Ruth Gendler: Writing for Artists
Saturday, June 18, 2011 12 to 4 pm Fee $50 Contact Ruth to register. |
 |
 |
Writing, like art-making, is both work and play. This workshop is devoted to recovering the sense of writing as play—whether it’s the act of drawing the shapes of the letters and investigating the spaces between words, inventing conversations between beloved and less favored colors, allowing the shapes in one’s paintings to speak out loud, making up a dream for an artistic ancestor. We will explore ways that writing and art are similar and different as well as ways that each practice illuminates the other.
Whether writing statements or bios, letters, brief essays, blogs or books, we want our writing to be authentic, alive, and coherent. This workshop is rooted in the qualities of curiosity, clarity, courage, creativity and courtesy. It is a time to try new ways of writing, a place to listen to the river of words that flows underneath our everyday activities, and a time and space dedicated to imagination, language and soul.
“Ruth Gendler doesn't just teach people how to reach into their creativity—she exudes it. Her teaching, like Creativity itself, is fresh, surprising, usually spontaneous and like Ruth's relationship with her own work, is serious and passionate at its core.” —Catherine Girardeau, Media producer, journalist, and writer