Have you ever wanted to deepen your understanding of art? Or wanted to try writing poetry? In this workshop, you’ll do both!
Join poet Camille LeFevre at The HeArt Box on Friday, August 9, at 1pm, in an exploration—through thinking, feeling, and writing—of Shawn Skabelund’s evocative installation, “Their Largeness Passes Through Me.” Skabelund’s small yet expansive exhibition evokes a language of place through the materiality of a forested canyon burned in the Schultz Fire in 2010: Think weathered and charred pine logs, pine sap, stripped twigs and pine cones, seeds, pollen, and a quaking aspen. How do you respond to Skabelund’s haunting compositions? Let’s find out!
During the workshop, we’ll learn about ekphrasis, from the Greek ek = out and phrazein = tell, and broadly defined as writing about or inspired by works of art. We’ll study a few ekphrastic poems and the art that inspired them. We’ll walk through and discuss Skabelund’s exhibition. And we’ll talk about ways to begin writing a poem that lives in conversation with the artwork. We look forward to seeing you at The HeArt Box.
To register for workshop Venmo @Camille-LeFevre or email camillelefevre@comcast.net
Camille LeFevre, B.A., M.A., is a writer based in Sedona. Her work is forthcoming or appears in Electric Literature, Brevity Blog, The Dodge, Bridge Eight, Thin Air Magazine, Herstry, The Ekphrastic Review, and other publications. Her art catalog essays include “Once Upon a Time…” for Rebecca Krinke’s Bedtime Stories: Sculptures Reimagined; “Lineage: Ranee Ramaswamy” for Women in Dance Vol. 1; and “To Catch the Fact: Vesna Kittleson’s Self Portraits” for Synthesis: Art by Vesna Kittleson. She teaches arts writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She’s the 2023 recipient of the Scuglik Memorial Residency in ekphrastic writing with Write On, Door County in Wisconsin.