Workshop Series for Creative Writing Masters Students
Pacific Northwest College of Art and Design
Portland, Oregon, 2025
Purpose: To kick off the summer residency line up for remote creative writing masters students. To create a container that encouraged students to build life long relationships with each other and gain inspiration to propel their practice. Spark conversation, teamwork, and creative play.
Approach: Present a visual lecture and offer hands on demonstrations to highlight weaving and writing practices as deeply related and therefor encourage a different viewpoint to approach both. Guide students to co-author weavings, writings, drafts, and codes through various hands-on exercises and prompts. Digestable reading assigned beforehand prepared students so they were ready to dive in.
Presented content:
- The materiality of recorded language
- Etymological traces connecting weaving and writing
- High and low context cultures; literacy of craft
- Cross-cultural cosmology embedded into weaving
- Weaving patterns, techniques, and material and color considerations
Examples of student work:
