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The Fantastic Ekphrastic Writing Workshop
March 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$160 – $240
Four Week Class — Wednesdays, March 4-25, 6-8 p.m.
ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
Facilitated by Alli Marshall (I&A Certified)
Sliding Scale Registration | $160 / $200 / $240
Ekphrastic art is work made in response to another piece of artwork. It can be a poem jump-started by a painting, a song inspired by a sculpture or — to paraphrase a cliche — a dance about architecture. In this class, we’ll focus on flash fiction, flash essay, and prose poetry as our mediums of expression.
We’ll begin with a discussion of ekphrastic art and examples of it from our own bodies of work (it’s likely we’ve all made ekphrastic art, even if unintentionally). We’ll also talk about ekphrastic art as a means of collaboration with a knowing or unknowing fellow artist. And we’ll work on outlining and/or writing flash fiction pieces in response to several artistic works of various mediums.
From there, we’ll move on to creating short pieces that build off our ekphrastic explorations. Through in-class writing prompts, group writing exercises, and motivating assignments, we’ll develop our ekphrastic works into completed pieces.
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