Become a member and save up to 27% 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 Discover Story Morning Course Tuesday, November 10, 2026 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET Code: 1K0740 Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Registration Options $45 Member $55 Gen. Admission Log in to register for this program or to add it to your wishlist! Log in 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 Lady with a Bowl of Violets (detail) by Lilla Cabot Perry, 1910 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 Discover Story Pair paintings by the American Impressionist Lilla Cabot Perry with writings by the Gilded Age author Edith Wharton to discover rich narrative possibilities. Additional Sessions November 3: Imagine Character November 17: Capture Sensation General Information View Common FAQs and Policies about our Online Programs on Zoom.
