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.
September 2 Sunlight, Shadow, and Story
Step into American artist John Singer Sargent's Breakfast in the Loggia to explore how light, shadow, and more can inspire characters and story.
September 9 Surprise, Connect, and Experiment
Dive into Robert Rauschenberg’s fascinating Urban/Interior Network/ROCI VENEZUELA, and engage with his experimental, collaborative spirit to try new ways of imagining and writing.
September 16 Journey, Imagine, and Dream
Journey into the images and juxtapositions in the prints of Dominican artist Scherezade García, including Day Dreaming/Soñando despierta, to explore place and time.
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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