Keith Haring, known for combining bold line drawings with bright colours and straightforward language, famously wrote: "Your line is your personality". While poets and fiction writers discuss line breaks, stanzas, or the process of finding one’s authorial voice, visual artists speak in a language of color, light, composition, and movement. By studying artists like William Blake, Hannah Höch, Larry Rivers, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jane Hammond, and Banksy, we will look at how the artistic line interacts with the written word, merging various painterly and textual elements into a dynamic mixed-media mélange. This mixed-media workshop will help you gain insight into your artistic personality, while tapping into metaphors and images that can be written into a story, poem, memoir, or painting.

In this workshop, you will learn about and be inspired by accomplished artists and writers while developing your own art and writing within a supportive and inclusive studio environment.

Each day participants will be introduced to a writer and artist and provided with a new writing prompt and drawing exercise. These daily exercises will be discussed and will evolve over the week into a folio of poems, stories (or illustrated stories), memoir, drawings, or paintings that will be presented on the final day of the workshop.