CREATIVE BONES: AN ARTISTS’ FORUM
Ages 16-29
Fall 2021, Online
In this online workshop, student fellows will come together weekly to share and discuss their writing, photography, filmmaking, and other creative endeavors. They’ll share influences—the work of favorite artists; complete in-class writing and visual arts exercises; and respond during the week to assignment prompts in a range of media, working independently to capture what compels them even as they address common ideas. Writing responses might range from memoir to fiction to poetry; still and moving images might be realist, lyrical, or abstract in nature; and music and graphic or plastic arts, from painting to collage to sculpture, will also be welcome. Between meetings fellows will keep daybooks, daily diaries of impressions and discoveries drawn from life and from the world of arts and letters: images, quotations; notes on people and places; whatever they encounter that resonates with them. Individual final projects will feature a range of work created over the eight weeks, and will be shared on the program website and through a virtual exhibition. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Lucy Bucknell teaches film studies and screenwriting in the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is the founding director of Writing Outside the Fence, a writing program for the formerly incarcerated and their extended community.
Chrissy Fitchett, a graduate of MICA, is a practicing photographer and Associate Director for Baltimore Youth Film Arts. Her work examines family structure, generational knowledge, and issues of political and social marginalization, such as forced migration and gender inequity.
Somer Greer is a writer and photographer who lived in Baltimore for close to a decade, working as a writing instructor at Johns Hopkins University and other schools in the Mid-Atlantic. He now lives on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, Louisiana. Currently, he is working on a series of candid photos of Cajun musicians.
