This seminar is for creatives eager to extend and re-imagine their work by exploring a wide range of innovative mixed media artists, writers, and visionaries. Our studio will be a site of exploratory research featuring open discussion, brief screenings, mini-lectures, demonstrations, and focused exercises. Sessions will feature show-and-tell presentations where interested participants lead casual chats about their processes and inspirations, with an eye toward imagining new possibilities. Individually, the instructor will work one-on-one with participants to better understand their specific goals and interests; as a class, each session will privilege a spirit of group cross-pollination and idea exchange. Intended for painters and poets, collage and digital makers, video artists and fiction writers, and the uncategorizable. Participants will have access to a dedicated website featuring a deep list of source materials to consult during and after the course. Feel free to contact the instructor for more information: contact@derekowens.net.

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