Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art

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Discover how visual art can inspire creative writing and how writing can offer a powerful way to experience art. Join Mary Hall Surface, the founding instructor of the National Gallery of Art's popular Writing Salon, for a course of three online workshops that explore essential elements of writing and styles through close looking, word-sketching, and imaginative response to prompts. The sessions spotlight a diverse range of visual art chosen to inspire writers of all experience levels to deepen their process and practice. The course has a limited enrollment to maximize interaction among the instructor and students. Surface is a teaching artist, playwright, theater director, and museum educator. She presents workshops nationwide in creative writing and drama as a Kennedy Center teaching artist, is a Chautauqua Institution Writer-in-Residence, and was a faculty member at Harvard's Project Zero Classroom. Session Information Capture Sensation Inspired by 20th-century British artist Vanessa Bell's A Conversation and the writings of her sister, Virginia Woolf, experiment with capturing the inner and outer life of characters. Additional Sessions November 3: Imagine Character November 10: Discover Story General Information View Common FAQs and Policies about our Online Programs on Zoom .