2018 Summer Workshops

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Instructors

Alysia Abbott

Jump Start Your Memoir

July 8 to July 13

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Creative Nonfiction Week.Starting your memoir can be daunting. Determining its scope, voice, and perhaps most challenging of all, figuring out where to begin, are no easy tasks. But guidance in a group setting of peers...More

Mark Adams

In the Footsteps of Thoreau: A Drawing & Writing Workshop

June 17 to June 22

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

… you might have seen our tracks in the sand, still fresh, and reaching all the way from the Nauset Lights to Race Point, some thirty miles, for at every step we made an impression on the Cape, though we were not aware of it …” Henry David Thoreau,...More

Molly Antopol

Empower Your Fiction: A Writing Workshop

July 15 to July 20

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop will help you develop your skills as a fiction writer: to hone your voice, and strengthen your command over such elements as tone, pacing, characterization, setting and plot. We’ll use writing exercises and short in-class readings to...More

Amy Arbus

Picturing People: Aesthetics and Narrative

July 15 to July 20

9AM-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

We are all storytellers at heart. A compelling picture essay sets the scene, introduces the characters, evokes a mood, and shows the conflict and all of its bittersweet consequences. Participants are encouraged to think about story ideas before...More

Richard Baker

Text & Image: A Painting Workshop

July 1 to July 6

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

From Egyptian tombs to illuminated manuscripts of the 8th century onward, throughout the Modernist art of the 20th century, and into our contemporary city streets, words and images have combined in abundant ways, some conventional, easily escaping...More

Jill Bialosky

A Lie That Tells The Truth: Fiction Workshop

July 15 to July 20

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Intermediate/Advanced

Pablo Picasso famously said, that art “is a lie that tells a truth.” This workshop will focus on voice, point of view, character and narrative strategies in writing urgent and compelling fiction. I will offer techniques using memory, personal,...More

Sophie Cabot Black

Paying Attention (& Remembering To Open The Tool Box)

July 1 to July 6

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

In this class we will deepen our individual voices by listening to poems written during our time together and from other sources. By using exercises, deconstruction and other strategies, we will come away better understanding what we do best, while...More

Linda Bond

Figure Drawing: Inside and Out

July 1 to July 6

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

We will explore the interaction of structure, design, motion and expression in the human form by studying both the outer appearance and the inner anatomy of the body. In addition to improving visual language skills, drawing the human figure from...More

Paul Bowen

Landscape Drawing with Charcoal, Graphite & Squid Ink

August 12 to August 17

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

This class will take place along Provincetown's harbor. Be inspired by its wharves and blackened pilings, schools of fish breaking up the surface of the sea, brightly colored boats pulled up onto the beach, sailboats, dories, fishing boats and...More

Traci Brimhall

Between Clarity and Wilderness: Tuning Your Tension

August 5 to August 10

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of our 3rd Annual Poetry Festival. Every writer has their strengths, but we often tend to over-rely on what we already know we do well. In this workshop we will focus more on how to create a balance of tension in poems. We will...More

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Public and Private: The Week I Wrote (And Revised!) A Ton of Poems

July 15 to July 20

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

In this workshop we will write a ton of poems, do various vision and revision experiments, and workshop each day. This is a class for poets of all levels who are seeking to deepen their writing practice through experimentation with multiple...More

Cyrus Cassells

The Alphabet of the Sacred: A Poetry Workshop

July 29 to August 3

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

Is there a mystic in you, a seeker longing to express potent insights? Using Rilke's The Duino Elegies as a focal point, as well as poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, Linda Gregg, Ellen Hinsey, Rumi, and several others, this workshop is designed...More

Martha Collins

Beyond the Lyrical “I”: Using Documentary Research in Poems Exploring Political & Social Issues

July 22 to July 27

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Social Justice Week.Poetry that engages our social as well as personal sensibilities often utilizes documentary material. In this workshop, we will focus on moving beyond personal experience and into material that involves...More

Garrard Conley

Making Art Out of Memory: A Memoir Workshop

July 8 to July 13

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Creative Nonfiction Week.This class will explore, through various memoir excerpts, the ways in which writers have raised the genre to new heights. We will also explore, through poetry and fiction, techniques memoirists can...More

Adam Davies

Photographing the Landscape: Explorations on the Outer Cape

June 24 to June 29

1-4pm

Tuition: $650

Open to All

“Happy are those who see beautiful things in unassuming places where others see nothing. Everything is beautiful, what matters is to know how to interpret it. “ -Camille Pissarro, 1893. This class offers an opportunity to explore and photograph the...More

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Writing an Essay, Planting a Tree: An Environmental Writing Workshop

July 22 to July 27

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Social Justice Week.W.S. Merwin wrote "On the last day of the world/ I would want to plant a tree." This week will be an experiment in crafting essays that speak from personal experience and a keen attention to our...More

Joanne Dugan

Writing Pictures: A Storytelling Workshop for Writers and Photographers

July 1 to July 6

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

This workshop will encourage and inspire you to combine text and photographs to tell your unique stories. We will spend the week making pictures about words and writing words about pictures, using our own work as prompts, as well as responding to...More

Cornelius Eady

What the Poem Wants

August 5 to August 10

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of our 3rd Annual Poetry Festival.What does the poem want? It is not always what the Poet wants. This is a question that I’ll ask and explore with you—through exercises, prompts, examples and informed talk we’ll sort those...More

Lauren Ewing

Sea Level Rise: An Installation Workshop on Climate Change

July 22 to July 27

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

This workshop is part of Social Justice Week. Sea level rise is the most critical aspect of climate change to coastal communities. This class will seek creative ways to demonstrate immersion, inundation, coastal erasure, melting, temperature rise,...More

Nick Flynn

Poetry as Bewilderment

August 5 to August 10

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of our 3rd Annual Poetry Festival.Frost once said, "poems are about what you don't mean as well as what you do mean." In our brief time together I’d like to examine this idea by thinking about the concept of "bewilderment" and...More

Nick Flynn

Memoir as Bewilderment

August 19 to August 24

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

Frost once said, "poems are about what you don't mean as well as what you do mean"—this could apply to the contemporary concept of memoir as well. When we first approach the idea of writing a memoir we generally write into what we believe is our...More

Vievee Francis

The Sky is Falling: Ascendant and Descendant Gestures in the Poem

August 5 to August 10

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of our 3rd Annual Poetry Festival. Have you ever been asked, “Why don’t you write happy poems”? Or perhaps you have been admonished that your poems are too “dark.” There is a common assumption that the poem should “lift,” “...More

Ross Gay

Making a Way Together

August 5 to August 10

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of our 3rd Annual Poetry Festival. In this generative workshop, we will stoke our imaginations by (often collaboratively) writing and performing mini operas, puppet plays, poem-type-things, making books, studying flowers, and...More

Julia Glass

Swimming in the Gene Pool: Family, Fact & Fiction

July 29 to August 3

9am-1pm

Tuition: $725

Intermediate/Advanced

This workshop is for anyone writing stories, whether “true” or invented (or both), about family, especially your own. Whether you are crafting a personal essay or short story, a memoir or multigenerational saga, to write about family is to write...More

Kelle Groom

Writing From Life: Autobiography & Fiction

August 19 to August 24

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

“The secret to writing, " writes Dorothy Allison, "is that fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer's courage….until I start telling the stories that were hardest for me, writing about exactly the things I was most afraid of and unsure about, I...More

Elizabeth Hand

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Dystopian Worlds: A Writing Workshop for Teens

July 29 to August 3

9am-Noon

Tuition: $400

Open to All

Elizabeth Hand, a genre fiction cult favorite, teaches a writing workshop open to teens aged 15-18 who are interested in fantasy, science fiction, noir, suspense, fantasy, supernatural, horror, time travel, dystopian worlds and mainstream fiction....More

Lyle Ashton Harris

Projects in Photography: Ways of Seeing

July 29 to August 3

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

Through this workshop students will be provided with a forum in which to explore and engage the relationship between photography, landscape, and contemporary art. Through class assignments and readings we will develop a critical vocabulary for an...More

Robert Henry

Expressive Painting

June 24 to June 29

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

In this workshop, you will work in a relaxed, congenial and cooperative environment where there are no predetermined rules. You will generate your opportunities and limitations from a will to be expressive, and an exposure to methods, techniques,...More

Marcie Hershman

The Obstacle Course: Memoir and Creative Nonfiction

June 17 to June 22

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

You can look at it from this angle: obstacles are opportunities. As we plot new ways over, around, and through whatever seems bent on stopping us, we call on reserves we rarely acknowledge while zipping along more familiar paths. For writers the...More

Daniel Heyman

The Art of Resistance: Get On Board! Making Activist Posters Using Woodblock Printing

July 22 to July 27

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

This workshop is part of Social Justice Week.Posters are perhaps the most common form of propaganda historically - used to let you know just what Uncle Sam wants, and just how to sign up and give your all. Feeling a bit tired of this one-way...More

David Hilliard

The Photograph as Language: The Art of Visual Storytelling

July 8 to July 13

9am-1pm

Tuition: $750

Open to All

This workshop is part of Creative Nonfiction Week.Explore photography as a universal storytelling language. From its inception the photographic medium has been expected to prove, explain or entertain; its very mechanical nature asks it to be precise...More

Pam Houston

Memoir/Personal Essay Workshop

July 8 to July 13

9am-1pm

Tuition: $725

By Application Only

This workshop is part of Creative Nonfiction Week.The class will be workshop focused and participants will be asked to bring a draft of approximately 5000 words to be critiqued. We will be working together to find the story that is lurking under the...More

Marie Howe

Intention & Discovery: Form as Portal; Form as Path

August 19 to August 24

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is primarily generative – although we will also discuss work as it is brought to the table. We will read a great many published poems and, inspired by them, use the perceived forms to create portals and pathways to new work. Each...More

Greg Jackson

Elements of Style: A Fiction Workshop

June 10 to June 15

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

While we are generally taught to think about the large-scale properties of stories—character, scene, description, plot—the most fundamental aspect of fiction, style, often gets short shrift. How do we decide how we want to tell our story and what...More

Major Jackson

Writing to Imagine Ourselves: A Poetry Workshop

June 17 to June 22

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

“I rhyme / to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.” –Seamus Heaney, “Personal Helicon” So much of writing poetry is a discovery and honoring of the self. When we are attentive and when we courageously listen to the spirit of our moment, we find...More

Joel Janowitz

Watercolor: Painting Light

June 10 to June 15

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

Explore a range of strategies for painting with watercolor. Exercises will include mixing and layering washes, using a full value scale from light and dark, adjusting color, and working wet-in-wet. Students will also be encouraged to playfully...More

Lacy M. Johnson

Writing for Social Change: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop

July 22 to July 27

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Social Justice Week.How can writing create change? How can we use our voices — and the myriad tools at our disposal as writers — to address problems of urgent social and political import? How does truth-telling impact the...More

Patricia Spears Jones

Basic and Bold: A Poetry Workshop

July 1 to July 6

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

Poets often need to return to the radical -- the root to refresh their practice. They need to rediscover the images, the rhythms, their reasons for making work. This workshop is designed to do that by using contemporary poets and their different...More

Anthony Kirk

Master Printer Series - No Two Prints the Same: Combining Monotype, Solarplate & Etching on Copper

June 17 to June 22

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

Participants will create unique prints combining the techniques of solarplate, etching on copper and the variable process of monotype. This allows for greater experimentation in printing. The ultimate aim is for each artist to complete a variant...More

Patty Larkin

Lyric: A Songwriting Workshop

August 5 to August 10

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of our 3rd Annual Poetry Festival. "Lyric" is a workshop for wordsmiths and songwriters who want to explore the sound of words using song templates and poetry for inspiration and illumination. We'll cover song structure,...More

Reif Larsen

Walking to the Edge: A Fiction Workshop

July 1 to July 6

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

As writers, we often fall back on certain familiar tics and habits. How do we push our work beyond the cliché or the ordinary so that our writing jumps off the page? How do we produce the kind of writing that sweats, breathes, shivers? In this...More

James Lecesne

Making Story

July 1 to July 6

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

Are you ready to develop your next play, novel, solo show, TV pilot or children’s book? This workshop will give you the tools you need to tell your story. You will find a voice to speak your emotional, political and personal truth, and create a...More

Fred Liang

Master Printer Series - Monoprinting: Magical Transformation, Creating Under Pressure

July 15 to July 20

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

Bridge the immediacy of drawing with the processes of printmaking. You will focus on developing visual ideas in a serial, yet exploratory approach. This class is ideal both for artists with limited printmaking experience, and advanced printmakers...More

Ada Limón

To Make a Human Thing: A Poetry Workshop

July 1 to July 6

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is designed for beginning to experienced poets who would like to finish older poems and create new poems. With a constant focus on balance--the light and the dark, the real and the artful, the lyric and the narrative--we'll explore how...More

Paul Lisicky

Wildness & Intuition: A Workshop in Memoir/Narrative Nonfiction

August 12 to August 17

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

In this generative class we'll learn to respect our wildness and intuition in terms of how we make choices in memoir and narrative nonfiction. We'll do that through both close readings of outside work and a sequence of in-class writing projects,...More

Michael Patrick MacDonald

Transformative Memoir Writing: A Workshop

July 22 to July 27

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Social Justice Week.This workshop will look at ways to approach social justice issues purely through storytelling narrative from our lived experiences, and doing so to promote both justice and healing. We will read passages...More

Constantine Manos

The Magic Moment: A Photography Workshop

June 17 to June 22

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

You will learn precise techniques for photographing in the public domain unobtrusively at close range – combining people, place, and moment in unique images, each of which is a surprise. The elements of chance, time, place, and personal point of...More

Fred Marchant

Writing the Water Songs

August 12 to August 17

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

As we are in Provincetown, practically surrounded by the sea, we can perhaps imagine the myriad of ways in which water might serve to inspire new poems. Think for instance of the beaches and harbors we have known, and think too of the rains, snows,...More

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Such a Character! Writing Family

June 10 to June 15

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

Who, reading Mary Karr’s memoirs, could fail to imagine her knife-wielding, smart-talking Texan mother? Who, reading Patricia Lockwood, can forget her father, the Rush Limbaugh-quoting, Arby’s-snarfing, farting priest? When we write memoir or...More

Gail Mazur

Writing, Reading, Re-Thinking Poems

July 15 to July 20

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

We will spend the week looking at the work of three poets, which will be waiting for you in Provincetown, and looking together at poems by the participants. Often the best and most surprising inspirations for revision and for new poems come from...More

Jennifer Melby

Master Printer Series - Copperplate Intaglio and Monoprinting

July 8 to July 13

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

This workshop is part of Creative Nonfiction Week.A week-long exploration working in intaglio to create multi color prints from one copper plate, combining traditional etching process with a la poupee inking, mono printing, chine colle, with the...More

Deborah Miranda

Summoning Creative Power: A Memoir Workshop

July 8 to July 13

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Creative Nonfiction Week.A generative workshop open to all - including beginning writers and writers just starting their memoir project. Thich Nhat Hanh says that the work of meditation is to transform “compost into flowers...More

Andrew Mockler

Collaborate with a Master Printer: An Advanced Workshop

July 29 to August 3

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Intermediate/Advanced

Artists have always worked with master printers, experienced in their craft, to achieve superlative results. This course offers the chance for a small group of students with some experience in printmaking to hone their craft in collaboration with a...More

Aja Monet

Voices: Poetry for the People

July 22 to July 27

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Social Justice Week.When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. In this workshop, we will discuss the political power of poetry to transform perception and reality. How do we use language, metaphor, and performance to envision the...More

Eileen Myles

Basic Tools: A Poetry Workshop

August 12 to August 17

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

I’m thinking poems are made out of very clear easy things: words, repetition, art, nature, love and sex and loss, music, political climate, limitation, time, death, rhythm. God? Ideas about god or spirituality. So we’re going to use all those things...More

Wendy C. Ortiz

Altered States: A Multi-Genre Workshop

June 17 to June 22

9am-1pm

Tuition: $725

Open to All

Writers of all genres often contend with writing about experiences that take us out of our bodies or, alternately, deeper into our bodies. We'll read and discuss selected poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that successfully captures the...More

Gregory Pardlo

Who Cares About Your Story: Finding Meaning in Personal Experiences

July 8 to July 13

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Creative Nonfiction Week.As writers of the personal essay, we sometimes exclude biographical information that is essential to the essay’s frame. We might do this because we think it is too mundane or uninteresting or...More

Jim Peters

The Figure in the Interior: A Painting Workshop

June 17 to June 22

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

In a workshop environment we will be painting from the model(s) and integrating the figure within an interior space, real or imagined. The environment/the spatial mode of a painting narrates the figure; an “interior” is a “stage” projecting the will...More

Carl Phillips

Making Poems from Poetry

August 12 to August 17

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

In this workshop, we will look at strategies used in poems provided by the instructor, and we will use those strategies both as devices for generating new work and as lenses through which to re-see and revise work that has stalled. You should except...More

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Do Poems Really End?: A Poetry Workshop

June 10 to June 15

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

What is the end of a poem? What is its function? What makes one ending stronger than another? What do you do with a line you think "would make a good ending of a poem" that you have yet to write or perhaps even to conceive of? How does the end of a...More

Ivy Pochoda

The Novel from Beginning to End

June 24 to June 29

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is for students at all stages in the process of writing their novels. In order to write, we must be able to imagine our novels as one day being complete—we must be able to talk about them, share them, interrogate them, and revise them...More

Provincetown Artists

5 Artists, 5 Days: Drawing and Painting the Figure

July 29 to August 3

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

Five of Provincetown’s favorite artists join us as faculty for a weeklong workshop devoted to drawing and painting the figure. Work with a new faculty member each day for five days. Includes mid-week panel discussion with all faculty on the Art of...More

Victoria Redel

Possibilities & Necessities: A Fiction Workshop

August 19 to August 24

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

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...More

Martha Rhodes

Revising & Generating: A Poetry Workshop

July 29 to August 3

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

We often think of revising as a separate act from generating a poem. This workshop will focus on how revision can be an act of generating new, vibrant work. We'll look at poems that participants bring in with an eye to "conventional" revision as...More

David Rivard

Inviting the Surprise: A Poetry Workshop

July 29 to August 3

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

As Grace Paley says, “You don’t write about what you know, you write about what you don’t know about what you know.” Using daily exercises and models, this workshop will focus on the practice of surprise, so that we can discover what we really feel...More

Patrick Rosal

The Singing Image: A Poetry Workshop

August 5 to August 10

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of our 3rd Annual Poetry Festival. We will read poems together out loud to get a sense of their sound, in fact, to be moved by their sound (of course, this is a tautology, because sound literally moves us by anvil, hammer,...More

Sarah Schulman

Witness, Express, and Represent: A Prose Workshop

July 22 to July 27

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Social Justice Week.A workshop for prose writers of every level: from true beginner to the multiply published, working on witnessing our extraordinary time, expressing the experience of living now in the context of others,...More

Alan Shapiro

Writing Under the Influence: Creative Imitation

June 10 to June 15

9am-1pm

Tuition: $725

Open to All

This will be a generative class. We’ll read four poets on Monday, and then each day thereafter students will bring to class a poem, in imitation. By the end of the week, I promise you you’ll have four of the best poems you’ve ever written and a set...More

Dani Shapiro

Transforming Chaos into Art: A Workshop in Fiction & Memoir

August 19 to August 24

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

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...More

Alan Shapiro

Conveying an Unconventional Sensibility in Poetry

June 17 to June 22

9am-1pm

Tuition: $725

Open to All

Poetry like all arts depends on conventions or norms of expectation in order to express an individual perspective. Yet conventions, or norms of expectation, literary or social, are by definition inherently impersonal and general; they are also...More

Solmaz Sharif

The Poem and Its Shadow

July 15 to July 20

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

Sometimes it seems we spend our lives trying to write the same poem over and over. Bring such a poem. We will workshop it the first session and spend the rest of the week writing shadow versions of this same piece daily. We will use a variety of...More

Brenda Shaughnessy

A Poetry Workshop: Why Are We Poets?

June 24 to June 29

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

Lucille Clifton said: “In every room you enter, someone is going through something unbearable.” To bear our burdens alone is, in itself, unbearable. We are poets because we believe in listening, to others and to ourselves, to intensely query the...More

David Shields

In Praise of Brevity: A Multi-Genre Workshop

June 10 to June 15

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

In the best short-shorts the writer seems to have miraculously figured out a way to stage, in a very compressed space, his or her own metaphysic: Life feels like this. Or at least: Some aspect of life feels like this. In this workshop, we will work...More

Susanna Sonnenberg

True to Yourself: Voice and Power through Memoir

July 15 to July 20

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

What is true? What is true on the page? These two questions are at the heart of this class, as we explore the power inherent in memoir. We will use generative exercises as well as workshop discussion, and we’ll focus on the strength of language and...More

James Everett Stanley

Faces: A Portrait Painting Workshop

July 8 to July 13

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

This workshop is part of Creative Nonfiction Week.Portraiture is the great abiding tradition of painting. In mastering the direct human gaze, an artist is able to distill and illuminate what might otherwise remain unarticulated: the desires,...More

Paul Stopforth

Discovering Drawing

August 19 to August 24

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

Drawing has always been an essential component in the lives of working artists, and the significance of this fact has become increasingly apparent in contemporary art practice. Regardless of experience or levels of skill, drawing connects all of us...More

James Stroud

Master Printer Series - Jump Start Etching: Photoetching on Copper

August 12 to August 17

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Advanced

Students will get far into the development of an etching by transferring images drawn on clear films onto copper plate coated with a photosensitive resist. The instructor will bring the plates for purchase ($150 for a 24 x 18 inch plate) and...More

Rob Swainston

Master Printer Series: From Photoshop to Multi-Color Block

June 10 to June 15

1-4pm

Tuition: $650

Open to All

Photoshop is a powerful tool for printmakers working with multi-plate images. Students will learn how to manipulate their own imagery (photo/drawing/painting) or appropriated imagery in photoshop for output into ‘traditional print’ processes. This...More

Craig Morgan Teicher

Poetry as Conversation: A Workshop

June 24 to June 29

9am-Noon

Tuition: $600

Open to All

Poetry is a conversation we have with ourselves by having it in front of others. With this idea in mind, this class will utilize daily generative writing exercises, class discussion of exemplary work by established writers, and daily workshop...More

Vicky Tomayko

Silkscreen Printmaking

June 24 to June 29

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

In this workshop, we will investigate a variety of approaches for printing original silkscreen images. Techniques covered include hand-cut stencils, direct drawing and painting, and photo-silkscreen methods. You will be able to print on paper,...More

Justin Torres

Fiction Workshop

August 12 to August 17

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Advanced

This course is for students who are already at work on a longer project—be that a short story collection, a novel, or some poetic hybrid of genres—and are looking for critical feedback. The workshop will be intensive; we will look at two student...More

Marcus Wicker

The Politics of Play: A Poetry Workshop

July 22 to July 27

1-4pm

Tuition: $600

Open to All

This workshop is part of Social Justice Week.Once a poet locates an approach that makes quick work of the generative process it is tempting to replicate that success by producing the same poem over and over again. And if the topic of said poem is...More

Joan Wickersham

Unlocking the Story

June 24 to June 29

9am-1pm

Tuition: $725

Open to All

What is my story and how do I tell it? Any writer, no matter how seasoned, has to grapple with these questions, day after day, project after project. This intensive workshop for fiction and memoir writers will focus on finding the story and telling...More

Bert Yarborough

Using the Print: Mixed-Media Printmaking

August 19 to August 24

9am-Noon

Tuition: $650

Open to All

The directness and immediacy of monotype printing is an excellent vehicle for artists desiring to expand the possibilities of image making. Participants will be introduced to a variety of monotype printing techniques, such as watercolor, trace...More

Bert Yarborough

Open Print

August 5 to August 10

24 Hour Access

Tuition: $400

Intermediate/Advanced

During this week, the printshop and studio space will be available for experienced printers who have previously attended printmaking classes at the Fine Arts Work Center. Students work on their own independent projects and will have 24-hour access...More