Oct 1 

 PERSONAS 

In what ways can we empower ourselves by taking on a persona? Throughout history, writers and artists have taken on alter egos to express inner conflict, taboo desires, and their greatest fears through the veil of close fiction. 

In this workshop we’ll use masks and costumes to alter our appearance, and explore different voices to create autofiction and photographs that have the power to spur action.

 Oct 8 

TASK 

Oliver Herring’s participatory TASK parties invite people to interact with one another and their environment. 

In this workshop we’ll play with his continuous conception and interpretation of chaotic and purpose-driven creation methods. 

Join the contained chaos of artist Oliver Herring’s party for group creation! 

 Oct 15 

THREE LINES

How far can we push the page using just three lines? In this workshop we’ll explore brevity in both the written and illustrative form. Learn how sparse lines can interpret our complex world in direct, poetic ways. Suitable for all levels! 

 Oct 29 

OLD GHOSTS

A Halloween Eve special! Dive into the archive of memory for a haunting exploration of the past.

What might a memory look like as a ghost? 

On this evening, falling two moons before All Hallow’s Eve, dive into the archive of perception for a haunting exploration of the past. Our individual and cultural histories float through and around us all the time; sometimes their after-effects feel like phantoms. How might we encounter and materialize these phantoms through writing and visual media?

Guided in part by our special guest, Mater Sva, we’ll spend a couple hours stepping beyond the fragmented, linear timelines that dominate contemporary Western thought. Embrace intuition, listen to the subconscious and perhaps encounter a message from the energetic loop of lived experience. 


This workshop is in collaboration with the divination studio of Mater Sva, aka Iva Berković. As an oracle performance practitioner, Mater Sva becomes an ancient intelligence channel. Through practices such as tarot, coffee-cup reading, fortune telling, altered-state seances, and more, they open portals of the psyche and soul. Mater Sva is your conduit to other realms.

 Nov 5 

WHAT'S LOST, WHAT'S FOUND

A collaboration with Waterworks. 

Explore different forms of grief through painting and drawing. 

 Nov 12 

NEGATIVE SPACE

What possibilities are available in the white space of a page? 

In this workshop, we’ll look at the spaces in-between and beyond the clutter and detail to challenge what we think we know about art and ourselves. We’ll look at oppositions, the unfilled, what’s left untouched, and what’s undiscovered to jumpstart our creativity. 

 Nov 19 

REPEAT IT REPEAT IT REPEAT IT

When at first you don’t succeed: try, try again. 

Join this two-hour workshop on the transformative power of repetition. We’ll work with motifs and patterns to discover how insistence can coax new creative energy and create connections that the one-and-done method fails to provide. 

 Nov 26  

REMIX:COLLAGE

How do we reuse that old material that’s collecting dust? 

In this workshop we'll find purpose for what we’ve already created and explore the possibilities of combining our work with other found materials. Get ready to cut, paste, reorder, respond, revisit, and recycle to reconfigure old ruts into fresh writing and original visual work.