Artspeak
233 Carrall Street
Vancouver, BC, V6B 2J2
Canada
Artspeak invites submissions for its second STUDIO FOR EMERGING WRITERS. Led by Vancouver writer SHERYDA WARRENER, the aim of the studio is to facilitate a dialogue with post-secondary/recent graduate students ages 18–24 from the visual art and creative writing disciplines to address the problems and pleasures of using language as both a mode of communication and an art medium. Specially tailored for students who are engaged with language as medium, and/or who are interested in its narrative and poetic possibilities.
How has text been incorporated into the field of art, and to what effect? How can art and writing positively influence each other to evolve new forms and modes of speaking? What shape can this inquiry take? Through collaborative creative acts, studio and gallery visits, workshops, and close readings of selected works, writers will explore the shapes and modes that came before, and the as-yet-unspeakable, as-yet-unspoken.
The studio will span the course of ten months, beginning at the end of May 2017 through March 2018. Participants will receive an honorarium for their contributions. A collection of the writing generated over the course of the studio will be published and launched in Spring 2018.
This studio emphasizes collaborative, experiential learning. Interested writers will be willing to enter into a discussion with genuine curiosity and a spirit of generosity and sharing. Applicants should submit a portfolio, including an introduction and brief statement of interest (max. 1 page), as well as a selection of work (2 – 4 samples of creative/critical writing), via email to writingstudio@artspeak.ca
Individuals with diverse writing sensibilities, educational, and cultural backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to apply.
Deadline for submission is Wednesday, May 10, 2017.
SHERYDA WARRENER is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Floating is Everything (Nightwood, 2015). Her work has been featured in a recent Believer art issue, and shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, the Arc Magazine Poem of the Year, the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, and selected as runner-up for Lemon Hound’s inaugural poetry contest. She lives and writes in Vancouver, where she is a lecturer in the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia.
ARTSPEAK is a non-profit artist run centre established in 1986. The mandate of the gallery is to encourage a dialogue between visual art and writing. Artspeak actively contributes to cultural communities through our commitment to artists producing challenging, innovative work in diverse media, our affiliation with other organizations, and the public interest we generate in contemporary art.
Artspeak gratefully acknowledges the BC Arts Council Youth Engagement program for their support of this initiative.