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Art and Writing
A Workshop for
Artists, Writers
and Lovers of Art
Saturday, March 31, 2012
12:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Dunkle Hall
Frostburg State University Campus
Cost: FREE
In conjunction with the Allegany Arts Council,
the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing is proud to host its seventh
annual Art & Writing Workshop--a program for artists who need to write
and creative writers who love art.
Featuring faculty who are practicing artists
and writers in their own right, the workshops will provide students with
the skills necessary to write about their own art or about the art they
love.
Please send an email to cwcenter@frostburg.edu
with your name, address, and workshop selection.
The two workshops include:
Art as a Muse
How visual art can inspire and enhance the
writing process. Workshop participants will learn how to interact with
and respond to art of all mediums in order to create stories and poems.
Students will also work with techniques that engage the artwork beyond
responding to it or describing it. *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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2011 Faculty
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Making Art From Literature, Illustration
Jamison Odone
Jamison Odone is an author and illustrator of Children's
books and Graphic Novels, who was born and raised in Rhode Island
and now lives and works in Connecticut. He received his BFA in illustration
from The Art Institute of Boston and his MFA from Western Connecticut
State University.
In 2007 Jamison Odone’s first book, Honey Badgers,
was released. In a review of Honey Badgers, Publishers Weekly said
that, "Odone, tapping into a powerful vein of fantasy has created
the kind of book certain children will cling to, years after they
abandon the rest of their picture book collections." His other
books include The Bedtime Train and Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,
part of his new series Stickfiguratively Speaking. He is currently
working on the second book of the series, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
to be released in 2011.
His work has been reviewed by Publishers Weekly,
Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, The Knight Letter, Midwest
Book Review as well as by numerous literary blogs and newspapers.
In 2009 he was awarded a Fellowship Grant from the state of Connecticut
for his body of work. When he is not busy painting, he can be found
giving numerous lectures and workshops throughout New England. He
is also very active with The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
running classroom workshops and curriculum based on his books. He
also teaches at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT and
in the Masters program at Western Connecticut State University.
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Art as a Muse
Gabrielle Zane
Gabrielle Zane is a performer, writer, and visual
artist. Ms. Zane holds an M.F.A. from Bennington College. As a Teaching
Artist for the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism,
Ms. Zane has taught creative writing, performance and visual arts
in schools, universities, and arts agencies throughout New England.
As a member of the Poetry Alive!, Gabrielle toured the country performing
poetry to children of all ages. Nationally recognized for her performance,
Gabrielle was the 1997 Connecticut Individual Performance Poetry
Champion and the 1997 winner of the prestigious Slam Master's Slam
in Chicago. She is a fonder and member of the band Zeno's Eros.
Ms. Zane has a chapbook of poems, Being Your Eyes from Curbstone
Press.
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