Summer Workshop Program 2023

Ronaldo Wilson Composing Across Fields: Writing, Art, and Performance August 6 to August 12, 2023 Tuition: $800.00 Workshop: 9am - 12pm Discipline: Multi-Genre OPEN TO ALL On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

Across writing, visual, and sound art, students will engage with the work of interdisciplinary writers and artists: Krista Franklin, Cecilia Vicuña, Addie Tsai, and Guillermo Goméz Peña, among others, by way of close study and interdisciplinary prompts (exploring images and objects; taking walks, notes, recordings, and making video) as methods to create their own interdisciplinary compositions of writing, art, and performance. Students will create two to three hybrid works, and/or performances inspired by their encounters.

Biography

Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; Lucy 72; Carmelina: Figures; and Virgil Kills: Stories. Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz; principal faculty of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media).