Write Your Way through the GalleriesSecond Thursday of the Month 10:30 am-12:30 pm Members: FREE | Not-Yet-Members: $20 Join us on the second Thursday of the month for a morning of writing as inspired by art! We will explore different avenues to ekphrastic writing, or writing creatively as inspired by art, in the galleries. Exemplary writing by contemporary or historical local writers will be shared. Generative prompts will be offered to spark creativity. A community space, the Writers Salon is a welcoming and supportive environment for writers and artists of all levels and genres who’d like to engage with art in a new way! Register Here June 11: Nature Sparks Reflection | Writing Technique: Minute, explosive language and personal reflection with haibun & haiku | Gallery Tour of Charles E. Burchfield: A VAST, tiny WORLD July 9: What Lies Beneath | Writing Technique: Push and pull of language with braided lyric essay | Gallery Tour of Valeria Cray: Surface Tension August 13: Character Magic | Writing Technique: Unique, imaginative characters with story building | Gallery Tour of Adam Weekly: Camp Everything About the Instructor Lucia LoTempio is a poet, editor, educator, and arts administrator. She the author of the lyric Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books, 2020). With Suzannah Russ Spaar, she co-authored the chapbook Undone in Scarlet (Tammy, 2019). She is an Education Associate at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, an Editor of Poetry for The Offing, and serves on the Editorial Board for Alice James Books. Lucia lives and writes in Buffalo, NY. You can find an extended bio and a full list of publications on her website.
The art center dedicated to the work of Charles E. Burchfield + the art and artists of Buffalo, NY and our region.
