Upcoming Zooms: The Ekphrastic Academy

In this zoom session, we will give wings to our poetry and short fiction with angel inspiration from art history. We will fly around the world and look at the story of angels in a wide variety of art. There will be creative writing exercises using angel art.

Angels in Art

CA$35.00

In this zoom session, we will give wings to our poetry and short fiction with angel inspiration from art history. We will fly around the world and look at the story of angels in a wide variety of art. There will be a couple of creative writing exercises using angel art.

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Introducing a new monthly generative writing session with ekphrastic prompts. Each session will include a curated selection of diverse artworks and prompt ideas for brainstorming and generating poetry or fiction. We will look at and discuss each artwork briefly, then spend time writing. We will have a few minutes to talk about our process and the option for a couple of people to share their drafts after each exercise. The curated artworks will be a grab-bag each time, from different artists, eras, styles, and cultures, chosen to inspire your writing and challenge you to new directions.

Ekphrasis Anonymous January

CA$40.00

Introducing a new monthly generative writing session with ekphrastic prompts. Each session will include a curated selection of diverse artworks and prompt ideas for brainstorming and generating poetry or fiction. We will look at and discuss each artwork briefly, then spend time writing. We will have a few minutes to talk about our process and the option for a couple of people to share their drafts after each exercise. The curated artworks will be a grab-bag each time, from different artists, eras, styles, and cultures, chosen to inspire your writing and challenge you to new directions.

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Start the new year off with an interesting immersion in art with this unique asynchronous workshop. Join us for this unique writing experience where you will follow clues and prompts provided by the The Ekphrastic Academy to discover a variety of intriguing paintings and other works of visual art. You will use books of art you have on hand, online research, or even a gallery or museum visit to search for works that could fulfill the clues given. These will be open ended and open to interpretation, with suggestions curated to inspire an entertaining and thought-provoking search experience with multiple possibilities. From your discoveries, you will choose the work that speaks to you and use a prompt provided or your imagination to write a story or poem inspired by that work.

You can use your scavenger hunt finds to create poetry, flash fiction, or CNF.

The workshop will take place asynchronously on your own schedule, while connecting with others to share your ideas and discoveries, and your drafts, in a private Facebook group.

There will be an optional afterparty on Sunday evening at 6 pm to 7 pm eastern time on zoom, where we will discuss our search, the artworks we discovered, and how our writing was inspired.

An Ekphrastic Scavenger Hunt: an asynchronous art encounter and writing experience

CA$100.00

Start the new year off with an interesting immersion in art with this unique asynchronous workshop. Join us for this unique writing experience where you will follow clues and prompts provided by the The Ekphrastic Academy to discover a variety of intriguing paintings and other works of visual art. You will use books of art you have on hand, online research, or even a gallery or museum visit to search for works that could fulfill the clues given. These will be open ended and open to interpretation, with suggestions curated to inspire an entertaining and thought-provoking search experience with multiple possibilities. From your discoveries, you will choose the work that speaks to you and use a prompt provided or your imagination to write a story or poem inspired by that work.

You can use your scavenger hunt finds to create poetry, flash fiction, or CNF.

The workshop will take place asynchronously on your own schedule, while connecting with others to share your ideas and discoveries, and your drafts, in a private Facebook group.

There will be an optional afterparty on Sunday evening at 6 pm to 7 pm eastern time on zoom, where we will discuss our search, the artworks we discovered, and how our writing was inspired.

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Arguably the most important artist in modern history, Picasso broke all the rules to create a new understanding of the meaning of visual art. Driven, prolific, obsessive, and self-obsessed, his pioneering imagination changed the art world forever. Pablo Picasso is as famous for his misogyny and megalomania as for his art. How should we approach his legacy in this light?
In this session, we will look at the life and legend of Picasso, his work, and his story. We will discuss the muses that fuelled his paintings. And we will use his works to inspire our own poems and stories in some creative writing exercises.

The Picasso Problem

CA$40.00

Arguably the most important artist in modern history, Picasso broke all the rules to create a new understanding of the meaning of visual art. Driven, prolific, obsessive, and self-obsessed, his pioneering imagination changed the art world forever. Pablo Picasso is as famous for his misogyny and megalomania as for his art. How should we approach his legacy in this light?

In this session, we will look at the life and legend of Picasso, his work, and his story. We will discuss the muses that fuelled his paintings. And we will use his works to inspire our own poems and stories in some creative writing exercises.

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In the pop age of mass manufacturing, advertising, and factory-made production of everything from fashion to food, pop art rose up to declare that the everyday taste of the masses were of monumental importance. For some artists, this was a celebration of common taste and for others, this was a commentary on commercialism.

Join us for an overview of pop art, its meanings, its luminaries, and its trajectory. We will look at the history of pop art, then write our own poems inspired by some fascinating works of pop art.

Pop Goes the World: poetry from pop art

CA$40.00

In the pop age of mass manufacturing, advertising, and factory-made production of everything from fashion to food, pop art rose up to declare that the everyday taste of the masses were of monumental importance. For some artists, this was a celebration of common taste and for others, this was a commentary on commercialism.

Join us for an overview of pop art, its meanings, its luminaries, and its trajectory. We will look at the history of pop art, then write our own poems inspired by some fascinating works of pop art.

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