This course will explore how to use a work of art to tell a personal story. We will look at memoirs, essays, and reviews to look at how art – in any medium – can inform and elevate our understanding of ourselves, and the world.
By doing close reading of how writers use paintings, books, poems, films, video games and other art forms to illuminate personal experiences, we will learn how to craft our own stories.
Writing prompts shall cover writing about art that you’ve had a changing relationship with over time; how to discuss emotional life events and the experience of the body through art; and how even popular, ‘lowbrow’ art can hold profound meaning.
Roe McDermott is a writer, journalist and Fulbright scholar with an MA in Journalism, an MA in Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State University, and an MFA in Creative Writing. Roe is a columnist for The Irish Times, the film editor for Hot Press magazine, an arts critic for various publications and national radio shows and has had essays published on The Rumpus and The Coven.
Dates: Tuesdays at 6.30– 8.30 pm, 19 August - 23 September 2025
Location: Online
Cost: €190 (€171 Members)
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