Saturday, May 25, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

$50.00; Max Class Size: 12
(including 2 Scholarships for BIPOC Students)

James Washington Studio , 1816 26th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
[Parking is limited on this street]

Workshop Profile: To Poem a Place is a workshop focusing on an exploration of the spatial aspects of a particular place. Upon a paper ground, participants will work to uncover unexpected elements in the language of a landscape. Using maps, photographs, objects and ephemera, a geographic structure will be interrogated for what it reveals and conceals.

This workshop is best suited to those with experience wrangling with the writing of a poem.

Bring to the workshop: an image (photograph, painting, drawing) of a place that resonates with you; a map or guide to the place (could be hand drawn); any associated/related texts such as glossary, definitions, dictionary, newspaper articles, letters, etc.; any objects that are of significance or relate to the place (this includes colors); a notebook (we will work in hard copy and will not engage with electronic devices); blank paper, colored pencils/pens, glue stick (optional); anything else you feel would assist you in your endeavor.

The author of Poem of Stone and Bone: The Iconography of James W. Washington Jr. in Fourteen Stanzas and Thirty-One Days, Carletta Carrington Wilson’s literary work is in This Light Called Darkness, Cascadia Zen, Take A Stand:  Art Against Hate, Stealing Light, Make It True:  Poems from Cascadia, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century, and many other literary publications. Her mixed-media textile works and collages have been exhibited at Wa Na Wari, CoCA, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, ArtXchange Gallery, Kittredge Gallery, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Denver Public Library, Northwest African American Museum, Gallery 110, Columbia City Gallery, Gallery Onyx Pacific Place and Gallery Onyx Midtown Square, and Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.