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with Jean Feraca Saturday, August 28 & Sunday, August 29, 9am-5pm Premium Workshop: $200, price includes the workshop and a copy of I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio by Jean Feraca Ten participants minimum. Please bring friends! Deadline for sign-up is Friday, August 20 |
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Improvisation with Marilyn Crispell Thursday, September 16, 2-4pm (note change of time) $30/$25 members (price includes ticket to evening performance) |
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On Pens, Pins, and Needles with Anne Kingsbury Saturday, September 25 & Sunday, September 26, 9am-5pm Premium Workshop: $200, members $190, price includes, beads, tools, ultra suede and the book, Beadwork by Caroline Crabtree Ten participants minimum. Please bring friends! |
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with Jean Feraca Saturday, August 28 & Sunday, August 29, 9am-5pm Premium Workshop: $200, price includes the workshop and a copy of I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio by Jean Feraca Ten participants minimum. Please bring friends! Deadline for sign-up is Friday, August 20
Almost anyone can write a memoir, but not every memoir is a work of art. In this Premium Weekend Workshop with Wisconsin Public Radio's Jean Feraca, we will delve into the imagination, mechanics and techniques that go into the crafting of the literary memoir, using elements of fiction and poetry. In addition to absorbing knowledge, we will share our writing, discuss what works and what doesn't, and incorporate what we've learned through in-class writing. Workshop participants are encouraged to bring first drafts or to start fresh, working with ideas that have been percolating.Jean Feraca is Wisconsin Public Radio's Distinguished Senior Broadcaster and has been host and co-producer of the Ideas Network's award-winning call-in news and cultural affairs program, Conversations with Jean Feraca, from 1990 to 2003. In 2003 she started her new daily program Here On Earth. Feraca's book, I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio came out in September 2007. It was selected as the winner of the 2007 Kingery/Derleth Booklength Nonfiction Award, sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers. It was also named an Outstanding Book by the American Association of School Librarians, and one of the year's Best Books for General Audiences by the Public Library Association. A resident of Madison, Wisconsin, she is the author of three collections of poetry: South from Rome: Il Mezzogiorno, Crossing the Great Divide, and Rendered into Paradise. |
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with Marilyn Crispell Thursday, September 16, 2-4pm (note change of time) $30/$25 members (price includes ticket to evening performance) 
Marilyn Crispell's workshops are designed to encourage personal creativity, heighten awareness and explore various elements of improvisation. Participants will examine ways of listening to and relating to each other, the relationship between sound and silence, between improvisation and composition, historical perspectives and examples of improvisation, and the relationship between music and other art forms.All are welcome—musicians, dancers, writers, actors, visual artists, etc. No experience is required, just interest and an open mind. |
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with Anne Kingsbury Saturday, September 25 & Sunday, September 26, 9am-5pm $200, members $190, price includes, beads, tools, ultra suede and the book, Beadwork by Caroline Crabtree Ten participants minimum. Please bring friends!
We use words to convey messages, give directions, find ourselves and spell out answers. We look at words all the time, but the art and shape of letters is often overlooked. Anne Kingsbury will lead a premium weekend workshop, exploring what happens when letters and text become embodied through art.With over 30 years of experience, as an artist in the multi-media art tradition of handicrafts, Kingsbury will teach workshop participants how messages can be adapted into art through beading. The group will participate in personal writing exercises, choose personally meaningful texts and visit the world of typefaces. Using Celtic, medieval texts and more, Kingsbury will lead each student through the project possibilities and text transformation. The workshop will be an opportunity to work and learn together, where students will share their art, thoughts on text, and plans on how to incorporate what they learn into other creative work. Anne Kingsbury expands the idea of handicrafts; she combines leather and fabric with beads, glazed ceramic tiles, lace, embroidery and quilting to create works that are whimsical and autobiographical. Her work has been featured in many publications, including Art to Wear by Julie S. Dale (1986, Abbeville Press) and The Art Quilt, Robert Shaw (1998, Hugh Lauter Levin Association). Her artist book, Journal Entries 1977-1984, My Life Through Lists, was published in 1986 as a collaboration with Chax Press. Kingsbury has participated in over sixty major exhibitions. She is the co-founder of Woodland Pattern Book Center, and has served as its executive director since 1979. |