Students must have taken at least 3 Writers Studio classes before registering for this class.

What attracts you to a given work of art? How does it speak to you? Capture your imagination? How might you, a writer, borrow the persona and techniques that were used to create an intriguing piece of visual art to enlighten and invigorate your writing?

Each week, you will pick a piece of art that resonates, then apply The Writers Studio “read like a writer” mind to the techniques in the art that made it work. Then, no surprise but plenty of fun, you create a preamble using those techniques, and use it to create a piece of writing (on any subject, not necessarily about the artwork directly.)

Instructor

Writers Studio San Francisco Director

Gail Ford

Gail, a graduate of Stanford, teaches poetry, fiction, essays, Art Speaks to Art, and CD Wright’s hybrid writing. Gail loves thinking, talking, and laughing with writers about writing, and welcomes all to “try this, try that” as a playful means to both deepen access to our material and engage the reader. Her work has appeared in the NOYO River Review, Carquinez Review, Minotaur, and Northern Contours and has been anthologized in An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind, and A Ghost at Heart's Edge, Stories and Poems of Adoption.

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