On Oct. 12, several BYU artists arrived at the BYU Bean Museum to participate in the museum’s “Drawing Dead Things” night. Warm yellow light cascaded down on the different animal displays and students ...

“It’s OK to draw dead as long as the pot is big enough,” goes the old saying. Of course, it’s meant to be a joke. Drawing dead is, well, it’s drawing dead; you can’t win and your bets are dead money.

Is drawing dead? That was the burning question (and title) of last weekend’s symposium at the Yale School of Architecture, which assessed the contemporary state of drawing through three days of ...