The Clark Art Institute's Writing Through Art Workshop

Join poet and educator Jan Freeman at the Clark Art Institute. This workshop will encourage participants to use art as a portal to open memories, emotion, and new ways of using language. Poems will be provided for inspiration, along with an exercise and writing prompts that accompany select paintings and sculptures by Renoir, Homer, Degas, and others in the galleries of this internationally acclaimed museum. Wear comfortable shoes and bring a pencil and notebook! Location: 225 South St, Williamstown, MA 01267. 

To register, email bmlashfield@gmail.com or janfreemanpoetry@gmail.com. This program is free of charge and open to 14 new and experienced poets from Ashfield, the Hilltowns, and the Pioneer Valley. (Minimum age: 16.) 

*The Writing Through Art program is co-sponsored by Ashfield’s Belding Memorial Library and the Clark Art Institute. The workshop is funded in part by a grant from the Ashfield Local Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.* 

Jan Freeman is a longtime resident of Ashfield and the author of three books of poetry. She is the founder and former director of Paris Press, an imprint of Wesleyan University Press. She is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships, the Spiral Shell Fellowship at Moulin a Nef, and numerous fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including American Poetry Review, North American Review, Barrow Street, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Patterson Review, Plume, Poetry, and Tar River. She directs the MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreats and teaches online weekly poetry workshops.