The Drawing Club was founded in 2010 as a space dedicated to training, reflection, discussion and dissemination of drawing.

Founded by artists Carlos Pinheiro, Marco Mendes, Nuno Sousa and Sofia Barreira, the Drawing Club has provided training activities in this area throughout its existence, with the collaboration of various artists, teachers and drawing researchers.

Since 2020, the Drawing Club has been based at Rua da Alegria in Porto, adding to its training programme an Exhibition Space and a Studio space with 7 resident artists - Carlos Pinheiro, Daniel Silvestre, Diogo Nogueira, Irene Loureiro, Jiôn Kiim, Marco Mendes and Nuno Sousa.