Summer Workshop Program 2023
Please note: Orientation for Weeks 3-11 is on Sunday; Workshops are Monday through Friday. See an example of a week at FAWC here.
Week 11: August 13 - August 19
Mark Adams
Thoreau on the Beach: A Drawing & Writing Workshop
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
In this workshop we will shoulder a bag and walk trails and beaches in Provincetown and Truro including some of Henry David Thoreau’s paths and observations, using drawing methods suitable for beginners and the advanced, including pencil, ink and brush, value study and basic watercolor, and compose energetic sentences that complement the images. The sketchbook... more
Thoreau on the Beach: A Drawing & Writing Workshop
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
In this workshop we will shoulder a bag and walk trails and beaches in Provincetown and Truro including some of Henry David Thoreau’s paths and observations, using drawing methods suitable for beginners and the advanced, including pencil, ink and brush, value study and basic watercolor, and compose energetic sentences that complement the images. The sketchbook... more
Nick Flynn
Memoir as Bewilderment - FULL
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
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... more
Memoir as Bewilderment - FULL
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
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... more
Marie Howe
Doing It Differently: Generative Workshop/Radical Revision - CANCELLED
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
This class has been cancelled. Please reach out to ssiegel@fawc.org with any questions. Stanley Kunitz once cautioned us against clichés of speech, but he went on to caution us against clichés of thought and feeling as well. What are clichés of thought and feeling? What are ours? How do we undermine and revise thought habits,... more
Doing It Differently: Generative Workshop/Radical Revision - CANCELLED
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
This class has been cancelled. Please reach out to ssiegel@fawc.org with any questions. Stanley Kunitz once cautioned us against clichés of speech, but he went on to caution us against clichés of thought and feeling as well. What are clichés of thought and feeling? What are ours? How do we undermine and revise thought habits,... more
Nathan McClain
"Duck, Duck, _____": Patterns and so on
August 13 to August 19, 2023
1pm - 4pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
It has been said that, at the end of the day, “poetry is patterned language.” It is the relationship between pattern and the meaningful disruption of that pattern that gives poetry the muscularity required to become memorable. In this generative writing workshop, participants will closely examine poems that effectively deploy and subvert patterns, which also... more
"Duck, Duck, _____": Patterns and so on
August 13 to August 19, 2023
1pm - 4pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
It has been said that, at the end of the day, “poetry is patterned language.” It is the relationship between pattern and the meaningful disruption of that pattern that gives poetry the muscularity required to become memorable. In this generative writing workshop, participants will closely examine poems that effectively deploy and subvert patterns, which also... more
Simonette Quamina
Experiments with Relief Printmaking
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
MATERIALS FEE: $75.00
OPEN TO ALL
Participants in this workshop will explore the multiple possibilities of working from a matrix and combining printmaking techniques to create layered multi-sensory images which challenge traditional notions of the “Print” and collage. Focusing on relief print techniques, we will cover methods in Collagraphy, Silk Aquatint, Frottage and other alternative printmaking methods. Challenges will occur as... more
Experiments with Relief Printmaking
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
MATERIALS FEE: $75.00
OPEN TO ALL
Participants in this workshop will explore the multiple possibilities of working from a matrix and combining printmaking techniques to create layered multi-sensory images which challenge traditional notions of the “Print” and collage. Focusing on relief print techniques, we will cover methods in Collagraphy, Silk Aquatint, Frottage and other alternative printmaking methods. Challenges will occur as... more
Victoria Redel
Possibilities & Necessities: A Fiction Workshop - FULL
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
This workshop focuses on possibilities within a work of fiction — what are the possibilities and limitations found in choices of narrative point of view, syntax, time, memory, story structure, sentences, omission, openings, closure, objects, dialogue, and a narrative’s leaps and speed. How do we clear away obvious ways of sounding on the page in... more
Possibilities & Necessities: A Fiction Workshop - FULL
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
This workshop focuses on possibilities within a work of fiction — what are the possibilities and limitations found in choices of narrative point of view, syntax, time, memory, story structure, sentences, omission, openings, closure, objects, dialogue, and a narrative’s leaps and speed. How do we clear away obvious ways of sounding on the page in... more
Dani Shapiro
Transforming Chaos into Art: A Workshop in Fiction & Memoir - FULL
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
The most helpful writing workshops are ones in which the group acts as a single organism, its sole purpose being to help the piece of work at hand become its best possible self. Memoir, fiction — it’s all storytelling. Whether you’re bringing in pages of a memoir-in-progress or a work of fiction, we will approach... more
Transforming Chaos into Art: A Workshop in Fiction & Memoir - FULL
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
OPEN TO ALL
The most helpful writing workshops are ones in which the group acts as a single organism, its sole purpose being to help the piece of work at hand become its best possible self. Memoir, fiction — it’s all storytelling. Whether you’re bringing in pages of a memoir-in-progress or a work of fiction, we will approach... more
Forrest Williams
Painting the Figure
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
MODEL FEE: $40.00
OPEN TO ALL
Instruction in painting from the live model. Students will be encouraged to create a basic palette from direct observation of the model, using oil paint. Setting up a composition on either canvas or panel (student’s choice) will be considered. Students will receive individual instruction as they develop two figurative paintings over the course of the... more
Painting the Figure
August 13 to August 19, 2023
9am - 12pm
TUITION: $800.00
MODEL FEE: $40.00
OPEN TO ALL
Instruction in painting from the live model. Students will be encouraged to create a basic palette from direct observation of the model, using oil paint. Setting up a composition on either canvas or panel (student’s choice) will be considered. Students will receive individual instruction as they develop two figurative paintings over the course of the... more
