{"id":227196,"date":"2025-09-14T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227196\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:26:08","slug":"draw-together-mini-fest-brings-together-art-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227196\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw Together Mini Fest brings together art &#038; community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 Draw Together Jax, formerly known as Drink and Draw Jax, brought artists and community members together Sunday for the first-ever Draw Together Mini Fest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The social, art-based fundraiser was designed not only to showcase creativity but also to support GAAM Good, a Jacksonville nonprofit that uses gaming culture to boost community well-being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Festival activities included quick-draw challenges, sidewalk chalk art and lessons for beginners \u2014 like learning how to draw a Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got something for you, whether we\u2019re teaching how to draw a Pok\u00e9mon or doing a quick draw where everybody only has five minutes to draw a stranger,\u201d said Ryan Thompson, founder of GAAM Good. \u201cKeep everything fun, and make sure that no matter what your skill level, you have something you can do and some way to interact with other artists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Families also joined in on the fun. Derrick Brown, who attended with his daughter Chanise, said the event was the perfect outlet for her creativity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m glad something like this is coming to Jacksonville,\u201d Brown said. \u201cMy daughter, she\u2019s an artist, an event like this, right up her alley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Chanise Brown, meanwhile, sketched a self-portrait. \u201cI think it\u2019s like expressing myself through drawing in strokes of a pen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Draw Together Mini Fest marked the group\u2019s first official festival under its new name, with plans to continue blending creativity, community and culture in future events.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Draw Together Jax, formerly known as Drink and Draw Jax, brought artists and community members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,718,8314,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-227196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-duval-county","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115205006115035291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}