Tickets

• Tickets: $30 - includes both sessions

Please note :
This is a 2-session workshop 2/18 & 2/20

$30 - includes both sessions

Explore new connections between visual art and the written word in a two-session literary workshop led by poet and scholar Star Black. This ongoing series of workshops  focuses on the idea of ekphrasis, an ancient Greek term meaning “the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device.”

Inspired by the artifacts in Some of Tom’s Typewriters: From the Collection of Tom Hanks, Installed by Simon Doonan and the works featured in Some Odes: Sam Messer with Paul Auster, Eleanor Gaver, Denis Johnson & Sharon Olds, participants will generate a series of creative texts detailing their unique experiences the paired exhibitions. Poets, writers, and anyone fascinated by the interweaving of art and literature – all are welcome to attend, with no writing experience required.

Each session will meet on the main floor of The Church from 10 a.m. to noon and include a close viewing of individual works in the exhibitions. Both sessions will conclude with a group reading of the texts that have been produced, a sharing of thoughts and ideas. As Black says: “Writing from art invites you to look closely at a work of art that you are drawn to and create your own work out of that experience. Much like sketching in front of a painting at the Met, the painting remains there but the sketch is yours.”

Due to the intimate nature of this workshop, the total capacity will be limited to eight participants. A notebook and pen or pencil are the only required materials for this workshop; these will not be provided.

• ABOUT STAR BLACK

  Star Black is a poet, photographer, and visual artist. After arriving in New York City in 1977 as a photographer for United Press International, she went freelance in 1980, photographing for The New York Times, the Museum of Modern Art, and other clients while studying poetry at Brooklyn College with John Ashbery and earning an M.F.A. degree in 1984. She is the author of seven books of poems, the most recent being The Popular Vote, which addresses the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. Her collages and artist books have been exhibited at Poets House and the Center for Book Arts. She co-founded the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series in the East Village in 1997, which continues today, and has taught poetry at the New School and Stony Brook University