Upcoming Online Workshops to Create Without Constraints this Winter
For those who may not be aware, the Fine Arts Work Center offers a dedicated program for virtual workshops. At 24PearlStreet, you can find a variety of online workshops, events, resources, and community support. This platform provides everything you need to enhance your craft and connect with fellow readers and writers, no matter where you are, year-round.
Molly Akin, a student in our Fall session, shared her experience about Airea D. Matthews’s workshop on “The Visual Poem”: “Airea’s reading selections were wide-ranging and helped me think more expansively about the relationship between the visual and literary. Thoughtful prompts pushed my craft, and Airea’s suggestions for strengthening my work were incredibly helpful.”
Whether you’re an aspiring writer or looking for the perfect gift for a writer in your life, we have an exciting lineup of contemporary voices in literature and visual arts to inspire you.
Below, you’ll find a sneak preview of three of our upcoming workshops.
Sprint Memoir Workshop: The Art of Navel Gazing –
A Generative Seminar
Saturday, March 1
12 – 2 PM (Eastern Time)
Tuition: $150
Do you suspect the most urgent story you have to tell is your own, but fear that writing a memoir is too vulnerable an undertaking? Join Melissa Febos in a two-hour seminar on The Art of Navel Gazing in which participants will write from places of intimate experience, interrogate inherited biases, and consider why personal writing might be exactly what we need right now.
Melissa Febos is the bestselling author of four books. Her fifth book, The Dry Season, is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. Her awards and fellowships include those from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lambda Literary, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in publications like The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. Febos teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
Pattern & Surprise: A Generative Workshop
Monday, February 24 – Friday, February 28
12 – 2 PM (Eastern Time)
Tuition: $575
This one-week poetry workshop, taught by Carl Phillips, will explore how poems are made by creating a pattern and unexpectedly interrupting it. By the end of the workshop, participants can expect to have four new poems and methods for generating fresh work and revising stalled drafts.
Carl Phillips is the author, most recently, of Scattered Snows, to the North and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Phillips’s other honors include the Los Angeles Times Book Award and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Library of Congress. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing. After over thirty years teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, Phillips lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Sprint Visual Arts Workshop: Professional Practices for Visual Artists – Building & Sustaining a Career
Saturday, February 15
12 – 3 PM (Eastern Time)
Tuition: $225
This three-hour workshop, led by Jess T. Dugan, will provide an overview of essential professional practices for visual artists. Topics covered include sustaining a practice, working with galleries and museums, and writing artist statements, bios, and CVs.
Jess T. Dugan is an artist and writer whose work explores the complexities of personhood, relationships, desire, love, and family. Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over 60 museums. Over the past fifteen years, they have built a sustainable career as a visual artist and have extensive experience working with museums, galleries, universities and nonprofit organizations, publishers, and press outlets. They are passionate about sharing the professional knowledge they’ve acquired throughout their career with other artists.
We will be featuring more workshops on our Instagram account in the coming weeks. Registration for these new workshops will open on Wednesday, December 4, 2024.
Learn more here and be the first to receive registration details, please visit this page for more details.
