Workshops

Workshops to Inspire

Check out the video workshops below! We’ll also be hosting in-person workshops this spring. In the meantime, we hope these videos are helpful, and we’ll be adding more in the coming weeks.

Also see our page with lesson plans for Art Teachers and English Teachers.

Ideas for Creating Art Portraying Ohio Women Drawing on Ohio Artists

6 Tips for the Biographical Poem

Project Organizer Zoë Brigley talks briefly on writing about historical figures Georgia O’Keeffe and Mary Wollstonecraft, and she gives 6 tips for writing the biographical poem.

Beyond the Photograph: A Creative Writing Workshop

Khaty Xiong who has lived for a significant period in Ohio discusses how family photographs inspired her to write about people. This is useful for one of the tips in the video above which is writing from photographs.

Writing About People: A Poetry Workshop

Project Organizer Zoë Brigley offers a workshop based on a classic poem by Marina Tsvetaeva, which offers a way to write about someone you know.