2025 Summer Workshop Program
Attention participants!
Our 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 Tiered Tuition System, please click here.
Our 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 Tiered Tuition System, please click here.
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
Catherine Opie
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
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
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
