NDMOA - Drawing Workshop with Graffiti Artist, SHOCK UC MSK

The North Dakota Museum of Art invites the public for a Drawing Workshop featuring artist, SHOCK UC MSK, whose work is on display in the current exhibition, Re-arming Language: Post-graffiti Artists. Shock lives and works between New York and everywhere else. He is a painter, sculptor, and multidisciplinary artist whose practice stems from the long tradition of graffiti writing. A member of the legendary MSK crew, Shock has spent the past two decades building a body of work rooted in movement, adaptation, and raw creative force. The Drawing Session will be held in the Museum galleries, Friday, Aptil 10, 10 am – 1 pm. Registration is required.

The Drawing Session is limited to twenty people and registration is required, with a $25 fee. Must be 16 years old and above to register. The workshop will include Shock talking specifically about drawing as a way to prompt participants into experimentation and creating. The workshop will emphasize collaboration and exchange while encouraging participants to build off each other’s pieces. Shock will demonstrate and provide one-on-one guidance and feedback throughout the session. Snacks and beverages will be provided. Register at ndmoa.com/shock or by calling the Museum at 701-777-4195.

About SHOCK UC MSK: Born in the Midwest and raised between cityscapes, Shock’s early education came from walls, rooftops, freight yards, and underground publications. He developed a reputation not just for his distinctive visual style, but for his relentless work ethic and commitment to the evolution of the form. His current practice spans painting, sculpture, video, printmaking, sound, installation, design, and performance.

Shock’s work navigates the space between personal myth and public language. Equally informed by graffiti’s coded systems and painting’s formal concerns, his work refuses categorization. Whether abstract or figurative, still or moving, it remains unmistakably his: layered, immediate, and emotionally precise.

A respected figure in both underground and institutional spaces, Shock has exhibited nationally and continues to produce ambitious projects across disciplines. His work resists convention, favors intuition, and reflects the world back to us—unfiltered, layered, and alive.