Visual Poetry is the hybridization of visual art and language, useful for poetic expression. Promoting skills in composition, drawing, collage, and creative language use, Visual Poetry is a fun and low-stakes way to explore our more adventurous and ineffable cognitive connections.
Participants will enjoy a facilitated creative environment and leave with a visual poem of their making.
The Structure
Looking exercise
Instructions
Time for creative flow and supported work (remainder of time)
Depending on the pace and scale of the workshop, we may have time for show and tell.
You should bring…
Paper, journal, something to write on
Pencil, pen, markers, and mark-making instruments (no paint, calligraphy nibs, and/or watercolor).
Your curious mind
What are the benefits?
For all ages, this might look like exploring our sense of humor, mapping a thought, and enjoying aha moments about how we relate words and images outside the context of advertisements, reading, and formal environments.
Art making opens our mind/body connection, encouraging the Flow State. As we foster flow states in creative spaces, we more readily enter this flow in all aspects of our lives.
Surprising or not, creative making instills greater self-confidence and interest in our surroundings and social connections.
ABOUT BRIGET
Briget Heidmous [1989] is an artist, creative entrepreneur, and freelance brand manager in Washington, DC. With a BA in Studio Art from Hastings College, she has participated in visiting artist programs at Tyler School of Art and Burren College of Art, Ireland. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and through ad-hoc performances in Washington DC, Ireland, Philadelphia, France, and throughout her home-state, Colorado. She is a thought leader at Femme Fatale DC and co-founder of ARTARIANICA, a visual poetry collaboration. As assistant curator for experimental programs at Colorado College (January 2013- November 2017), she worked closely with organizations, academics, and artists, including Senga Nengudi, Raven Chacon, Basim Magdy, Ruben Aguirre, Ryan Banagale, and MASS Design Group. Heidmous is known for developing concept-driven proposals to achieve high-level collaborative outcomes. www.briget-heidmous.com
