2024
Wiawaka Writing Classes: Lake George through the senses and Georgia O'Keeffe's art
Wiawaka Center for Women
3778 State Rt. 9L, Lake George, NY 12845
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
https://www.wiawaka.org/writing-classes
10:00 - 12:00 pm - Lake George through the senses and Georgia OKeeffes art
Instructor: Johannah Spero
$30 for the writing class
In this fun, interactive workshop, we will focus on imagery as a literary device, taking inspiration from majestic Lake Georgein person and as seen in Georgia OKeeffes artwork. From journaling to guided meditation to exploration of the outdoors, participants will transpose their interaction with nature into sensory descriptionswhich will become lines of poetry. The workshop will culminate in an individual and group poem to memorialize Lake George, as OKeeffe has done in the canon of American art.
With a BA in English literature from UMass Amherst and a Masters in Teaching from Simmons College, Johannah Davies Spero teaches composition and creative writing at SUNY Adirondack. The award-winning author of 8 novels under the name JD Spero, she has done author visits in school classrooms across the Northeast and has taught writing workshops locally for BOCES enrichment, and also at yoga retreats, Wiawaka, the Hyde Collection, Chingachgook Womens Retreat and, most notably, following the footsteps of Stephen King at Exeter High in New Hampshire. After living in the Boston area for over twenty years, she returned to her hometown of Lake George to raise her three boysalthough her family will always root for Boston sports teams.
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