This program is over. Hope you didn't miss it! Browse other programs we offer Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art Symbol and Story Morning Course Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET Code: 1K0414 Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Select your Registration $40 Member $45 Non-Member Save when you purchase this program as a part of one of these series! 3 Program Series: Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art View series details Resize text The Voyage of Life: Childhood (detail) by Thomas Cole, 1842 (The National Gallery of Art) Discover how visual art can inspire creative writing and how writing can offer a powerful way to experience art. Join Mary Hall Surface, the founding instructor of the National Gallery of Art’s popular Writing Salon, for three online workshops that explore essential elements of writing and styles through close looking, word-sketching, and imaginative response to prompts. The sessions spotlight a diverse range of visual art chosen to inspire writers of all experience levels to deepen their process and practice. Each workshop has a limited enrollment to maximize interaction among the instructor and students. Surface is a teaching artist, playwright, and theatre director and producer. She presents workshops nationwide in creative writing, reflective writing and drama as a Kennedy Center teaching artist and museum educator. She was a faculty member at Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom. Session Information Symbol and Story Discover the allegorical possibilities in 19th century American artist Thomas Cole’s four-painting series, The Voyage of Life when viewed from multiple points of view. Additional Sessions October 24: Collage and Poetry November 7: Place and Perspective General Information View Common FAQs and Policies about our Online Programs on Zoom.