Art/Lab Workshop: Portrait and Self-Portrait in Words - w/ Merridawn Duckler

This writing workshop will use writing as a source for portraiture in fiction, memoir and poetry or in preparation for other visual art. We’ll take inspiration from the minimalist descriptions of characters in the Torah to inspire our “portraits” of ourselves and others around us.

Merridawn Duckler is a writer and visual artist from Oregon author of INTERSTATE (dancing girl press) IDIOM (Harbor Review) MISSPENT YOUTH (rinky dink press) IT’S A WONDER (Southern Most Journal.) Myer and Anna Wolf Prize for academic excellence, Hebrew College. Beulah Rose poetry prize Smartish Pace, CNF prize Invisible City, Elizabeth Sloane Tyler Memorial Award Woven Tale Press, Drama prize, Arts and Letters Georgia and Jewish in Seattle Fiction prize. She’s an associate editor at Narrative and the international philosophy journal Evental Aesthetics and a member of Blackfish Gallery in Portland, Oregon. 

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