Join poet and educator Jan Freeman for this free July Writing Through Art Poetry Workshop at the Smith College Museum of Art. Together, we will write drafts in the galleries of the SCMA, using extraordinary paintings by Alma Thomas as portals to open memories, emotion, and new ways of using language.

Poets are invited to create new drafts and poems while experiencing the many ways that visual art opens inspiration, perception, memory, and wordplay. If weather permits, poets are invited to spend time in nearby Capen Botanical Gardens before the workshop, to replicate the garden inspiration that fed much of Alma Thomas’s art.

The morning workshop will take place at the Smith College Museum of Art, 20 Elm Street, Northampton, MA.

For more about Alma Thomas, watch here!

Join Jan Freeman at the exciting new exhibit of Alma Thomas’s paintings.

Wear comfortable walking shoes, and bring a notebook and sharpened pencils (no pens are permitted in the museum galleries). Maximum enrollment: 14.

To register, please click here.

This Writing Through Art Poetry Workshop is made possible by the Smith College Museum of Art.

The Eclipse by Alma Thomas

Immerse yourself in writing and reading poetry, surrounded by an eclectic, supportive creative community.

Please share this information with your poetry friends and sign up together for a memorable morning!