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Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art

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Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art
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Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art

Collage and Poetry

Morning Course

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
Code: 1K0687
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This online program is presented on Zoom.
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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.

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Collage and Poetry

Experience how the layers of contemporary Columbian-born artist María Berrío’s collage, A Sunburst Restrained, can inspire multiple forms of poetry.

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