Alliance for Continued Learning (ACL)
Thank you to everyone for joining us in another fantastic spring session!
We look forward to seeing everyone again on September 15th.
More Community Classes Below
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Buffalo Mountain Writers Workshop
Recollections & Retrospections: A Creative Examination of our Mind's Eye
As the year begins to wind down, nostalgia often tends to take hold as we all begin looking back on the year, and deciding what we've made of it. Recollections & Retrospections: A Creative Examination of our Mind's Eye is a poetry workshop intended to interrogate the creative role of memories, using the writers' personal recollections as fuel for the creative writing process. During each class, Dr. Anne Acker will introduce three different styles of poetry intended for each day's associated theme.
Day One, September 10th, will be a day dedicated to Personal Memory. For this class, the work begins from home--students should bring a work appropriate object from their house (the longer they've owned the item the better). After a round of storytelling and creative brainstorming, students will write a poem about said item before sharing their work with the class for further refinement. This exercise encourages students to consider themselves and their lives through a creative lens, harnessing their poet's eye and nuturing the necessity for the mind's attention to finer details within the poetic process.
Day Two, September 17th, depicts a Memory Through Someone Else's Eyes. During this class, Dr. Acker will introduce students to the creative style of Ekphrastic Poetry before providing a slideshow of images depicting a variety of famous art pieces for students to choose from. Once comfortable with what they've generated, students will share with the class for further improvement. This activity illustrates a poet's memory as a conduit between their mind's eye and the page, demonstrating yet another instance of a poet's memory working as a fuel that stimulates the creative process.
The Final Day of this workshop, September 24th, revolves around a Cultural Memory--specifically, current events. This session will utilize the poetic style of Blackout Poetry as well as a variety of current events magazines to provoke the students' minds to creative thought, using their memories of the world around them to convey their artistic expression. This exercise emphasizes the importance of the external world and how it informs a poet's internal world, establishing a relationship between how creative minds interact with the world around them and how poets wish to approach the world via their art form.
This workshop is bound to be a fun and artistically introspective experience as students explore their mind's eye, and learn the ways in which poetry caters to personal examination through writing prompts, guided discussions, and supportive peer feedback.
Expect a renewed sense of connection to your voice, your stories, and the rhythm of your creative process.
All levels welcome. Bring a notebook, your favorite pen, and a readiness to write from the heart.
ETSU employees may use employee audit.Instructor
Elizabeth Anne Acker
Instructor- Dr. Anne Acker is the Program Coordinator for English at Tusculum University in Greeneville, TN. A lifelong native of East Tennessee, she holds degrees from Milligan University and East Tennessee State University, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Her areas of specialization include Renaissance Literature and Rhetoric, though she teaches a wide variety of courses for the English Program at Tusculum. Some of her teaching interests include mythology, science fiction and fantasy, as well as survey courses in British and World literatures. Her hobbies include photography, long drives on mountain roads and haunting bookstore cafes.
Cost is $169
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Metalsmithing a Rose
In this class, we will be making a copper rose with stem using basic sawing, hammer texturing, and soldering skills used in the jewelry making and metalsmithing industry.
Age 14+ (Under 18 MUST be accompanied by a guardian)
Please wear cotton or non-synthetic clothes that you don't mind getting very dirty, full-length pants, and close-toed shoes.
Brandon Harrell holds a BFA from ETSU, and an MFA from Bowling Green State University both focused on jewelry and metalsmithing. She has instructed at Toledo Museum of Art, The Idea Factory in Columbus, Ohio, and other galleries around the country. "When I watched others demo this craft in school, I felt like this was not just a skill to be learned, but magic that I desired the ability to do myself." says Brandon.
Registration fee includes materials and shop fees.Cost is $149
Class will be held Sept 12th.
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Refund/Cancellation Policy: There will be a fee of $30.00 for any cancellations one week prior to the course start date. No exceptions.