VISUAL POETRY WORKSHOP
Visual Poetry is the hybridization of visual art and language, useful for poetic expression.
Promoting skills in composition, drawing, collage, and creative language use, Visual Poetry is a fun and low-stakes way to explore our more adventurous and ineffable cognitive connections.
In this workshop
Participants will enjoy a facilitated creative environment and leave with a visual poem of their making.
The structure
● looking exercise (15 mins)
● Instructions (7 mins)
● time for creative flow and supported work (remainder of time)
○ Depending on the pace and scale of the workshop, we may have time for show and tell.
You should bring…
Paper, journal, something to write on
Pencil, pen, markers, and mark-making instruments (no paint, calligraphy nibs, and/or watercolor).
Your curious mind
What are the benefits?
For all ages, this might look like exploring our sense of humor, mapping a thought, and enjoying aha moments about how we relate words and images outside the context of advertisements,reading, and formal environments.
Art making opens our mind/body connection, encouraging the Flow State. As we foster flow states in creative spaces, we more readily enter this flow in all aspects of our lives.
Surprising or not, creative making instills greater self-confidence and interest in our surroundings and social connections.
How can people support Briget’s work?
Daily, anyone can support my work by shopping ASTRAL THEORY, stickers, and art using my online store or buying from my local stockists, Femme Fatale DC (Cleveland Park) and Relume Co. (Eastern Market).
THE ARTIST
Briget Heidmous Bio
Briget Heidmous [1989] is an artist, creative entrepreneur, freelance brand manager, strategist, curator, and educator in Washington, DC. With a BA in Studio Art from Hastings College, she has participated in visiting artist programs at Tyler School of Art and Burren College of Art, Ireland. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and through ad-hoc performances in Washington DC, Ireland, Philadelphia, France, and throughout her home-state, Colorado. She is the Brand Manager and Strategist at Femme Fatale DC and co-founder of ARTARIANICA, a visual poetry collaboration. As assistant curator for experimental programs at Colorado College (January 2013- November 2017), she administered programming and budgets, working closely with organizations, academics, and artists, including Senga Nengudi, Raven Chacon, Basim Magdy, Ruben Aguirre, Ryan Banagale, and MASS Design Group. As a creative entrepreneur, Heidmous organizes experience-centric activations that leverage the power of collaboration between creatives and entrepreneurs to transform space to place.
Heidmous is known for developing concept-driven proposals to achieve high-level collaborative outcomes. www.briget-heidmous.com
Briget Heidmous Artists Statement
As a zero-waste, non-disciplinary artist, my work manifests in hybrid forms involving performance, installation, drawing, painting, and street art. I interrogate and connect Theoretical Physics, Neuroscience, and Psychology through creative praxis. To uncover the convergence of these categorically separate subjects, I generate art objects and experiences that reveal their interconnectivity. In what ways do categorically separate disciplines converge? What are the impacts of human energy? How can we conduct profitable experimentation in dynamic, non-disciplinary spaces? In what ways are all things mutable? In response to such mega-quandaries, I work to describe and disrupt systems and patterns on the singular, personal, level and on the collective, communal, level. I make physical and visual the acts, examinations, and outcomes of patterning by creating objects and moments that explore the tensions of desire, frustration, and change
THE SPACE
About Culture House Gallery
Culture House Gallery is a non-profit art gallery offering rotating exhibitions for emerging artists throughout the DMV and beyond. A rare find in the fine art space: artists manage their own sales and receive 100% of sales completed while work is displayed at Culture House.