Painting and Poetry with Cathleen Cohen
Do you jot down ideas as you paint? Maybe you have an ongoing writing practice and are inspired by visual art. Join poet and artist Cathleen Cohen to explore ekphrasis, the link between images and words. Deepen and expand your creative process even if you've never written a poem or lifted a brush! Cathleen will demonstrate some watercolor techniques (her chosen medium), but you can draw and/or paint with any materials in response to prompts in a supportive environment. Learn how artists like Jean Arp, Kenneth Patchen and Wassily Kandinsky linked the written word and visual art. Practice writing about your and others’ work and garner ideas for artists’ statements. All levels welcome.
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Date: 4 weeks, Friday, January 17 - February 7, 2025
Time: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fee: $175
Register by: January 10 (space is limited)
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Student Testimonial:
I cannot emphasize enough how wonderful and valuable Cathy Cohen's workshop on poetry and art was, and I'm speaking as an artist who has spent most of his life keeping poetry at arm's length. Cathy is not only an excellent teacher, she is patient and kind, particularly for a poetry tenderfoot like me.
The most enduring gift of Cathy's workshop was her introduction of a path of understanding art that I had never before considered. By focusing and collecting my thoughts about a work of art in order to write a poem, I encountered an unexpected and welcome tool for finding a deeper understanding of the work that had previously eluded me. I will continue to write poems to explore my work and that of others, and to find a deeper understanding of myself.
For these reasons, I would think that Cathy's workshop would be valuable and enjoyable not simply to "artists" and "poets," but to anyone seeking an opening to either or both disciplines.
Jeff Thomsen, painter
Cathleen Cohen is a poet, painter, teacher and member of the Cerulean Arts Collective. She was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. She created the We the Poets program for children at Artwell. Her poems appear in journals such as Apiary, Baltimore Review, Cagibi, East Coast Ink, North of Oxford, One Art Journal, Passager, Philadelphia Stories, Rockvale Review, Rogue Agent and Toho Journal. She authored Camera Obscura (Moonstone Press, 2017), Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press, 2021) and Sparks and Disperses (Cornerstone Press, 2021). She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with a Certificate in Painting. View her website here.