the same. He was famous for his transparent drawings for which he used water color, gouache, and a special gum. He also wrote art criticism, staged plays, and did portrait painting.

Focuses on a study which measured the artistic talent of an artist. Information on Humphrey Ocean, an English figurative painter; Details on his works displayed at the National Portrait Gallery; Processes involved in sketching; Secrets of the creative process.