Summer Workshop Program 2025
Attention participants!
Our new Tiered Tuition System asks you to choose one of the following tuition levels:
$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
Please reflect on your social and economic position before choosing a tuition level at checkout.
For more information on our new Tiered Tuition System, please click here.
Our new Tiered Tuition System asks you to choose one of the following tuition levels:
$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
Please reflect on your social and economic position before choosing a tuition level at checkout.
For more information on our new Tiered Tuition System, please click here.
Week 1: June 15 - 20
Megan Hinton
Painting Lab
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Our FAWC studio will be a productive and experimental laboratory for investigating the procedural, conceptual, art historical, and contemporary aspects of painting. This intensive painting workshop will consist of instructor demonstrations in traditional modes of painting like underpainting, glazing, scumbling, impasto, and color mixing. In addition, we’ll explore experimental painting methods like alternative surfaces, collage,... more
Painting Lab
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Our FAWC studio will be a productive and experimental laboratory for investigating the procedural, conceptual, art historical, and contemporary aspects of painting. This intensive painting workshop will consist of instructor demonstrations in traditional modes of painting like underpainting, glazing, scumbling, impasto, and color mixing. In addition, we’ll explore experimental painting methods like alternative surfaces, collage,... more
Pete Hocking
Painting Between Place & Memory
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Great landscape paintings inspire memory and feeling. They reveal something of the painter’s experience, but also provide opportunities for a viewer to bring memory and emotion into the picture. Direct, spontaneous picture-making (painting, drawing, photography) allows a painter to capture something ephemeral and unexpected, and slower work in the studio provides space for considered composition.... more
Painting Between Place & Memory
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Great landscape paintings inspire memory and feeling. They reveal something of the painter’s experience, but also provide opportunities for a viewer to bring memory and emotion into the picture. Direct, spontaneous picture-making (painting, drawing, photography) allows a painter to capture something ephemeral and unexpected, and slower work in the studio provides space for considered composition.... more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
We Begin. We End. We Begin Again: A Generative Week of Making (And Breaking) Poems.
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Half the time when we’re beginning something it’s already ending. Or. We’re anticipating its ending. And then we begin again. How rewarding. How frustrating. Isn’t it just like a poem to keep meeting us and leaving us? End stop. Line break. Breath pause. What a gift. In this workshop, we will spend a week in... more
We Begin. We End. We Begin Again: A Generative Week of Making (And Breaking) Poems.
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Half the time when we’re beginning something it’s already ending. Or. We’re anticipating its ending. And then we begin again. How rewarding. How frustrating. Isn’t it just like a poem to keep meeting us and leaving us? End stop. Line break. Breath pause. What a gift. In this workshop, we will spend a week in... more
Deborah Jackson Taffa
The Personal Essay as Public Performance
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This generative workshop tackles memoir as a political act. How do authors perform their remembrances to articulate not only a single consciousness but also a broader (tribal) experience of the world? If a good memoir tells us what happened, a great memoir reveals societal pressures at play. None of us are shaped in a vacuum,... more
The Personal Essay as Public Performance
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This generative workshop tackles memoir as a political act. How do authors perform their remembrances to articulate not only a single consciousness but also a broader (tribal) experience of the world? If a good memoir tells us what happened, a great memoir reveals societal pressures at play. None of us are shaped in a vacuum,... more
Seema Reza
Six Senses: Rituals of Creativity and Surprise
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This is a generative workshop for emerging and established memoirists, poets, and those writing in hybrid/experimental forms seeking strategies to access new perspectives and truths in their writing. Reading and discussing contemporary poetry, hybrid forms, and short essays/excerpts, we’ll find new angles on familiar stories. We’ll use writing prompts combined with meditation and visualization to... more
Six Senses: Rituals of Creativity and Surprise
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This is a generative workshop for emerging and established memoirists, poets, and those writing in hybrid/experimental forms seeking strategies to access new perspectives and truths in their writing. Reading and discussing contemporary poetry, hybrid forms, and short essays/excerpts, we’ll find new angles on familiar stories. We’ll use writing prompts combined with meditation and visualization to... more
Asako Serizawa
Wandering the Archives: A Generative Workshop
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 10 am - 1 pm
Open To All
What is an archive? How do we approach, enter, and draw from it to alchemize fiction? In this generative workshop designed to start/jumpstart a creative project inspired by archives, whether personal (e.g., family archive) or collective (e.g., national archive), we’ll look at photographs, letters, news articles, and other artifacts, as well as relevant excerpts of... more
Wandering the Archives: A Generative Workshop
June 15 to June 20, 2025
Time 10 am - 1 pm
Open To All
What is an archive? How do we approach, enter, and draw from it to alchemize fiction? In this generative workshop designed to start/jumpstart a creative project inspired by archives, whether personal (e.g., family archive) or collective (e.g., national archive), we’ll look at photographs, letters, news articles, and other artifacts, as well as relevant excerpts of... more
Week 2: June 22 - 27: Queer Week
Miriam Klein Stahl
Printing Our Queer & Trans Lineage
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This generative, collaborative workshop involves an introduction to printmaking and drawing processes using relief, papercut, lettering, and ink to create high contrast images of Queer and Trans ancestors and/or heroes. During the week, we’ll spend time researching, notating, and sharing about the ancestors and interlocutors who paved the way for us, learning an array of... more
Printing Our Queer & Trans Lineage
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This generative, collaborative workshop involves an introduction to printmaking and drawing processes using relief, papercut, lettering, and ink to create high contrast images of Queer and Trans ancestors and/or heroes. During the week, we’ll spend time researching, notating, and sharing about the ancestors and interlocutors who paved the way for us, learning an array of... more
Critique: Sequencing and Storytelling in Contemporary Photography
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this workshop we will explore the relationship between sequencing and storytelling in photography. This workshop aims to enhance the artist’s narrative skills and improve how to present work in both exhibitions and book formats. This will be a group critique focused on sequencing and narrative with a hands-on exploration of image placement and flow.... more
Ilana Savdie
The Monstrous Body
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop will focus on how to understand the way our bodies relate to the world through touch, through image, and through material instincts. It will use the history of collage, assemblage and decollage as a way of imagining new configurations of the self. We will be exploring method and meaning in art making, the... more
The Monstrous Body
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop will focus on how to understand the way our bodies relate to the world through touch, through image, and through material instincts. It will use the history of collage, assemblage and decollage as a way of imagining new configurations of the self. We will be exploring method and meaning in art making, the... more
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Catching Up With Yourself
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Poets often express that a piece has succeeded when it is genuinely surprising. Sometimes we are pointing to formal or narrative surprise but, just as often, the surprise comes from the writing’s disclosure of something the writer themself did not yet know. Poetry, that is, is a way of accessing and giving form to the... more
Catching Up With Yourself
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Poets often express that a piece has succeeded when it is genuinely surprising. Sometimes we are pointing to formal or narrative surprise but, just as often, the surprise comes from the writing’s disclosure of something the writer themself did not yet know. Poetry, that is, is a way of accessing and giving form to the... more
Alexander Chee, associate professor of English and creative writing
Alexander Chee
Resurrections
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop is about returning to a piece of fiction you have struggled with and set aside–returning to it and bringing it back to life. We will look for ways to complete this work, including inner blocks, needed research, and methods for reconsidering an older work and how we might renovate it entirely. We will... more
Resurrections
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop is about returning to a piece of fiction you have struggled with and set aside–returning to it and bringing it back to life. We will look for ways to complete this work, including inner blocks, needed research, and methods for reconsidering an older work and how we might renovate it entirely. We will... more
Andrea Lawlor
Writing Into Queer & Trans Lineage
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this generative workshop, we will draw inspiration from our queer & trans ancestors and interlocutors, writing into conversations and communities that feel most relevant to us. We’ll play with pastiche, homage, epistolary forms, adaptation, and more. Our time together is designed to support writers with ongoing projects as well as writers looking to jumpstart... more
Writing Into Queer & Trans Lineage
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this generative workshop, we will draw inspiration from our queer & trans ancestors and interlocutors, writing into conversations and communities that feel most relevant to us. We’ll play with pastiche, homage, epistolary forms, adaptation, and more. Our time together is designed to support writers with ongoing projects as well as writers looking to jumpstart... more
Celeste Lecesne
Queering Story
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Every story we tell is the myth of our lives struggling to be heard. This workshop is designed to explore your individual myth, give voice to your emotional, political, and personal truth, and create a structure that will carry your story into the world. As LGBTQIA+ people of the 21st Century, we have a unique... more
Queering Story
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Every story we tell is the myth of our lives struggling to be heard. This workshop is designed to explore your individual myth, give voice to your emotional, political, and personal truth, and create a structure that will carry your story into the world. As LGBTQIA+ people of the 21st Century, we have a unique... more
Carmen Maria Machado
The Monstrous Body
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this workshop, we will explore the body’s ecstasies, vagaries, monstrosities, and failures. Participants will be encouraged to use both fiction and nonfiction to unpack questions like: How does the body hold texture, memory, metaphor? What is our relationship to the bodies of others? What can the genre of body horror teach us about ourselves?... more
The Monstrous Body
June 22 to June 27, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this workshop, we will explore the body’s ecstasies, vagaries, monstrosities, and failures. Participants will be encouraged to use both fiction and nonfiction to unpack questions like: How does the body hold texture, memory, metaphor? What is our relationship to the bodies of others? What can the genre of body horror teach us about ourselves?... more
Week 3: June 29 - July 4
Cecilia Ruiz
Block Printing for Illustrators
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this workshop, we will explore how to create images with the block-printing technique, using a softer version of linoleum that is easier to carve for artists of all levels. We will look at spot-color printing techniques from old and contemporary artists to gain a better understanding of working graphically in a limited color palette.... more
Block Printing for Illustrators
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this workshop, we will explore how to create images with the block-printing technique, using a softer version of linoleum that is easier to carve for artists of all levels. We will look at spot-color printing techniques from old and contemporary artists to gain a better understanding of working graphically in a limited color palette.... more
Color Lab
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Dive into color studies in this week-long workshop that uncovers the mesmerizing nature of color principles and color relativity. We’ll combine fun, approachable exercises in paint-mixing and collage, interspersed with slideshows that present vivid visual examples from the great early color theorists, science, folk art, textiles, and art history. During class, we’ll cover the basics... more
Janine Wong
Sketchbooks: Figures of Thought
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop focuses on the sketchbook as an essential tool for collecting and developing ideas. Participants will learn about various types of sketchbooks—journals, field notebooks, travel logs, scrapbooks, and commonplace books—and explore how to bind their own. Inspired by renowned artists, we will discuss what to include in your sketchbook and how to foster creativity... more
Sketchbooks: Figures of Thought
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop focuses on the sketchbook as an essential tool for collecting and developing ideas. Participants will learn about various types of sketchbooks—journals, field notebooks, travel logs, scrapbooks, and commonplace books—and explore how to bind their own. Inspired by renowned artists, we will discuss what to include in your sketchbook and how to foster creativity... more
Audacity, Excess, & Extravagance
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This is a poetry workshop about subverting expectations, breaking patterns, and doing too much. How do we write poems that crack through the haze of decorum? How do we say it like it is, but without reproducing cliches? How do we render emotional intensity in our craft, not just our content? That is: how do... more
Read to Write
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop will explore the ways “reading to write” can result in new poems and new revisions of stalled poems. During the week we will look at how an assortment of poems imitate and are in conversation with other poems and other forms (music, film, journalism) and generate our own inventive imitations in class. more
Susanna Sonnenberg
Trust your Life: How to Risk Memoir
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Open to published authors and brand-new writers, this is a rigorous workshop that combines prompts and in-class discussion of written work. The workshop is designed to challenge your censors and shake up your habits, and, most importantly, to encourage you to trust yourself as a writer. You will have homework daily, both as writing and... more
Trust your Life: How to Risk Memoir
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Open to published authors and brand-new writers, this is a rigorous workshop that combines prompts and in-class discussion of written work. The workshop is designed to challenge your censors and shake up your habits, and, most importantly, to encourage you to trust yourself as a writer. You will have homework daily, both as writing and... more
Joan Wickersham
Voice, Character, Shape
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
What makes a piece of fiction or memoir feel alive? The storytelling voice. The precise, vivid evocation of character. The structure and pacing of the narrative. In this generative workshop we will be reading a selection of short works and excerpts from published pieces by a range of authors, and looking closely at how the... more
Voice, Character, Shape
June 29 to July 4, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
What makes a piece of fiction or memoir feel alive? The storytelling voice. The precise, vivid evocation of character. The structure and pacing of the narrative. In this generative workshop we will be reading a selection of short works and excerpts from published pieces by a range of authors, and looking closely at how the... more
Week 4: July 6 - 11 QUEER WEEK
James Stroud
Jump Start Etching
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
In this Master Printer Series workshop, participants will get far into the etching process by transferring drawings from clear films to copper plates coated with a photosensitive resist. Once the plates are processed photographically and etched into the plates, they can be developed further by using traditional etching techniques. Photo-copper plates will be available from... more
Jump Start Etching
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
In this Master Printer Series workshop, participants will get far into the etching process by transferring drawings from clear films to copper plates coated with a photosensitive resist. Once the plates are processed photographically and etched into the plates, they can be developed further by using traditional etching techniques. Photo-copper plates will be available from... more
Zehra Khan
Multimedia Experiments
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop challenges your art making habits through experiments and play with multi-media, process, and output. We will use unconventional materials (found objects, organic matter, land/environment), try varied processes (drawing, sculpture, text, performance, photography, video, collaboration), and discuss the different experiences of creative output (online, in-real-life, gallery, museum, public, permanent/impermanent.) Through experiments with the unfamiliar... more
Multimedia Experiments
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop challenges your art making habits through experiments and play with multi-media, process, and output. We will use unconventional materials (found objects, organic matter, land/environment), try varied processes (drawing, sculpture, text, performance, photography, video, collaboration), and discuss the different experiences of creative output (online, in-real-life, gallery, museum, public, permanent/impermanent.) Through experiments with the unfamiliar... more
Forrest Williams
Painting the Figure
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
We will paint each day from the live model. Students will create a basic palette from direct observation of the model, using oil paint and working on either canvas or panel (your choice). Students will receive individual instruction as they develop two figurative paintings over the course of the week. We will emphasize the basic... more
Painting the Figure
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
We will paint each day from the live model. Students will create a basic palette from direct observation of the model, using oil paint and working on either canvas or panel (your choice). Students will receive individual instruction as they develop two figurative paintings over the course of the week. We will emphasize the basic... more
Feeling Out of Place
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
As writers, we strive to make magic, to elicit emotions using only strokes of ink. By employing our own bodies in the crafting of new worlds, new experiences, and new energy, we empower our stories to invoke a corporeal experience that is rooted in place. We will explore methods for infusing physical sensation and environmental... more
Photo: Beowulf Sheehan
Kimiko Hahn
Mixing It Up: The Hybrid Text
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Hybridity involves mixing genres and even media (text and visuals). Is this inclination where you find yourself, or a realm that you’d like to explore? In this generative workshop, we begin each day with examples to use as prompts. You can expect to write new material, to rip up old stuff, and even research random-seeming... more
Mixing It Up: The Hybrid Text
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Hybridity involves mixing genres and even media (text and visuals). Is this inclination where you find yourself, or a realm that you’d like to explore? In this generative workshop, we begin each day with examples to use as prompts. You can expect to write new material, to rip up old stuff, and even research random-seeming... more
Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Dante Micheaux
Poetic Time
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Some poems are forever—and readers usually attribute this ‘permanence’ to equating the emotions of the poet/speaker with those of their own. What if the permanence has nothing to do with the poet’s emotion at all but is, instead, a feature of their technical craft? In this workshop, we will explore texts by poets such as... more
Poetic Time
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Some poems are forever—and readers usually attribute this ‘permanence’ to equating the emotions of the poet/speaker with those of their own. What if the permanence has nothing to do with the poet’s emotion at all but is, instead, a feature of their technical craft? In this workshop, we will explore texts by poets such as... more
Michelle Tea
Writing for Witches
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Writing for Witches is a generative writing workshop focusing on and incorporating elements of magic, mysticism and ritual. Each day, students will engage with prompts from literature, tarot and magical traditions to create fresh work exploring the mystical, supernatural, fantastical, mythological and psycho-emotional dimensions of our lives. We will connect with spiritual yearning, practice meditation,... more
Writing for Witches
July 6 to July 11, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Writing for Witches is a generative writing workshop focusing on and incorporating elements of magic, mysticism and ritual. Each day, students will engage with prompts from literature, tarot and magical traditions to create fresh work exploring the mystical, supernatural, fantastical, mythological and psycho-emotional dimensions of our lives. We will connect with spiritual yearning, practice meditation,... more
Week 5: July 13 - 18
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas
RISO: Proof to Publication
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
Get up close and personal with FAWC’s new RISO printer! Risography technology is witnessing a resurgence in popularity due to its approachability, gorgeous color palette, and eco-friendly soy-based ink. This workshop is designed for productive makers who are ready with imagery to translate into colorful multiples using this fun technology. The nature of RISO production... more
RISO: Proof to Publication
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
Get up close and personal with FAWC’s new RISO printer! Risography technology is witnessing a resurgence in popularity due to its approachability, gorgeous color palette, and eco-friendly soy-based ink. This workshop is designed for productive makers who are ready with imagery to translate into colorful multiples using this fun technology. The nature of RISO production... more
David Hilliard
Motives, Modes & Motifs: How and Why We Make Photographs
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
In this workshop, participants will take a deep dive into their own personal history as it relates to photographic practice. You will explore the motivations and concepts behind the subjects you choose, the technical modes used to realize those choices and finally, the visual motifs utilized to shape and convey your ideas. All aspects of... more
Motives, Modes & Motifs: How and Why We Make Photographs
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
In this workshop, participants will take a deep dive into their own personal history as it relates to photographic practice. You will explore the motivations and concepts behind the subjects you choose, the technical modes used to realize those choices and finally, the visual motifs utilized to shape and convey your ideas. All aspects of... more
Autumn Wallace
Start Making Sense: Become the artist you want to see in the world
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Escape the confines of self-doubt as you free yourself from your worst critic–you. Learn to channel personal thoughts and emotions into uninhibited drawings without feeling exposed. In this workshop, participants will begin by examining their unexplained loves, dislikes, and guilty pleasures to really get to know themselves. You will then use this discovery to create... more
Start Making Sense: Become the artist you want to see in the world
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Escape the confines of self-doubt as you free yourself from your worst critic–you. Learn to channel personal thoughts and emotions into uninhibited drawings without feeling exposed. In this workshop, participants will begin by examining their unexplained loves, dislikes, and guilty pleasures to really get to know themselves. You will then use this discovery to create... more
The Poetics of Indigenous Epistemologies
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop is built on an Indigenous Pedagogical framework where we build rigor through consensus and consider poetry writing as a holistic art and practice. We will focus on the visual and sonic elements of poetry writing to reimagine the poem as an act of restorative justice. As a collective, we will reconsider the white... more
Garrard Conley
Get Inspired: A Generative Prose Workshop
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop is designed to unlock creativity and explore the power of language. Using an engaging blend of fiction and nonfiction, this workshop provides inspiration through thought-provoking prompts, discussions of literary techniques, and close readings of exemplary prose. Together, we’ll tap into authentic voice, discover new storytelling perspectives, and experiment with form. Ideal for writers... more
Get Inspired: A Generative Prose Workshop
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop is designed to unlock creativity and explore the power of language. Using an engaging blend of fiction and nonfiction, this workshop provides inspiration through thought-provoking prompts, discussions of literary techniques, and close readings of exemplary prose. Together, we’ll tap into authentic voice, discover new storytelling perspectives, and experiment with form. Ideal for writers... more
Porsha Olayiwola
Making a Manuscript: Craft, Sequence, and Revision for Poets
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
Are you nearing the completion of your poetry manuscript? This workshop is designed for writers who are nearing the completion of a poetry manuscript and who are ready to refine, order and submit their manuscript for publication. In a supportive and collaborative environment, we’ll explore the key aspects of manuscript development—from structural decisions to fine-tuning... more
Making a Manuscript: Craft, Sequence, and Revision for Poets
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
Are you nearing the completion of your poetry manuscript? This workshop is designed for writers who are nearing the completion of a poetry manuscript and who are ready to refine, order and submit their manuscript for publication. In a supportive and collaborative environment, we’ll explore the key aspects of manuscript development—from structural decisions to fine-tuning... more
Oliver de la Paz
Motif & Magic: Creating Sequences, Patterns, and Other Enchantments
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
From invention to revision, this generative workshop will explore how writers create patterns in their language and their images to create sustained manuscript projects. We will be looking at how to write and sustain work within a singular focus, obsession, haunting, or motif by establishing poetic writing rituals to help us. The workshop will introduce... more
Motif & Magic: Creating Sequences, Patterns, and Other Enchantments
July 13 to July 18, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
From invention to revision, this generative workshop will explore how writers create patterns in their language and their images to create sustained manuscript projects. We will be looking at how to write and sustain work within a singular focus, obsession, haunting, or motif by establishing poetic writing rituals to help us. The workshop will introduce... more
Week 6: July 20 – 25
Deep Dive into Color Reduction Woodcut
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
There are many ways to introduce color and variety to woodblock prints! In this workshop we will explore the exciting process of color reduction, which involves working with one block, carving away and printing successive layers from light to dark. We’ll begin with an experimental block to get comfortable with the process, and move on... more
The Environmental Portrait
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Since its discovery in the mid-nineteenth century, photography has primarily focused on one subject: people. Unlike other visual arts, photographs often reveal unique aspects of their subjects and, as seemingly objective records, are readily accepted as reality. Yet photographers have always shaped this reality, guiding it to reflect their vision. Pioneers like Mathew Brady, Peter... more
Joseph Diggs
Playing with Paint
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
Play is about experimenting, creating, and learning in new ways. This workshop will explore a variety of ways to express and expand your artistry with paint. We will experiment with techniques and explore symbols and characters to help you develop your personal visual identity. Through a series of interactive exercises, we will ‘play’ with new... more
Playing with Paint
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
Play is about experimenting, creating, and learning in new ways. This workshop will explore a variety of ways to express and expand your artistry with paint. We will experiment with techniques and explore symbols and characters to help you develop your personal visual identity. Through a series of interactive exercises, we will ‘play’ with new... more
Writing as Spiritual Quest
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
What ghosts or longings do we chase in our writing? Can writing become a means of moving toward the reverence, enlightenment, healing, or sacred centering we desire? Participants will engage with texts by writers such as Linda Hogan, Danusha Lameris, Kim Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Ada Limón. Using writing exercises and prompts, as well... more
Photo: Jude Theriot
Paul Lisicky
Shadows and Light: Writing Creative Nonfiction
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
How do we write when we’re questioning the old assumptions and grappling toward the new? How can our work signal both absurdity and grace, shadows and light, emotional and intellectual energy? In this workshop we’ll talk about strategies that feel true to these times. This is a generative workshop, especially for those who have been... more
Shadows and Light: Writing Creative Nonfiction
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
How do we write when we’re questioning the old assumptions and grappling toward the new? How can our work signal both absurdity and grace, shadows and light, emotional and intellectual energy? In this workshop we’ll talk about strategies that feel true to these times. This is a generative workshop, especially for those who have been... more
Kyle Lukoff
Writing (and Reading) Picture Books
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Picture books—shorter, illustrated stories, intended to be read aloud to children—are a distinct art form. Good picture books often echo formalist poetry, with tight structure and intentional repetition. This workshop will examine how picture books work on a granular level, through close reading and analysis of mentor texts. Following group discussion and brainstorming, participants will... more
Writing (and Reading) Picture Books
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Picture books—shorter, illustrated stories, intended to be read aloud to children—are a distinct art form. Good picture books often echo formalist poetry, with tight structure and intentional repetition. This workshop will examine how picture books work on a granular level, through close reading and analysis of mentor texts. Following group discussion and brainstorming, participants will... more
Nicole Sealey
Seeing Is Believing: Drafting the Lasting Image
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
In The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux argue that images should “produce a bit of magic, a reality so real it is ‘like being alive twice.’” As poets, after mining our respective memories, how do we deepen the reader’s experience with the poem via the image? How does one draft a lasting image?... more
Seeing Is Believing: Drafting the Lasting Image
July 20 to July 25, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
In The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux argue that images should “produce a bit of magic, a reality so real it is ‘like being alive twice.’” As poets, after mining our respective memories, how do we deepen the reader’s experience with the poem via the image? How does one draft a lasting image?... more
Week 7: July 27 - August 1
Sara Stern and Vicky Tomayko
performing print/printing performance
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Tracing histories of embodied printmaking and experimental performance, this hybrid print and performance workshop begins in the print shop, where we’ll each make a series of monotypes. We’ll consider the process of monotype itself as a dance between printmaker and press, from the turning of the wheel to the movement of the paper from water... more
performing print/printing performance
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Tracing histories of embodied printmaking and experimental performance, this hybrid print and performance workshop begins in the print shop, where we’ll each make a series of monotypes. We’ll consider the process of monotype itself as a dance between printmaker and press, from the turning of the wheel to the movement of the paper from water... more
Ritual Embrace: A Painting & Drawing Laboratory
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Bringing ritual into your art practice is a sure-fire strategy for turning up the desire dial and getting into a flow state. Through ritual exercises in the Provincetown landscape, as well as in our FAWC studio, we will strengthen our respective practices, spark exciting and unexpected moves in our work, and nourish the creation of... more
Unmasked: Capturing the True Self in Portraits
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
One of the greatest challenges in portrait photography is helping the subject feel at ease in front of the camera. To capture a person’s true essence and access moments of vulnerability in an authentic and sincere way, it’s essential for the subject to see themselves as they truly are. However, when someone poses for a... more
Poetics of Incantation
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Some poems seem to vibrate with an unearthly magic. In this workshop, we will look closely at the poetry of Etel Adnan, Inger Christiansen, Fred Moten and Joe Brainard to gain a deeper understanding into how rhythm, repetition, and ritual can be harnessed to give poems the power of spells. Through guided writing exercises and... more
Kirsten Greenidge
The Glorious Art of the Walk-About
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Something many writers have in common is the use of walking as a part of their writing practice. To quote Henry David Thoreau: “Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow”. In this generative playwriting workshop, we will use a series of wanderings as a basis for scene... more
The Glorious Art of the Walk-About
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Something many writers have in common is the use of walking as a part of their writing practice. To quote Henry David Thoreau: “Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow”. In this generative playwriting workshop, we will use a series of wanderings as a basis for scene... more
John Murillo
Cut, Scratch, & Blend: Revision as Remix
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
“Poetry,” writes Yusef Komunyakaa in his essay collection Blue Notes, “is an act of meditation and improvisation. And need is the motor that propels the words down the silent white space.” In this workshop, participants will consider various perspectives on the revision process and explore strategies for re-drafting poems-in-progress. While this workshop is open to... more
Cut, Scratch, & Blend: Revision as Remix
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
“Poetry,” writes Yusef Komunyakaa in his essay collection Blue Notes, “is an act of meditation and improvisation. And need is the motor that propels the words down the silent white space.” In this workshop, participants will consider various perspectives on the revision process and explore strategies for re-drafting poems-in-progress. While this workshop is open to... more
Eileen Myles
Poems always (Prose too)
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop is full-on praise for the act of writing poetry. In a time of political unrest the act of writing a poem is significant, a gathering force. But prose has a way of making the poem not so much safe as having a home, an institution even where the poem can thrive. So we’ll... more
Poems always (Prose too)
July 27 to August 1, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop is full-on praise for the act of writing poetry. In a time of political unrest the act of writing a poem is significant, a gathering force. But prose has a way of making the poem not so much safe as having a home, an institution even where the poem can thrive. So we’ll... more
Week 8: August 3 - 8
Fred Liang
Watercolor Monoprinting
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this workshop participants will use the directness and fluidity of water-based paint and ink as a process to create monotypes in printmaking. You will concentrate on the development of visual ideas through a sequential and exploratory approach. This workshop is ideal both for artists with limited printmaking experience and for advanced printmakers eager to... more
Watercolor Monoprinting
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this workshop participants will use the directness and fluidity of water-based paint and ink as a process to create monotypes in printmaking. You will concentrate on the development of visual ideas through a sequential and exploratory approach. This workshop is ideal both for artists with limited printmaking experience and for advanced printmakers eager to... more
Joanne Dugan
Seeing What’s Right in Front of You: Explorations in Text, Image and Beyond
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop explores the powerful synergy between photography, writing, and mindfulness. Daily quick, unconventional prompts will encourage students to make photographs and write words to tap into their inner lives, where the creative process itself becomes an active meditation and the combining of two (or more) forms becomes a new entity. We will explore the... more
Seeing What’s Right in Front of You: Explorations in Text, Image and Beyond
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
This workshop explores the powerful synergy between photography, writing, and mindfulness. Daily quick, unconventional prompts will encourage students to make photographs and write words to tap into their inner lives, where the creative process itself becomes an active meditation and the combining of two (or more) forms becomes a new entity. We will explore the... more
James Everett Stanley
Renewed Vision
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Sometimes, the creative journey calls for a pause—a moment to breathe, reflect, and begin anew. Reconnect with your artistic practice in this immersive five-day summer workshop, where observational painting becomes a pathway to rediscovery. This workshop is designed to rejuvenate both your artistic skills and creative spirit. Together, we’ll explore a variety of approaches, from... more
Renewed Vision
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Sometimes, the creative journey calls for a pause—a moment to breathe, reflect, and begin anew. Reconnect with your artistic practice in this immersive five-day summer workshop, where observational painting becomes a pathway to rediscovery. This workshop is designed to rejuvenate both your artistic skills and creative spirit. Together, we’ll explore a variety of approaches, from... more
Whose Story? Crafting POV from the First Sentence
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
From our first sentence, we make conscious and unconscious choices about point of view: What characters will we focus on? Whose voice will tell the story? From what point in time? In this workshop, we will demystify POV by reading and discussing contemporary short fiction with an eye toward the choices the authors make and... more
Tina Chang
Facing the Finish Line
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Have you stood in your own way? Have you been facing inward, keeping poems or full poem projects in a holding pattern, waiting for the right moment to finish or release them? In this generative and critique-driven workshop you’ll bring your whole self into the classroom as we convene and commune about existing and newly... more
Facing the Finish Line
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Have you stood in your own way? Have you been facing inward, keeping poems or full poem projects in a holding pattern, waiting for the right moment to finish or release them? In this generative and critique-driven workshop you’ll bring your whole self into the classroom as we convene and commune about existing and newly... more
Abeer Hoque
Writing Personal Statements & Applying for Grants and Residencies
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Are you confused, embarrassed, or scared about writing an artist’s statement? Are you unsure about how to apply for artist residencies, grants, or fellowships? Then this workshop is for you! In this workshop participants will learn how to write clear and compelling statements of purpose, and create strong applications for grants, fellowships, and artist residencies.... more
Writing Personal Statements & Applying for Grants and Residencies
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Are you confused, embarrassed, or scared about writing an artist’s statement? Are you unsure about how to apply for artist residencies, grants, or fellowships? Then this workshop is for you! In this workshop participants will learn how to write clear and compelling statements of purpose, and create strong applications for grants, fellowships, and artist residencies.... more
Sarah Schulman
Prose Writing for all Levels
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Whether you have published many books, or are just starting out – this is a craft-based workshop designed for fiction and nonfiction writers at all levels. Students are invited to bring excerpts of novels, short stories, articles, essays, and long nonfiction books OR pages of notes OR a description of an idea. No matter where... more
Prose Writing for all Levels
August 3 to August 8, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Whether you have published many books, or are just starting out – this is a craft-based workshop designed for fiction and nonfiction writers at all levels. Students are invited to bring excerpts of novels, short stories, articles, essays, and long nonfiction books OR pages of notes OR a description of an idea. No matter where... more
Week 9: August 10 - 15
Andrew Mockler
Monoprint: Theme and Variation
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this Master Printer Series workshop, each participant will develop a group of prints that explores a range of variations on a theme. By combining various print techniques including monoprint, woodcut, drypoint, and collage, each artist will build a body of work that has a cohesive sensibility of theme and form. Over the week, we... more
Monoprint: Theme and Variation
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In this Master Printer Series workshop, each participant will develop a group of prints that explores a range of variations on a theme. By combining various print techniques including monoprint, woodcut, drypoint, and collage, each artist will build a body of work that has a cohesive sensibility of theme and form. Over the week, we... more
Mark Adams
Drawing/Journaling the Beaches and Dune Landscapes of Provincetown with Thoreau and Other Writers
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
The Province Lands are an inexhaustible source of inspiration. This workshop is a retreat to observe, draw, and write along the trails of Provincetown using observational drawing methods and prompts of Henry David Thoreau and others. Drawing methods will be suitable for beginners to advanced, including pen, pencil, ink and brush, basic watercolor, combining word... more
Drawing/Journaling the Beaches and Dune Landscapes of Provincetown with Thoreau and Other Writers
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
The Province Lands are an inexhaustible source of inspiration. This workshop is a retreat to observe, draw, and write along the trails of Provincetown using observational drawing methods and prompts of Henry David Thoreau and others. Drawing methods will be suitable for beginners to advanced, including pen, pencil, ink and brush, basic watercolor, combining word... more
Liz Collins
Trash Lab/Trash Textiles
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
When you walk by a dumpster full of cardboard, do you feel crazy because you want to stop everything you’re doing and make all your art with cardboard? This workshop is for creative makers who have been yearning to recycle, up cycle, and repurpose materials considered waste into new forms. We will source materials from... more
Trash Lab/Trash Textiles
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Intermediate/Advanced
When you walk by a dumpster full of cardboard, do you feel crazy because you want to stop everything you’re doing and make all your art with cardboard? This workshop is for creative makers who have been yearning to recycle, up cycle, and repurpose materials considered waste into new forms. We will source materials from... more
Samiya Bashir
Beyond the Page: Experimenting with Multimedia Poetries
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
You will make something that astounds you. A poem. Likely you will begin a few pieces that will succeed and fail in your own determination of them. This process will get you closer to the poem or body of work that lay just at the edge of your imagining. Walk questioning into our gatherings around... more
Beyond the Page: Experimenting with Multimedia Poetries
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
You will make something that astounds you. A poem. Likely you will begin a few pieces that will succeed and fail in your own determination of them. This process will get you closer to the poem or body of work that lay just at the edge of your imagining. Walk questioning into our gatherings around... more
Nick Flynn
Memoir as Bewilderment
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our week together, I would like to examine this idea by thinking about the concept of “bewilderment” and how it gets acted out in our writing—either through syntax, our accessing the duende, leaps into the unconscious,... more
Memoir as Bewilderment
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our week together, I would like to examine this idea by thinking about the concept of “bewilderment” and how it gets acted out in our writing—either through syntax, our accessing the duende, leaps into the unconscious,... more
Jessica Jacobs
Metaphor as Meetinghouse: Writing in(to) Relationship with the World
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Feelings, questions, and beliefs are the insistent rivers shaping our inner landscapes, capable of both ordering and upending our lives. Yet they can feel ephemeral as mist when we try to communicate them on the page. In our week together, we’ll explore the power and possibility of figurative language—metaphors, similes, allusions, and more—to channel abstractions... more
Metaphor as Meetinghouse: Writing in(to) Relationship with the World
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
Feelings, questions, and beliefs are the insistent rivers shaping our inner landscapes, capable of both ordering and upending our lives. Yet they can feel ephemeral as mist when we try to communicate them on the page. In our week together, we’ll explore the power and possibility of figurative language—metaphors, similes, allusions, and more—to channel abstractions... more
Brenda Shaughnessy
Writing By Hand, Meaning from Memory: A Poetry Workshop
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
We create our poetry using materials both physical and experiential: memory–everything we remember & even what we forget–is our treasure trove of writing material, and “getting it down on paper” is the poet’s mysterious exploratory process. Writing by hand, on paper, in class, solo-with-others, is a way to practice creative flow, finding where poems come... more
Writing By Hand, Meaning from Memory: A Poetry Workshop
August 10 to August 15, 2025
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Open To All
We create our poetry using materials both physical and experiential: memory–everything we remember & even what we forget–is our treasure trove of writing material, and “getting it down on paper” is the poet’s mysterious exploratory process. Writing by hand, on paper, in class, solo-with-others, is a way to practice creative flow, finding where poems come... more
