All materials will be provided, participants will be drawing with oil pastels on paper. The workshop is limited to 15 participants and advance registration is required here.

The event will take place in the upper galleries of WCMA. Visitors can enter through the main museum door and will need to take stairs or an elevator up to the upper level galleries. There is limited parking directly outside the museum on Lawrence Hall Drive but ample parking nearby on public streets and in public lots. Please refer to the map on our Visit page for other parking options.

Pallavi Sen was born in New Delhi in 1989, and spent her childhood between Delhi and Bombay. An alumna of St. Xavier’s College, Bombay, she received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, and a BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio. Sen has participated in various prestigious artist residencies, including MacDowell, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Shandaken Projects, Mildred’s Lane, Ox-Bow, ACRE, and the Yale Norfolk School of Art, among others.

Currently, she serves as the Assistant Professor of Multiples + Distributed Art at Williams College, Massachusetts, and is the Dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine. Pallavi splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she lives and works.