How do you transform “looking” into “inspiration”? How can a powerful story or poignant memory be found within a picture frame? What did John Keats, John Updike, and Mary Gordon see that you missed when gallery gazing? In this workshop, using the paintings, sculpture, and photography surrounding us in the art gallery where we meet, you will be guided through exercises to strengthen your powers of observation, interpretation, and imagination to expand your creativity and writing skills in fiction, poetry, memoir, and essay. Join us for an evening of inspiration and entertainment.  experienced and beginning writers, and anyone wanting to share an entertaining, inspiring, and intimate moment together. No experience needed!

Nancy Spiller teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program and is a critically acclaimed artist. She is the author of Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes) and her illustrated memoir Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned from My Mother’s Recipe Box was featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Huffington Post, and the Hallmark Channel’s “Home and Family Show”.  She is currently working on a novel set in Los Angeles in the 1930s. Join her on March 7-8, on Zoom: Words and Pictures: A Weekend Workshop in  Creative Writing from Visual Art: https://www.uclaextension.edu/writing/creative-writing/course/words-and-pictures-weekend-workshop-creative-writing-visual-art .