# Event Details - **Event Name**: Lost and Found: A Charcoal Self-Portrait Workshop Aug. 24 - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 24 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Mon, 24 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: A beginner-friendly evening of charcoal portraiture at Dear Friend Books. Draw your own face, take it home. All materials included.About this EventYou think you can't draw your own face. This is the room where that stops being true!Lost and Found is a beginner-friendly charcoal workshop where you'll draw your own self-portrait from a mirror, guided start to finish. No experience needed and all levels of expertise are welcome. We work on toned grey paper in the Dear Friend backyard, charcoal in hand, tea or wine from the bar within reach. With two focused hours, there's real time to build the portrait the way it deserves — layer by layer, light and shadow — until it's finished, fixed, and ready to carry home.What's includedEverything. Charcoal, paper, mirrors, and all materials are provided — just bring yourself. You'll leave with a finished self-portrait that's yours to keep. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/lost-and-found-a-charcoal-self-portrait-workshop-aug-24/100001995687025616 - **Event Categories**: workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: dear friend books - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 55.2, max: 55.2, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: dear friend books - **lat**: 40.686028 - **long**: -73.9441743 - **full address**: dear friend books, 343A Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Lost and Found: A Charcoal Self-Portrait Workshop Aug. 24 - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/b9e95896539b7de5bb96e0f743efb18db61b8346cb788d833c63ec5aac9bee58-rimg-w1200-h1600-dcf8f8e8-gmir.jpg?v=1785823598 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Lost and Found: A Charcoal Self-Portrait Workshop Aug. 24 being held? - **A:** Lost and Found: A Charcoal Self-Portrait Workshop Aug. 24 takes place on Mon, 24 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Mon, 24 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 pm at dear friend books, 343A Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Lost and Found: A Charcoal Self-Portrait Workshop Aug. 24? - **A:** Lost and Found: A Charcoal Self-Portrait Workshop Aug. 24 is organized by Victorious McLeod. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Lost and Found: A Charcoal Self-Portrait Workshop Aug. 24 is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Brooklyn, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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Self-portraiture across painting and film, one practice in two materials. The Dreamer juried into the 27th Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition (African American Museum, Dallas, 2023). Crayons screened at Black Harvest Film Festival / Gene Siskel Film Center (2023) and Newport Beach Film Festival (2025). Apprenticed under David Molesky (2018) and Richard T. Scott (2017). United Arts Individual Artist Grant (2023). Paintings sold through Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, and into private collections.\" I paint myself, and the painting is the work of repair. Not a picture of repair — the act of it. The self-portrait is the method, not the subject. I use it the way speech therapy uses a mirror: you can't correct what you can't see, so you put the self in front of the self and study it until something moves.That's what each canvas is — a session. I take a part of me that's been carried since childhood — ADHD, the pride and bravery he armored himself with, the states he learned to dissociate into — and I stand it up where I can look at it. Painting it is how I work it. The Shogun. The Day Dreamer. Self Portrait in the Winter. Each one a position I had to hold long enough to paint my way out of.Self Care is the current series, and the title is literal. The anchor is a dual self-portrait: me, now, holding me as a child. My short film Crayons is that child alone — late-nineties Florida, a Black boy learning to use art the way other boys learn to use fists. The film documents the wound. The paintings are the tending of it.These are art therapy principles used as craft — the mirror, the externalized self, the image you make so you can finally look at it without flinching. This is what care looks like when you make it with your hands.\"For All inquiries and General Information, please contact me at info@victoriousmcleod.com" } ] } ] ```