How to tell your story in pieces.
Create physical / digital collage poems representing your personal journey(s), origin stories, and / or future aspirations using found imagery and text. This hands-on workshop encourages creative inquiry, experimentation and expression through the art of collaging. Source, sort, and assemble with generative prompt questions in mind.
Live video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it).
In this workshop you’ll learn:
- Found poetry
- Confessional poetry
- Digital / paper collaging
Time requirements
- No time required outside of class.
Materials
- Digital: Access to an editing platform like Canva or similar
- Physical: Images and/or text cut from magazines, mementos or personal photos; scissors, glue or tape; colored pencils or markers; dried flowers or anything else to add texture/depth.
Who should take this workshop?
- This workshop is open to all levels and genres, but especially those interested in ex-PEER-imenting with their writing and creative practice.
If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
