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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

Symbol and Story

Morning Course

Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
Code: 1K0414
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This online program is presented on Zoom.
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The Voyage of Life: Childhood (detail) by Thomas Cole, 1842 (The National Gallery of Art)

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.

Surface is a teaching artist, playwright, and theatre director and producer. She presents workshops nationwide in creative writing, reflective writing and drama as a Kennedy Center teaching artist and museum educator. She was a faculty member at Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom.

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Symbol and Story

Discover the allegorical possibilities in 19th century American artist Thomas Cole’s four-painting series, The Voyage of Life when viewed from multiple points of view.

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