DEEP TIME: an art and writing workshop that digs to the root of meaning

About the Workshop

In this hour-long workshop, we will look at a poem and a work of visual art as invitations into our own creative writing. The practice of writing from visual art is called ekphrasis. Our theme will be transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.

The first part of our time together will be spent reading, looking, listening, and talking. We will spend the second half of our time in communal quiet, writing together in response to the work we've looked at, with time left at the end for optional sharing.

This workshop is open to anyone who wants to spend thoughtful time in community engaged with beauty and meaning. All writing genres and levels welcome.

Scholarships are available for youth writers and those in need of financial assistance. Apply by 11/15.

About the Instructor

Sarah McColl is the author of the memoir Joy Enough (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2019). She also writes the newsletter Lost Art, a monthly essay on the creative work of (mostly) dead women and a finalist for the 2023 Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant. Her essays have been published by the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and StoryQuarterly, and her work has been supported with fellowship awards from Millay Arts, Ucross, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and loves nothing more than talking about writing and what matters.

Host or Publisher Amatoria Fine Art Books