Image to Word
Art & Creative Writing
Kathleen Walsh-Piper
Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Twenty-five years ago, Kathleen Walsh-Piper played a game with her colleagues in the Saint Louis Art Museum education office. She asked them to write a poem about one of the works in the museum's collection, and then they all tried to guess which work was described. "The results were startling for all of us because they were so expressive," she writes. "So I began to integrate writing in the gallery with teaching in the museum, starting with modern art." That work encouraged her to write
Image to Word, a book that explores original ways to teach creative writing by using great art as an inspiration. Its nine chapters discuss such topics as "Breaking Down Barriers to Looking," "Using Paintings to Write about the Setting," and "Sculpture: The Sense of Form and Space." Also featured: a chapter focusing on younger students and "An Educator's [Positive] Response" to Walsh-Piper's ideas. The author, now director of the University of Kentucky Art Museum, is "convinced that there is a special synergy between writing and looking that is very creative. It is more than simple observation, description, or response. "There is an interplay between the images in the mind's eye and the words themselves." Includes a CD-ROM featuring a collection of images by known artists.
paper & CD-ROM | 127 pages | 2002
ISBN: 0-8108-4203-3
$30.00 (non-member cost)
$27.00 (member cost)
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