An Evening of Art and Writing

This is more a Save the Date item but next month the Georgia Museum of Art will host an event that connects the humanities with visual art in a very, well, creative, way:

Professor Judith Ortiz Cofer’s advanced creative writing class presents an evening of readings inspired by works of art in the museum’s permanent collection. The evening features the work of students in ENGL 4800 advanced creative writing workshop, taught by Regents’ and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing Judith Ortiz Cofer. The students toured the GMOA during spring semester, and each student selected a painting or sculpture on which to construct a narrative piece about that work to read at the May 3rd event. Cofer has included this event as a component of her workshop for several years; last semester she had students select artifacts from the Special Collections Libraries Building, and the students read at that location in December.  More frequently the event has taken place at the Georgia Museum of Art.

Our creative writing program is one of the big attractions of the English department, with a faculty that attracts students from all over. We'll update with more information from Professor Cofer hopefully soon. But for now, the event is at 6:30 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium at the GMOA.

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