Queering the Boundaries: Commingling Art & Creation
How does art inform our rebellions on and off the page? In this workshop, we will use queer art as our jumping-off point for creative writing. We will practice blurring the boundaries between artistic genres as we draw, collage, collect and look. We will look at work from misfits and rebels (David Wojnarowicz, Zanele Muholi, Amaryllis Dejesus Moleski, K8 Hardy, Caitlin Rose Sweet, Catherine Opie, and more). Olivia Laing's "The Lonely City" will guide us into an archive. All bodies and genres are welcome.
No class dates: 10/31/2023
Registration dates:
August 7: Scholarship Donation Day
August 8: Member registration opens at 10:30 am
August 15: General registration opens at 10:30 am
August 21: Last day of Early Bird pricing
Meredith Arena
Meredith Arena is a queer writer and interdisciplinary teaching artist from New York City with 18 years of teaching experience with youth ages 5-15, both in afterschool and school-day arts integration. She likes to challenge authority, play theater games, garden, draw and wander. Her work can be found in various journals including Longleaf Review, Entropy, Lunch Ticket, and Peatsmoke. She holds an MFA in creative writing and a Certificate in the Teaching of Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She hopes her students tune into their inherent creativity so they can access it when they most need it.
