ASTORIA Dana Dart-McLean will offer a free drawing workshop for children ages 5 to 12 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday, July 15, at KALA, 1017 Marine Drive. Parents are welcome to stay and participate and materials will be supplied.

The objective of the workshop is to explore philosophical and poetic concepts through imagery and texts centering on cultural theorist Paul Virilio’s understanding of the ocean as an event in consciousness. The workshop will present a journey through texts and images exploring the ocean as the origin of life, a source of inspiration for artists and writers, a resource that is sometimes misused, a place to float and an experience of force and massive scale.

The workshop will be limited to 10 to 12 children. Call (503) 440-3007 to reserve a space and for more information.

Dart-McLean is a painter, writer and art educator living in New York. She has shown her work in Portland, Chicago and Copenhagen and has taught art in the Portland Public Schools, Portland Art Museum and at DIA: Beacon Museum, N.Y., in addition to community centers and conferences in Portland. Her works will be on exhibit at KALA from July 14 to Aug. 5.