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 wide 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.
November 4 Shifting Perspectives
Explore how two different views of the same London subject by two French artists, Claude Monet and André Derain, can inspire multiple perspectives in your writing.
November 18 Surprising Stories
Discover how The Old Violin, a fascinating still life by 19th-century American artist William Michael Harnett, can evoke rich storytelling possibilities.
November 25 Capturing Memories
Journey into the evocative self-portraits of 20th century British-Mexican painter Leonora Carrington to inspire new ways to capture your own memories.
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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