This highly collaborative workshop, open to both new and returning students, provides time and space to explore the dynamic relationship between writing and image making. Through a series of weekly creative prompts, students spontaneously generate new and innovative work in a collaborative, supportive setting that encourages risk taking.
There is a long and storied history of photographers and visual artists using the written word to deepen and expand the meaning and experience of their images. Dorothea Lange said, “All photographs—not only those that are so-called ‘documentary’…can be fortified by words.”
This highly collaborative workshop, open to both new and returning students, provides time and space to explore the dynamic relationship between writing and image making. Through a series of weekly creative prompts, students will spontaneously generate new and innovative work in a collaborative, supportive setting that encourages risk taking both in writing and image making. Workshop participants will also review books and fine art projects of master visual artists, photographers and writers working in a variety of text/image forms.
Students will leave the course with a deeper understanding of how to use writing to enrich their image-making process and to fully amplify their unique voice—whether beginning or revisiting this hybrid form—with fresh perspective. Feedback is highly individualized and all levels of visual artists, photographers and writers are encouraged to attend.
