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KICK-STARTS, SHAKE-UPS, AND FOLLOW-THROUGHS: MEMOIR/PERSONAL ESSAY WORKSHOP
MARCIE HERSHMAN
Write what you know? Not so useful. We may start out with knowledge, but it’s the series of discoveries we make along the way that keeps us focused on a project, sometimes for years. In truth, we write to understand. We write what it is that we need to know. Our challenge, then, is how to use vague stirrings and pressures. When we aren’t sure of the outcome, how do we set out, let life into our work, and have the confidence and craft to follow-through? The title of this workshop is its itinerary. In class and at the table, we will write every day, engaging in the moment with discussion and exercises to freshly address our material and, day by day, move it toward something surprising and new. Please note that we will not be vetting manuscripts from home, though you will use a few pages of your prior work in an exercise.Biography
Marcie Hershman is the author of the novels Tales of the Master Race and Safe in America, and the memoir, Speak to Me: Grief, Love and What Endures. Her essays and reviews have appeared widely: the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Women’s Review of Books, Poets & Writers, Architecture/Boston, Tikkun, Ms., Agni, Ploughshares, in anthologies, and on NPR. Awards include those from the Bunting Institute/Harvard University, the Winship/Boston Globe Foundation, the St. Botolph Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She teaches at Tufts University and leads a private writing group in the Boston area.Students in this class (click a name to see a sample of their work):
Nancy Bishop
Ellen (Rikki) Nenner
Ellen Manes-Meuniere
Anne Umansky
Linda Dittmar
Margaret Cronin
Diana Fraser
Kathleen Williams
Ronni Olitsky
MJ Morse
Brigid Moynahan
LET'S LOOK AT THIS AGAIN: POETRY, REVISION & INSPIRATION
ANDREA COHEN
This class will focus on two major aspects of writing poetry. To begin, our focus will be on revision. Participants will investigate how to strengthen and hone their revision skills by systematically and individually addressing all the elements of a poem including structure, tone, line-breaks, metaphor and form to name but a few. We will also take a close look at imagery and its essential role in poetry – we’ll define the image, and look at how the image, in a given poem, is led up to and developed. I will also offer prompts and exercises to do during your stay at FAWC or to take home with you.Biography
Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, Glimmertrain, The New Republic, The Hudson Review and elsewhere. Her fourth poetry collection, Furs Not Mine, will be published by Four Way Books. Her other collections include The Cartographer's Vacation, winner of the Owl Creek Poetry Prize, Long Division, and Kentucky Derby. She has received a PEN Discovery Award, Glimmer Train's Short Fiction Award, and several residencies at The MacDowell Colony. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA.Students in this class (click a name to see a sample of their work):
Marietta Nilson
Joanna Ahlgren
Elizabeth Lincoln
Jonathan Colson
Diane Dolphin
Anthony DiPietro
Jenny Polshek
Nicole Sealey
PRINTMAKING OUT OF BOUNDS
HEDDI SIEBEL
Do you love making prints on paper and dream of using print installation as a way to play with the boundaries of space and time? In this intensive week the artist is asked to think about printmaking as a means to an end—as a way to disseminate ideas using printmaking’s characteristics of multiplication, variation, and versatility (ability to be reproduced on different surfaces.) Students may work individually or collaboratively on projects that are site-specific, architectural, sculptural, or social messaging. A goal of the class is to play and think “outside of the box.” Emphasis will be on the overall ingenuity, clarity and execution of a print installation concept. Some experience with printmaking is encouraged but not required. Students new to printmaking will be given a demonstration of monotype printing including the use of chine collé (collage), viscosity printing, and stamping. We will look at artists using unconventional print formats and sizes; followed by brainstorming sessions with short, fun print/draw exercises to create sketches of project ideas. The instructor will work closely with each student to achieve objectives in terms of idea and technical approach. Installations should go up before the last class when there will be a walk through to experience, record and discuss projects.Biography
Heddi Vaughan Siebel is a multi-disciplinary artist who studied at Middlebury College, Rhode Island School of Design, and Yale University. She has been on the faculty of Wellesley College and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a visiting Lecturer at Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Boston University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award, a Berkshire Taconic Foundation grant in printmaking, a Filmmaker-in-Residence Fellowship at WGBH in Boston, a 2005 LEF Foundation Moving Image Award, and a 2009 Faculty Award Rhode Island School of Design. Her short film Far, and Further (also a part of her print installation at the Boston Public Library 2012) was selected for the 31st Black Maria Film Festival Tour 2012. Her prints and paintings are in private collections, and the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; the Boston Public Library; and the Yale Art Gallery.Students in this class (click a name to see a sample of their work):
Ellyn Weiss
Philip Spinks
Dominique Pecce
Bill Fitts
Eric Kosse
SHADOWS AND MAYHEM: WRITING BEYONG THE KNOWN
JOHN MURILLO
In this workshop, students will explore strategies for generating new poems and revising older work, always with the intent of surprising themselves. Drawing primarily from the Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean surrealist and magical realist canons, students will be encouraged to break free of their usual processes and practices in order to write the poems they never knew they wanted to write. Biography
John Murillo’s first poetry collection, Up Jump the Boogie, was a finalist for both the 2011 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open Book Award. His other honors include a Pushcart Prize, two Larry Neal Writers Award, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Currently, he serves on the creative writing faculty at New York University.Students in this class (click a name to see a sample of their work):
Pam Ahlen
Chase Berggrun
Shayok Misha Chowdhury
Elaine Schear
THE ART OF THE BOOK
PETER MADDEN
Spend a fast-paced, fun week learning the basics of book binding beginning with simple structures and building daily on your skills. Through daily demonstrations and hands-on guided studio time, we'll progress quickly from easy, magical little structures made from a single sheet of paper to more elaborate, hardcover, multi-signature books. No unusual or expensive equipment is required and everything covered in class can be easily continued at home. With 24-hour access to the studio, participants in this workshop typically leave with at least 10 book structures and the inspiration and knowledge to create dozens more. We'll produce books that can be used as journals, scrapbooks, photo albums or are a work of art themselves. Open to all levels, writers and visual artists.Biography
Peter Madden has taught book arts and alternative photography methods for over 20 years at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts College of Art. He has conducted workshops and lectured for The Center for Book Arts in New York and San Francisco, The Guild of Book Workers, RISD, Brandeis University, Wellesley College and Harvard University. His work has been exhibited and collected by Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Fine Arts, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Harvard's Houghton Library and Bowdoin College, to name a few. Most recently his work was featured in Lark Books' Masters: Book Arts, and he was the Mudge Fellow Artist in Residence at The Groton School where he created Something in Everything: String, Staples, Stickers and Scraps, an interactive, site-specific installation of prints, books and collections inspired by and fashioned from the detritus of everyday life.Students in this class (click a name to see a sample of their work):
Anne Ruseell
Freda Moore
Lora Brody
Ellen Salins
Alison Ferring
THE MAGIC MOMENT: MAKING THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY - A MASTER CLASS IN THE ART OF CAPTURING THE MOMENT AND MAKING THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY
CONSTANTINE MANOS
The primary mission of this course is to teach precise techniques for photographing in the public domain unobtrusively and at close range – combining people, place, and moment in unique images never seen before and never to be seen again. The elements of chance, time, place, as well as personal point of view play important roles in this type of personal documentary photography. You will strive to find personal poems plucked from the raw material of daily life. This is not photojournalism, although the lessons learned here may be applied in photojournalism and all photography. You will be working in the tradition of street photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, Frank, Winograd, and Webb. You will not be photographing what things look like; you will be photographing how you feel about them. After an introductory lecture and portfolio review on the morning of the first day, you will go out into the town to photograph. Digital cameras only will be used for this course, and you will edit your pictures overnight and bring digital images to the class the next morning for critique. This process will continue throughout the week. You will learn by daily shooting with constructive critique of your images in class. You will work with one small digital camera and will shoot in wide-angle mode in the 28-35mm range, either in color or black and white.Biography
Constantine Manos has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1964. His books include Portrait of A Symphony, A Greek Portfolio, Bostonians, American Color, and American Color 2 (published in September, 2010). The son of Greek immigrant parents, he grew up in South Carolina where he received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of South Carolina and made his first serious pictures in 1952. Manos's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Benaki Museum in Greece, and others. He has conducted Master Classes in Maine, Cuba, Mexico, and Greece. In 2003 he won the Leica Medal of Excellence out of a worldwide field of 250 entries.Students in this class (click a name to see a sample of their work):
Lisa Seidel
Laura Ward
Margaret Zaleski
Sharon Wylie
Robert Karafel
Matthew Kamholtz
Janet Buie
Don Julien
Zlatko Cosic
Siobhan Armstrong
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