Spend the day mining connections between art and language with two art-inspired poetry workshops.rnrnTo begin the day, Museum Educator Wendy Gottlieb and Tuckahoe Common School ELA Teacher Kerry Terry will present their collaborative ode lesson inspired by a work of art in the Parrish’s permanent collection. Participants will then create illustrated odes based on a work of their choice! The afternoon will be held at The Watermill Center where Bridgehampton Middle and High School ELA Teacher Tom House will lead a compressed version of an Ekphrastic Poetry Writing Workshop. This lesson is from a unit he has taught in his Creative Writing and AP Literature courses which has incorporated a day-long field trip to the Watermill Center. At the culmination of the unit, students hone a free verse poem inspired by an artwork or object and have the opportunity to get feedback in a relaxed sharing circle and to publish their poems in electronic and print anthologies.
