Create artwork in multiples using the graphic language of printmaking. Students will learn techniques such as woodcut, monotype, drypoint, and more experimental methods. Learn to pull prints on the small etching press as well as transfer techniques that do not require special equipment. Develop an understanding of the history of these processes as a way to disseminate ideas and images. In addition to studio projects, students will have an exchange of prints, view works in the collection of a museum, and have a visiting artist critic. The course will culminate in a self-directed project.

This is a research course for intellectuals who are artists and artists who are intellectuals. The course will focus on the Nineteen Twenties as an era whose excesses and preoccupations were dances of death performed at the edge of a mass grave containing the bodies of the seven million soldiers and fifty million civilians, who died in the war and in the pandemic that followed.

Making Documentary Theatre is a course in which participants will practice the building blocks of making theatre from historical events and real people. We will learn to conceive projects, gather information through techniques of primary interviews and various forms of research, and examine dramatic structure in its relationship to the content. We will work with verbatim text to explore staging methods for non-dramatic, and also construct narrative through playwriting and ensemble created methods.

Rooted in a practice of Paulo Freire's concept of praxis-"reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it," this course is comprised of three main segments: Research, skill building, and creative practice. We will begin the semester by researching practices of performance creation with children focusing on work intended to address social issues. Children's perspectives on their experiences as students in public education and as active participants in their communities will also be explored.

The course is designed for creative writers interested in the 'literary magical,' in women's visions, and in discovering the richness of their own imaginations - in a powerful literary vein that will adhere to conventions of no particular genre. Students will be asked to: reimagine the real; write the future, the past, or the now, as they flourish in their own imaginarium; and discover what strange and unique visions might invigorate their writing.

Can a poem be a contemplative space? This generative workshop is designed for practicing poets who are interested in the effects of meditation/mindfulness practice on their writing and creativity. Workshop members will spend the first 10-20 minutes of each session actively engaged in meditation. The remainder of each class period will be spent in one of three ways: writing and creating work in response to prompts, discussing common readings, sharing work, and/or offering feedback to peers.

This workshop course explores principles of acting through the lens of contemporary American drama, and simultaneously pushes our perceptions of gender. In addition to expanding physical awareness, vocal expression and relaxation & focus, we will consider the ever-changing historical, cultural and social landscapes that have defined and continue to define male, female and gender non-conforming identities, and develop a vocabulary for translating those identities to the stage.

About the prose poem, poet Campbell McGrath asks, "Do the formal fields end where the valley begins, or does everything that surrounds us emerge from its embrace?" We will explore this well-established (yet liminal) form in workshop. Assignments will include weekly readings and responses to published and peer work, imitations, and writing exercises. Each workshop member is required to maintain a course journal and to complete one formal presentation of the work of a published (prose) poet.

This course explores the creation and analysis of interdisciplinary theatre through the lens of the theatrical jazz aesthetic. We will combine music, movement and non-linear narrative to create short dramatic pieces, and deconstruct the work of such theatre artists as Laurie Carlos, Sharon Bridgforth and Daniel Alexander Jones.

Literary Journalism encompasses a variety of genres, including portrait/biography, memoir, and investigation of the social landscape. Literary journalism uses such devices as plot, character, and spoken language to tell true stories about a variety of real worlds. By combining evocation with analysis, immersion with investigation, literary journalism tries to reproduce the complex surfaces and depths of people, places, and events. Books to be read may include: Stein's EDIE, Sack's AWAKENINGS, Finkel's THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, and Wilkerson's THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS.