UBS proudly presents Rita Sabler in conversation with Gabriel Campanario

4326 University Way Northeast,Seattle WA 98105

20 March, 2023

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Listen to the stories behind the images of this vibrant city and learn new techniques to capture your surrounding wherever you are. MARCH 20TH IN STORE EVENT SPECIAL: with a purchase of New York Reawakens: A Summer of Hope, you will receive 10% off all art supplies purchased at the same time! This event is free to attend, though registration is required through the link provided. We encourage all attendees to wear masks during the event and maintain social distancing. If you have questions about this event, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for supporting your local independent bookstore. In New York Reawakens: A Summer of Hope, Portland-based reportage artist Rita Sabler captures a slice of life in the Big Apple at a pivotal time in the city’s history: the end of the pandemic lockdown in the summer of 2021 and the slow return of scenes we used to take for granted. Live music at the clubs, a parade, friends and families coming together again — ordinary moments become extraordinary in the context of the pandemic. Sabler describes the atmosphere of New York reawakening with both her words and her ink-and-watercolor drawings, taking readers on a tour of iconic locations like the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, Little Island, Chinatown, Coney Island and many other spots. In the Flatiron District, colorful café umbrellas welcomed patrons again. As she sketched, “a group of women unfolded their yoga mats. A fitness class was about to start under the open sky, in the middle of Manhattan.” Near Brighton Bridge, she drew locals carrying their shopping on a market street “peppered with natural medicine stores, fruit stands and small restaurants serving pelmeni and cabbage rolls.” The drawings are reproduced at near actual size, giving readers the closest experience to browsing Sabler’s original A4-size sketchbooks. Rita’s book, New York Reawakens, is the first book from their newly established publisher, Sketcher Press. Rita Sabler is a visual journalist, artist and educator based in Portland, Oregon, USA. She has taught drawing, urban sketching and visual journalism courses for Parsons School of Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art and Portland State University. Sabler’s reportage on Hawaii’s Kalaupapa Settlement won the Doctors Without Borders Coup De Coeur and the International Sketchbook Prize at the 2019 Rendez-vous du Carnet de Voyage in Clermont-Ferrand. Gabriel “Gabi” Campanario is a Spanish-American journalist, illustrator and publisher best known for his storytelling sketches of the Seattle area —which appeared weekly in The Seattle Times between 2009 and 2021; and for his role as the founder of Urban Sketchers, a global organization of artists who aim to “show the world, one drawing at a time” through on-the-spot sketching and reportage. He is the author of “Seattle Sketcher: An Illustrated Journal,” and “The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around the World.”