Reboot as the Spring Semester Begins March 26th

Hey all! Thanks for your patience while I reformatted scheduling and topics. This is the schedule, starting Feb 26th. Attendance/homework isn't mandatory, though obviously would lead to maximum benefit for participants. Should you have any questions, please reach out!
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some quick thoughts: title slide: "A fun ekphrastic writing workshop for you to experience art!" as a viewer, I don't really know what is going to happen. I already hoped it was fun/interesting; being told that it's fun makes me nervous it won't be. I also don't know if the goal is really about experiencing art. Couldn't I just go to the museum? I recommend going deeper into what the real goal of this workshop is that nothing else can copy or accomplish
the slides with the pictures and poems or just pictures can work--it all depends on the activity and staging. I'm wondering if a question that engages more with a specific outcome could be helpful (e.g., what emotions does this painting evoke vs what five elements suggest joy/what five elements in the painting suggest fear). Consider concrete, measurable goals that each question could arrive at
instead of a bio slide, it could just be a picture of Georgia, and then you could talk through the key points
the approaches slide and the prompt slide are both very wordy; for approaches, consider an acronym or pattern and explain what each letter means
E.g., The 6 A's To Approach Ekphrasis
Act
Address
Assess
Anthropomorphize
Animate
Articulate
hope this helps!