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Writing & Art
A Workshop for Artists, Writers
and Lovers of Art
Saturday, March 28, 2009
1:00-5:30
Tawes Hall
Frostburg State University Campus
Cost: $25
In conjunction with the Allegany Arts Council,
the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing is proud to host its third annual
Writing & Art Workshop--a program for artist who need to write, creative
writers who love art, and lovers of art who want to write art reviews.
Featuring faculty who are practicing artists
and writers in their own right, the workshops will provide students with
the skill necessary to write about about their own art or about the art
they love.
Registration can be done through emailing
the Center at nightsun@frostburg.edu.
The Hadra Scholarship is available through
the Allegany Arts Council.
The three workshops include:
Writing Art Reviews
how to go to art shows, properly review pieces and write it all up.
Art as a Muse
how visual art can inspire and enhance the writing process. *Students
are encouraged to bring in pictures of their favorite artwork.
Making Art from Literature
Workshop participants will create text and images pieces, primarily through
drawing and hand-lettering. No drawing experience needed. Any drawing
level is appropriate. Participants should bring pens, pencils, and erasers.
Bring no-mess colors (colored pencils, colored markers, NOT paint) if
you have them. Paper will be supplied, but participants can bring extra
paper. Most important, participants should bring text sources (their own
writing, or the writing of others): poetry collections, novels, essays,
whatever inspires.
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2009 Faculty
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Writing Art Reviews - Gerry LaFemina
Gerry LaFemina's most recent book is the prose poem collection Figures
from The Big Time Circus Book/The Book of Clown Baby. His other
books include The Parakeets of Brooklyn (winner of the 2003 Bordighera
Prize and published in a bilingual edition of Italian and English),
The Window Facing Winter, Graffiti Heart (winner of the 2001 Anthony
Piccione/ Mammoth Books Poetry Prize), and Zarathustra in Love (prose
poems) among others. He is also coeditor of two anthologies: Poetry
30: Thirty-something American Thirty-something Poets (with Daniel
Crocker) and Evensong: Contemporary American Poets of Spirituality
(with Chad Prevost) and coeditor with Dennis Hinrichsen of Review
Revue, a journal of book reviews, prosody essays and interviews
with poets. A former board member of the Association of Writers
and Writing Programs, LaFemina was nominated to receive the Governor's
Award for Arts Education in Michigan in 2001, and the George Garret
Prize for literary activism from the AWP in 2007. The author of
numerous published poems, stories and essays, LaFemina teaches at
Frostburg State University where he directs the Frostburg Center
for Creative Writing.
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Art as a Muse - Jennifer Merrifield
Jennifer Merrifield completed her MFA at Virginia
Commonwealth University. Winner of the 2006 Columbia Poetry
Prize, the 2007 42Opus Editor's Select Prize, and a featured
emerging writer in Natural Bridge. She teaches at Potomac
State College of WVU, serves on the editorial board of Backbone
Mountain Review and lives in Cumberland, Maryland.
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Making Art from Literature - Bill Dunlap
Bill Dunlap is an artist who tends to move around between Western
Maryland, San Francisco, and New York City. His art has been shown
in galleries, museums, and art fairs across the US and Europe. Prints
of several of his paintings are in the Library Archives (part of
the permanent collection) of the New York Museum of Modern Art.
His work has been featured extensively in art magazines (Juxtapoz,
Art Papers), books (Apenest, The Atlas of Illustration), and on
many art blogs. He also works as an illustrator, and his images
have appeared in and on the covers of magazines and newspapers nationwide.
In the Spring of 2006 he was a Fellow and Artist-in-Residence at
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His creative writing
is published frequently, both in print and online, and he has recorded
several CD’s of original music. He has a BA in English literature
from the University of Maryland at College Park, and an MA in design
from San Francisco State University.
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