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Native Storytellers Teach: Generative Workshops for Creative Wordsmiths
In conjunction with the exhibition Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s–1970s, SLAM is collaborating with the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and the St. Louis County Library for four small-group writing workshops. Native authors Abigail Chabitnoy, Deborah Jackson Taffa, Chip Livingston, and Layli Long Soldier will lead writing workshops at the Museum and multiple St. Louis County Library branches. The workshops are free, but space is limited and registration is required. See below for registration links.
Writing Ekphrastic Workshop: The Art of Description
Saint Louis Art Museum
Join author Abigail Chabitnoy at the Museum for a writing workshop that focuses on generative ways to engage and complicate visual narrative through poetry. This workshop is for adults at all levels—beginners to advanced. Refreshments will be provided.
Abigail Chabitnoy
Writing Creative Nonfiction Workshop: The Art of the Essay
St. Louis County Library, Florissant Valley Branch
The Art of the Essay will be taught by writer and director of the MFA in Creative Writing at IAIA, Deborah Jackson Taffa. A citizen of the Yuma Kwaa-Tsaan Nation, and descendent of Laguna Pueblo, her stories have appeared in The Rumpus, The Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, HuffPost, Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Lunch will be provided.
Deborah Jackson Taffa
Writing Fiction Workshop: The Art of Narrative Writing
St. Louis County Library, Thornhill Branch
The Art of Narrative Writing will be taught by Chip Livingston. Chip Livingston is the mixed-blood Creek author of three poetry collections, and a collection of short stories and essays and is the editor of He is the editor of Love, Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward. He teaches in the low-rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Lunch will be provided.
Chip Livingston
Writing Poetry Workshop: Using all the Page
St. Louis County Library, Meramec Valley Branch
The Art of Poetry: Using all the Page, will be taught by Layli Long Soldier, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, is a poet, IAIA alum, and mentor in the MFA of Creative Writing program at IAIA. Her poetry has received many awards, including the NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize in the UK. Lunch will be provided.
This event is supported by a grant from the Trio Foundation of Saint Louis.
