EXPERIMENTAL STORYTELLING: WORD AND IMAGE
Ages 16-29
Spring 2023, Online
In this online workshop, student fellows will become creative storytellers, taking on personally meaningful narratives and transforming them through formal experimentation. Stories might be big or small, fiction or nonfiction, based on their own experiences or on events they’ve witnessed. Fellows will begin with individual and collaborative in-class assignments, playing with chronology, characterization, and style through exquisite corpse exercises, pictorial narrative, narratives pared down to a few words, group storytelling “improv,” and other challenges. They’ll disassemble and reassemble worlds, characters, and episodes, making discoveries about themselves as artists and about the nature of storytelling. As they develop material they’ll begin to settle on techniques, mediums, and platforms, each devising their own project. They might create experimental prose or poetry, video, stills, or a combination of all three, with work designed to be shared on the page, on a website, via social media, or on postcards sent through the mail. Their work will be shared at a public exhibition and on the program website. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Jaki Hall has taught English at five Baltimore-area universities. She has worked as a TV reporter, talk-show host, and producer; published magazines; and is co-author of her family history, We Are the Wards!
Emmet Sheehan, a Baltimore City native, was part of the pilot program that launched the film department at Baltimore School for the Arts, and also trained at North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Intensive.
Chuofan Yu is an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University studying molecular and cellular biology with a personal interest in visual arts.
