The Interlochen College of Creative Arts has been expanding classes for adults in a variety of disciplines. This fall ICCA is offering 6 workshops:
Journal and Sketchbook Workshop
Co-taught by a visual artist and a writer, this workshop is geared toward writers and artists of all levels.This pairing and interplay of text and image is a time-honored artistic tradition, practiced by writers and artists from Mark Twain to Henri Matisse to Sylvia Plath to Jean-Michel Basquiat, and is useful for all manners of creative expression.
Program dates:
Saturday, September 19, 2015 to Sunday, September 20, 2015
Deep Revision Workshop
Whether trying to revise a stand-alone chapter or considering the broader arc of your full manuscript, these techniques are graspable, effective, and empowering. You’ll come away with a greater understanding of your strengths as a nonfiction writer, as well as systematic tools to address areas for improvement.
Program dates:
Saturday, October 17, 2015 to Sunday, October 18, 2015
Materialize Your Inner Life: A Creative Writing Bootcamp
Come practice imagination’s rightful place in the lives of 21st century humans when we use free writing, collage, verbal improvisations and other text-based experiments to encourage leaps offaith, unlikely associations, fresh imagery and dazzling language.
Program dates:
Saturday, October 24, 2015 to Sunday, October 25, 2015
Protecting Your Creativity: Planning, Contracts and Copyright for Artists
Calling all creative entrepreneurs! Join arts administrator and attorney-at-law, Kate Hude, to learn more about basic business entities, business planning and how financial considerations, copyright and contracts play a role in starting or managing your creative business.
Program dates: Saturday, October 24, 2015
Pushing the Story: A Fiction Writing Weekend
Been working on your novel or your short stories? Eager to push something toward completion? Join award-winning author, Patricia Ann McNair for Pushing the Story, an intensive workshop experience for fiction writers.
Program dates:
Saturday, November 7, 2015 to Sunday, November 8, 2015
The Art of Handmade Books
Learn the basics of how to create artful, handmade books in this one-day workshop.
Program dates: Saturday, November 7, 2015