The Farm by Joan Miró 1922 (Photo: tonynetone/flickr/CCBY2.0)
Save when you purchase the Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art summer series!
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 series 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. 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 and a writer for Arena Stage’s recent films, May 22, 2020 and The 51st State.
Session Information
Memory, Identity, and Setting
Take inspiration for memoir writing from 20th-century Catalan artist Joan Miró’s painted visual memoir, The Farm.
Additional Sessions
Patron Information
- If you register multiple individuals, you will be asked to supply individual names and email addresses so they can receive a Zoom link email. Please note that if there is a change in program schedule or a cancellation, we will notify you via email, and it will be your responsibility to notify other registrants in your group.
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