Level: All

Instructor: Jacqueline Kolosov

This intensive day-long workshop will focus on art as subject and inspiration, discovering how the visual artist’s aesthetic can fuel the writer’s own way of seeing. During the first part of the day, we will explore examples of ekphrastic writing by Alison Funk, Susan Vreeland, Brenda Miller, and the instructor in order to learn from their strategies. We will then turn to generative exercises. Workshopping and discussion will take place following lunch.

Date: Saturday, Nov. 6, 10am – 5pm (lunch break included)

Limit: 12 Participants

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Nov. 3

Required Materials: Please bring a fine art photograph and a little preliminary research on the artist / photographer as this information may play a role in your writing.

Teachers CPE Credits: 7 Language Arts

Fee: $110 Discounted Fee: $99

NOTE: The required $10 Gemini Ink registration fee is marked as shipping and handling on PayPal.

About the instructor: Jacqueline Kolosov’s young adult novels include A Sweet Disorder (released in June 2009) and The Red Queen’s Daughter, both from Hyperion. Her poetry collections include Modigliani’s Muse (Turning Point, 2009) and Vago (Lewis-Clark Press, 2007). Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published here and abroad in such journals as The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry, Orion, and Western Humanities Review. She is the recipient of a 2008 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Texas Tech University. Her web site is www.jacquelinekolosov.com.

SAVE THE DATE: Kolosov will also be participating  in November’s First Friday Reading with Patricia Preciado Martin on Nov. 5 at 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, located at 513 S. Presa. The event is free and open to the public.