show:tell - Summer Workshop for Teen Writers:Artists
"That was the first time I'd been exposed to other people as interested in writing as myself, and it was truly inspiring. I loved every second."
– Madeline Gobbo, workshop participant
Summer Workshop for Teen Writers:Artists
One-week Workshop
Monday, July 12 to Friday, July 16
Two-week Workshop
Monday, July 12 to Friday, July 23
Students may earn three Marylhurst University credits.
Application
Application Deadline: July 1
The workshop accepts applications beginning March 2010. A student is encouraged to apply early, as the workshop fills rapidly. A student receives confirmation within four weeks after receipt of application. Registrations received by July 1, 2010, are given preference.
Creative Writing and Contemporary Arts Program
The Workshop for Teen Writers:Artists is a two-week seminar in which high school students (ages 14 to 18) receive college-level instruction in creative writing and contemporary arts.
Located on Marylhurst University's historic campus, the workshop focuses on developing a student's skills as a creative writer, inventive artist, critical thinker and spirited collaborator within a generous, diverse community of learners. The program combines writing and interdisciplinary art workshops, production of text-based projects and public readings. Seminar-style classes are taught by professional working visual artists and writers of short stories, poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
Workshops
The program includes introductory and advanced workshops in prose and poetry along with introductory workshops that focus on contemporary art ideas and methods (sitte-specific installation, collaborative performance and sound work, and assemblage sculpture).
A student generates material through guided exercises; studies craft through models; and engages in a critical discussion of fellow classmates’ work. By the end of the program, a student produces two complete short stories/memoirs or five to seven poems, along with a small portfolio of artistic projects.
Readings/Show
Faculty members give public readings and show works of visual art. At open mic night during the first week, a student can share his or her work. The program ends with an all-student reading/exhibition to which parents and community members are invited.
Meals
A student brings his or her own lunch, or food can be purchased from the Marylhurst University Bookstore. Pizza and party subs are provided at the early evening readings. The all-student reading and reception on Friday, July 23, is a bring-your-own-food-and-beverage family picnic.
Schedule
Week One
Monday, July 12, 8 am to 3:30 pm
Tuesday, July 13, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Wednesday, July 14, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Thursday, July 15, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Friday, July 16, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Week Two
Monday, July 19, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Tuesday, July 20, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Wednesday, July 21, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Thursday, July 22, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Friday, July 23, 9 am to 5 pm
Tuition
Two-week Workshop: $575
One-week Workshop: $375
Scholarships
A limited number of partial and full scholarships are available. Recipients must attend the full two-week course. To apply, send registration form (with appropriate box checked) by May 3, 2010. Scholarships are awarded based on need. Students who have financial means to pay for the workshop are asked to not apply for a scholarship.
Faculty
Laura Moulton earned an MFA from Eastern Washington University. She has taught writing workshops in high schools, universities and a homeless shelter for teens. She currently teaches writing at Portland high schools through the Writers in The Schools program, and has taught at Mt. Hood Community College and the women’s prison in Wilsonville. Her work has been featured in Hip Mama, Nervy Girl, Portland Tribune, and Brain, Child. Her encaustic and collage work has been shown in galleries around Portland, and she completed a public art project commissioned by Portland State University in 2009.
Bethany Ides is a performance-video-installation artist, writer, independent curator and editor who typically combines strategies of several disciplines to approach the problems of yet other ones. Grounded in the field of experimental poetics, Ides is the author of several chapbooks including Indeed, Insist (a mystery) [Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005] and Approximate L [Cosa Nostra Editions, 2009]. Her time-based work has been presented at venues such as the Brooklyn Museum and PS122 in New York, and at Gallery Homeland and Worksound Gallery in Portland. She currently teaches courses in the Foundation and Liberal Arts departments at Pacific Northwest College of Art and at Marylhurst University where she is leading a new theory and practice seminar called Text:Art.
Carson Cistulli is the author of a book of poems titled, Some Common Weakness Illustrated (Casagrande, 2007). He contributes to FanGraphs, Huffington Post, and Hardball Times, in addition to serving as the expert for NBA.com's Pick One Challenge. He holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts and teaches writing in Portland.
Dan Kaplan is the author of Bill’s Formal Complaint (The National Poetry Review Press, 2008) and the bilingual chapbook SKIN (Red Hydra Press, 2005). His work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, POOL, Meridian, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, the anthology Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton & Co.), and elsewhere. He teaches at Portland State University and lives in Portland.
Turiya Autry teaches university courses in Black Studies and Women Studies. Over the past decade, she has provided classes, workshops and performances to students and audiences of all ages throughout Oregon, as well as nationally, at more than 20 universities and 50 K-12 schools. She’s shared stages with well known figures like bell hooks, John Trudell, Nikki Giovanni, Ursula Le Guin, Lyrics Born, Spearhead, Saul Williams, Kevin Garnett and Hillary Clinton (when she was the first lady). Portland’s 2003 'Grand-Slam Poetry Champion,' she represented Portland at the national poetry competitions in 2000, 2001 and 2003.
Natalie Serber is a recipient of the John Steinbeck Award for Short Fiction, the H. E. Francis Award for Fiction, the San Francisco PEN Women's Fiction Award and the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Inkwell Magazine, Bellingham Review and the anthology Airfare: Poems, Stories and Essays on Flying. She received an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Jay Ponteri earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. An associate professor in the English Literature & Writing Department at Marylhurst University, he teaches seminars in short prose, fiction writing and contemporary literature. He has published prose in Seattle Review, Salamander, Puerto Del Sol, Clackamas Literary Review, Eye-Rhyme: A Journal of New Literature, Northwest Edge iii, Cimarron Review and Del Sol Review.
GUEST WRITERS + ARTISTS
Jenny Boully is the author of The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande, 2007), [one love affair]* (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006), and The Body (Essay Press, 2007). Tarpaulin Sky Press will publish her new book, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them, in spring 2011. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2002, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present and The Next American Essay, and has appeared in Boston Review, Seneca Review, Tarpaulin Sky and Conjunctions. Born in Thailand and reared in Texas, she holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and presently teaches in the MFA program at Columbia College in Chicago.
Van Wheeler earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. He teaches writing and literature seminars at Portland Community College. He has published poems in Southern Poetry Review, Rocky Mountain Review and Forklift.
Hayley Barker is an intermedia artist whose current work consists primarily of drawings and video installations. Her work has been included in shows such as Froelick Gallery, Disjecta and Pacific Switchboard. She teaches at Marylhurst University and Pacific Northwest College of Art. She earned an MA and MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa and an MAT in Art Education from Lewis & Clark College.
Charles D’Ambrosio is the author of two story collections, Dead Fish Museum (Knopf) and The Point (Little Brown). He teaches in the MFA program at Portland State University and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Contact Us
For more information on The Binford Workshop for Teen Writers:Artists, contact Jay Ponteri.
