Workshop participants explored the possibilities of creative writing and developed new connections between visual art and the written word! Led by published poet and scholar Star Black, this 3-session literary workshop focused on the idea of Ekphrasis, an ancient Greek term meaning “the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device.”

Inspired by the works featured in Return to a Place By the Sea, participants generated a series of creative texts detailing their unique experiences of selected works in the exhibition.