Monster Drawing Rally at Spaces

What’s black and white and awesome all over? Space’s Monster Drawing Rally, which makes a spectacle of the usually private act of artistic creation. Through four hour-long shifts, thirty artists at a time will make everything they can with pencil, charcoal, and blank paper. When each piece is completed, it will be mounted on the wall and displayed for sale. It’s the best art deal of the year: All the evening’s creations will go for $70 (tax included), and all proceeds will benefit Space’s exhibition and residency programs. The roster includes luminaries like Dexter Davis, Matt Dibble, Christi Birchfield, Liz Maugans, and Dana Oldfather — along with nearly a hundred more creatives with styles ranging from the highest of high brows to funny-book pop and abstract avant-garde. If your kid wants to go to the arts, you can give him or her a leg-up by making sure their first exhibit is at Spaces. Just plunk him or her down at the Lil’ Monster Drawing Rally, a kids’ workstation where the offspring can create and display their own sketches and coloring. Watch the pencils dance from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight at Spaces. If you can’t make it then, works not sold tonight will be on display through April 8. Light refreshments and drinks will be available, and Touch Supper Club’s food truck will be parked outside. Admission is $5 for adults and free for anyone 17 or younger.