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Color and Light: Making Pictures Speak (Youth) Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive)

Color and Light

Drawing on inspiration from modern and classic works of art, this workshop will explore the linked activities of seeing and saying, from the ancient times to the present moment. What strategies have poets and writers employed when creating literary works inspired by the visual arts? Paintings, sculptures, photographs, and even conceptual art pieces: we will spend time looking at art, talking about art, and generating our own original pieces that make silent works of art speak out loud and bold.

Where: Online Workshop
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Time: 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
TO REGISTER:
Email the Writing Center at jbwc@justbuffalo.org.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 8 participants.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTE:
Writers are welcome to participate with or without video and audio during any of our virtual sessions. If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate.

Richie Hofmann

About the Teaching Artist

RICHIE HOFMANN’S new book of poems, A Hundred Lovers, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2022. He is the author of a collection of poems, Second Empire. His poetry appears recently in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Yale Review, and Poetry. He teaches at Stanford University.