Workshops
Find a rich source of poetic inspiration in the natural world.
There are no available registration dates at this time.
As the Fall Course Dates Have Passed, Students wishing to take this Series should View the Three-Season Series (Winter/Spring/Summer)
NOTE: This class will be held in an online format using the Zoom Platform.
This Series is Made Up of 4 Sessions: Autumn, Winter, Spring & SUMMER. courses may be Taken Individually or bundled together for a discount. See details below
This series of classes combines bookmaking, writing, and sketching to help you support and develop a practice of daily observation meant to support you as an artist, whatever your field. Through a series of cross-disciplinary exercises provided by the instructor, each participant will devise a self-directed habit of direct engagement with the natural world around them. Exercises will help you sharpen your observational skills, build on your current habits of recording/note-taking, develop your associative sense, and flex the parts of your creative brain you may not always put to full use. Participants will be offered individual consultations to engage with their particular surroundings and develop their projects as well as supportive, encouraging group feedback. Using observations and material collected through these exercises, participants will make works that express or embody their experience of place and season. Seasonal suggested reading lists will be provided.
Each of the classes builds on the last, but participants are welcome to take any combination. Taken all together, these classes are meant to give participants a chance to encounter their surroundings deeply and with care, and to develop an ongoing practice of attention that will feed their creative work in any discipline. You do not need to be an experienced writer or artist to take these courses.
Courses are also available on an individual basis:
The Courses:
Seasonal Observations: Autumn herbarium $645.00
September 12-October 3 Saturday Group meetings/ Weekly individual meetings by appointment
10-12:00 Group meeting: Participants share current work and goals for class, Review weekly exercises
12-2:00 Break for lunch and individual writing exercises
2-5:00 Book arts exercises
with Éireann Lorsung
Seasonal Observations: Winter walking journal $645.00
December 5-January 16 (Break Dec 19-Jan 8) Saturday Group meetings/ Weekly individual meetings by appointment
10-12:00 Group meeting: Participants share current work and goals for class, Review weekly exercises
12-2:00 Break for lunch and individual writing exercises
2-5:00 Book arts exercises
with Éireann Lorsung
Seasonal Observations: A springtime gathering $645.00
March 20 – April 10 Saturday Group meetings/ Weekly individual meetings by appointment
10-12:00 Group meeting: Participants share current work and goals for class, Review weekly exercises
12-2:00 Break for lunch and individual writing exercises
2-5:00 Book arts exercises
with Éireann Lorsung
Seasonal Observations: A summer Wunderkammer $645.00
June 5-26 Saturday Group meetings/ Weekly individual meetings by appointment
10-12:00 Group meeting: Participants share current work and goals for class, Review weekly exercises
12-2:00 Break for lunch and individual writing exercises
2-5:00 Book arts exercises
with Éireann Lorsung
Discount for taking all 4 courses = $2, 295.00
Limit 12 participants +/_
All images: ©Éireann Lorsung
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Instructor: Éireann Lorsung
Éireann Lorsung is the author of the collections Her book, Music for Landing Planes By— named a New and Noteworthy collection by Poets & Writers—and The Century, all published by Milkweed Editions. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2016. After completing an MFA at the University of Minnesota, Lorsung studied printmaking and drawing at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and taught high school in rural France. While living in Belgium, she ran a micropress called MIEL Books and a residency space called Dickinson House for writers and artists. She holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham (UK). From 2017-2020 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing - Nonfiction at the University of Maine, Farmington; she now teaches in the Baccalaureate Program at Bard College.
