ART ON THE MEADOW - WRITING WORKSHOP

Our lives are stories—with characters, settings, arcs, conflicts, accidents, decisions, and more—and the stories we imagine about ourselves can help create our lives. Our pasts are also rich with experience and detail, which—whether true or adapted—can feed and drive our artistic practice. In this workshop, we will experiment with interactive writing and mapping prompts that invite you to explore relationships between place and identity, chance and choice, experience and interpretation, and equity and empathy. Developed by the author, these exercises serve both as tools for personal reflection and as structures for mining your own life and speculating alternate selves when building stories.

Layered Selves, Alternate Lives: Writing Who We Are, Might Have Been, Could Become runs on Saturday, July 25, from 10AM-5PM, taught by Marya Spont-Lemus, and costs $100. Art on the Meadow is a unique program, providing an intergenerational space for students to come together in the inspiring natural environment at Ox-Bow for half day, one day, or short term multi-day classes. Our workshops are geared toward teen and adult makers of all experience levels, age 13 and up. Art on the Meadow workshops offer participants an opportunity to connect traditional art and craft processes with contemporary ideas and approaches to artmaking. We strive for our workshops to be imaginatively challenging and logistically accessible for our West Michigan neighbors. Come jump into Ox-Bow’s creative community (and maybe even into our beautiful lagoon)!