Become a member and save up to 30% on your program registration price! Join today If you are already a member, log in to access your member price. Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art Place and Perspective Morning Course Tuesday, March 17, 2026 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET Code: 1K0688 Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Select your Registration Login $40 Member 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 $50 Gen. Admission Adding to your cart... Add to cart Log in to add this program to your wishlist! A 10% processing fee will be applied at checkout. 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 Mary Hall Surface 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 a course of 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. The course has a limited enrollment to maximize interaction among the instructor and students. Surface is a teaching artist, playwright, theater director, and museum educator. She presents workshops nationwide in creative writing and drama as a Kennedy Center teaching artist, is a Chautauqua Institution Writer-in-Residence, and was a faculty member at Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom. Session Information Place and Perspective Explore the impact of place on a writer's perspective, inspired by 20th century African American artist Lois Mailou Jones’ The Green Door. Additional Sessions March 3: First Person: Monologues and More March 10: Collage and Poetry General Information View Common FAQs and Policies about our Online Programs on Zoom.