Course Information

Recorded on May 17th 2022.

What happens when the text becomes an image? This 60 min. workshop explores the idea of making poetry, merging the writing studio and art studio into a blurred space where hand writing and graphic design combine to visually represent meaningful, emotional content. Guided by writer and teacher Chantal Gibson, participants will practice graphic writing exercises using examples from in her books How She Read and with/holding. With pen, markers, pencils and paper, participants will transform text into images to create unique graphic translations. For this online workshop participants will need sheets of white paper, black markers (various thicknesses), pens, pencils, erasures, scissors and clear tape—and imagination. No formal writing or drawing experience required.
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Instructor

Chantal Gibson

Chantal Gibson (chantalgibson.com) is an award-winning artist-educator living on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Working in the overlap between literary and visual art, her work confronts colonialism head on, imagining the BIPOC voices silenced in the spaces and omissions left by cultural and institutional erasure. Her visual art has been exhibited across Canada and the US. Her debut poetry collection, How She Read (Caitlin Press, 2019) explores the representation of Black women in Canadian history, art, literature. It won the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her follow-up collection, with/holding (Caitlin Press, 2021) brings a critical lens to the representation and reproduction of Blackness across digital media. Recipient of the 20213M National Teaching Fellowship, she teaches in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University.

Course curriculum

    1. Exploring Graphic Poetry When the Form Becomes the Content

About this course

  • $20.00
  • 1 lesson
  • 1 hour of video content

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