Van Gogh's Life and Letters Writing Workshop with Inside Out Literary Arts
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Friday, Oct 28, 2022
5:15 p.m.
| Free with registration |
*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties.
Vincent van Gogh was a master of capturing the people and places that shaped him into the artist we all think we know. The letters of Van Gogh offer further insights into the man behind the paint. As in his paintings, a strong sense of self, scene, situation, and setting emerge in his letters.
In this writing workshop offered in conjunction with the exhibition Van Gogh in America, we will look closely at several of these letters to see the writer behind the artist and be inspired to paint with words the world as we know it.
Peter Markus is the Senior Writer with InsideOut Literary Arts. Markus is the author of a number of books of fiction, among them We Make Mud and The Fish and the Not Fish, which was selected as a Notable Michigan Book in 2015. Markus's most recent book is the collection of poems, When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds, which explores the death of his father and how this experience shaped Markus to see the world through sharper eyes.
Vincent van Gogh was a master of capturing the people and places that shaped him into the artist we all think we know. The letters of Van Gogh offer further insights into the man behind the paint. As in his paintings, a strong sense of self, scene, situation, and setting emerge in his letters.
In this writing workshop offered in conjunction with the exhibition Van Gogh in America, we will look closely at several of these letters to see the writer behind the artist and be inspired to paint with words the world as we know it.
Peter Markus is the Senior Writer with InsideOut Literary Arts. Markus is the author of a number of books of fiction, among them We Make Mud and The Fish and the Not Fish, which was selected as a Notable Michigan Book in 2015. Markus's most recent book is the collection of poems, When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds, which explores the death of his father and how this experience shaped Markus to see the world through sharper eyes.