TIME AND TIME AGAIN: THE ART OF REPETITION
Ages 16-29
Winter 2024, Online
In this poetry and photography workshop, student fellows will explore the possibilities of repetition as a means of wrestling with abiding interests. Through in-class exercises and challenges, they’ll experiment with repetition of words and phrases, of details within compositions, and of complete compositions in a series. They’ll analyze the work of accomplished literary and lens-based artists, considering a wide range of formal devices, and how design can reveal thematic content. And they’ll locate and reflect on patterns in their own surroundings and in their own thinking, creating art grounded in what fascinates, or perhaps obsesses, them. Each fellow will develop a portfolio of writing and images, and their work will be shared on the program website and at a public exhibition. Limited to 12 student fellows.
Lucy Bucknell teaches film studies and screenwriting in the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is the founding director of Writing Outside the Fence, a writing program for the formerly incarcerated and their extended community.
Somer Greer is a writer and photographer who lived in Baltimore for close to a decade, working as a writing instructor at Johns Hopkins University and other schools in the Mid-Atlantic. He now lives on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, Louisiana. Currently, he is working on a series of candid photos of Cajun musicians.
