Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre

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Arts for Equity - Painting Poetry Workshop with Mavis Penney (VIRTUAL)

72 Harbour Dr

St. John's, NL A1C 6K1, Canada


Painting Poetry Workshop by Mavis Penney
Free

Zoom, 2:30 pm -5:00 pm, June 10, 2026


Mavis Penney, Happy Valley-Goose Bay visual artist and writer, will discuss poetry based on paintings, and demonstrate how writing descriptive poetry can focus your attention on a painting's meaning.


The two-hour online workshop would allow participants to examine an artwork of their choice, develop connections with it, write out their ideas, condense that writing to its essence, and arrange their thoughts into a poem relating their experience / interpretation of the artwork.


Participants can base their writing on an artwork of their choice—either an original painting, drawing or a print that they can have with them online, or else a reproduction such as a computer printout or a print from a book of a 2-dimensional artwork that they enjoy.



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