Sat June 16, 2018
Summer 2018 – The Vault: Open-Genre Writing Studio
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at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) - closed
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THE VAULT: OPEN-GENRE WRITING STUDIOGenine LentineUp to 6 sessions >> Saturdays, June 16, 23, 30, July 14, 21, 28(no session July 7 due to 4th of July holiday)10am–1pm, Studio 16A, $60 per session or $295 if you enroll in all six classesClass sessions are freestanding and also build upon each other. We encourage you to enroll in all six sessions to get the most out of your writing practice. However, you can enroll in any and all sessions that work with your schedule.
Writing thrives in fresh attention. How can we come to our process open, free of preconception, ready for anything? How do we nourish this capacity? Stock cinematic visions of the creative process suggest inspiration seizes us in sudden gusts or that it’s a lucky endowment. But what if inspiration, as the painter Agnes Martin suggests, is always there, and our access to it is a function of our receptivity? How can we be, as poet Stanley Kunitz puts it, “a friendly host?”
In this writing class, each session includes a focus on craft and process, ample time for generative exercises, close readings, and guided discussion of students’ work. Above all, we’ll delve into what may not yet be on the page, becoming alert to the living, breathing language we step over on our way to some idealized notion of writing. In training our attention and in tuning our listening, we’ll invite an inquiry into our own obstacles and habits and develop strategies for finding entry points, and sustaining a resilient writing practice.
The workshop cultivates an ethos of care and respect for each others’ risks and offerings, holding a space in which you can find camaraderie and perspective in your writing process. Readings will include Mark Doty, Maggie Nelson, Anne Carson, Terrance Hayes, Jane Hirshfield, Jen Bervin, Mark Epstein, Frances Richard, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Solmaz Sharif, Ross Gay, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, Mary Ruefle, and Ocean Vuong..
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Genine Lentine is the author of Archaeopteryx (Artifact, 2016); Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model (Kelly’s Cove, 2012); Found Dharma Talks (Missing LInks Press, 2012) and Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes (New Michigan Press, 2010). She is also co-author, with Stanley Kunitz of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (W.W. Norton, 2005). She received an M.S. in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. She has received grants and fellowships from Southern Exposure Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Hedgebrook, and the Boomerang Foundation. As Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco Zen Center (2009-10), she curated The Expert’s Mind: Ten Interdisciplinary Talks, and Nothing is Hidden, a series of readings, screenings and artist talks.. She teaches writing privately and at San Francisco Art Institute.
geninelentine.com
PLEASE NOTE: Public Education courses are held contingent on a minimum enrollment, which is determined two business days prior to a class start date. Public Education Staff will contact you ONLY if there is a course cancellation or change.
FAQs
What materials (if any) will I need to bring to class?Each course requires specific materials that we ask you bring to your first class session so you can get started making right away. Materials lists are available approximately two weeks prior to the course start date. Visit the SFAI website here, click on your course title, and then click on the blue "Materials List" link underneath the course dates. If you have any questions regarding materials, please contact Public Education Staff.What are my transport/parking options getting to San Francisco Art Institute?All classes, unless otherwise noted, meet at 800 Chestnut Street, between Jones and Leavenworth. You can find directions to campus on the SFAI website.
SFAI is located in a residential neighborhood, and free two-hour parking is available on all of the streets immediately surrounding the school. The two-hour restriction cuts off at 9 pm, so evening Public Education students do not need to move their car, unless you arrive prior to 7 pm.SFAI is easily accessible via public transportation, with Muni bus lines #30 Stockton, #45 Union, and #47 Van Ness located within a few blocks of campus.Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?SFAI Public Education Staff are always happy to answer any questions you may have about the Public Education program, or our courses. We are in the office Monday-Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. Call us at: 415.749.4554 or e-mail: [email protected]
What is the refund policy?Refund requests must be made in writing to [email protected].
For courses that meet for ten sessions or more, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given if written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the third class. No refund is given after the class has met three times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.
For courses that meet for six sessions or fewer, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the second class. No refund is given after the class has met two times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.
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Writing thrives in fresh attention. How can we come to our process open, free of preconception, ready for anything? How do we nourish this capacity? Stock cinematic visions of the creative process suggest inspiration seizes us in sudden gusts or that it’s a lucky endowment. But what if inspiration, as the painter Agnes Martin suggests, is always there, and our access to it is a function of our receptivity? How can we be, as poet Stanley Kunitz puts it, “a friendly host?”
In this writing class, each session includes a focus on craft and process, ample time for generative exercises, close readings, and guided discussion of students’ work. Above all, we’ll delve into what may not yet be on the page, becoming alert to the living, breathing language we step over on our way to some idealized notion of writing. In training our attention and in tuning our listening, we’ll invite an inquiry into our own obstacles and habits and develop strategies for finding entry points, and sustaining a resilient writing practice.
The workshop cultivates an ethos of care and respect for each others’ risks and offerings, holding a space in which you can find camaraderie and perspective in your writing process. Readings will include Mark Doty, Maggie Nelson, Anne Carson, Terrance Hayes, Jane Hirshfield, Jen Bervin, Mark Epstein, Frances Richard, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Solmaz Sharif, Ross Gay, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, Mary Ruefle, and Ocean Vuong..
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Genine Lentine is the author of Archaeopteryx (Artifact, 2016); Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model (Kelly’s Cove, 2012); Found Dharma Talks (Missing LInks Press, 2012) and Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes (New Michigan Press, 2010). She is also co-author, with Stanley Kunitz of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (W.W. Norton, 2005). She received an M.S. in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. She has received grants and fellowships from Southern Exposure Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Hedgebrook, and the Boomerang Foundation. As Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco Zen Center (2009-10), she curated The Expert’s Mind: Ten Interdisciplinary Talks, and Nothing is Hidden, a series of readings, screenings and artist talks.. She teaches writing privately and at San Francisco Art Institute.
geninelentine.com
PLEASE NOTE: Public Education courses are held contingent on a minimum enrollment, which is determined two business days prior to a class start date. Public Education Staff will contact you ONLY if there is a course cancellation or change.
FAQs
What materials (if any) will I need to bring to class?Each course requires specific materials that we ask you bring to your first class session so you can get started making right away. Materials lists are available approximately two weeks prior to the course start date. Visit the SFAI website here, click on your course title, and then click on the blue "Materials List" link underneath the course dates. If you have any questions regarding materials, please contact Public Education Staff.What are my transport/parking options getting to San Francisco Art Institute?All classes, unless otherwise noted, meet at 800 Chestnut Street, between Jones and Leavenworth. You can find directions to campus on the SFAI website.
SFAI is located in a residential neighborhood, and free two-hour parking is available on all of the streets immediately surrounding the school. The two-hour restriction cuts off at 9 pm, so evening Public Education students do not need to move their car, unless you arrive prior to 7 pm.SFAI is easily accessible via public transportation, with Muni bus lines #30 Stockton, #45 Union, and #47 Van Ness located within a few blocks of campus.Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?SFAI Public Education Staff are always happy to answer any questions you may have about the Public Education program, or our courses. We are in the office Monday-Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. Call us at: 415.749.4554 or e-mail: [email protected]
What is the refund policy?Refund requests must be made in writing to [email protected].
For courses that meet for ten sessions or more, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given if written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the third class. No refund is given after the class has met three times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.
For courses that meet for six sessions or fewer, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the second class. No refund is given after the class has met two times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.
THE VAULT: OPEN-GENRE WRITING STUDIOGenine LentineUp to 6 sessions >> Saturdays, June 16, 23, 30, July 14, 21, 28(no session July 7 due to 4th of July holiday)10am–1pm, Studio 16A, $60 per session or $295 if you enroll in all six classesClass sessions are freestanding and also build upon each other. We encourage you to enroll in all six sessions to get the most out of your writing practice. However, you can enroll in any and all sessions that work with your schedule.
Writing thrives in fresh attention. How can we come to our process open, free of preconception, ready for anything? How do we nourish this capacity? Stock cinematic visions of the creative process suggest inspiration seizes us in sudden gusts or that it’s a lucky endowment. But what if inspiration, as the painter Agnes Martin suggests, is always there, and our access to it is a function of our receptivity? How can we be, as poet Stanley Kunitz puts it, “a friendly host?”
In this writing class, each session includes a focus on craft and process, ample time for generative exercises, close readings, and guided discussion of students’ work. Above all, we’ll delve into what may not yet be on the page, becoming alert to the living, breathing language we step over on our way to some idealized notion of writing. In training our attention and in tuning our listening, we’ll invite an inquiry into our own obstacles and habits and develop strategies for finding entry points, and sustaining a resilient writing practice.
The workshop cultivates an ethos of care and respect for each others’ risks and offerings, holding a space in which you can find camaraderie and perspective in your writing process. Readings will include Mark Doty, Maggie Nelson, Anne Carson, Terrance Hayes, Jane Hirshfield, Jen Bervin, Mark Epstein, Frances Richard, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Solmaz Sharif, Ross Gay, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, Mary Ruefle, and Ocean Vuong..
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Genine Lentine is the author of Archaeopteryx (Artifact, 2016); Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model (Kelly’s Cove, 2012); Found Dharma Talks (Missing LInks Press, 2012) and Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes (New Michigan Press, 2010). She is also co-author, with Stanley Kunitz of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (W.W. Norton, 2005). She received an M.S. in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. She has received grants and fellowships from Southern Exposure Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Hedgebrook, and the Boomerang Foundation. As Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco Zen Center (2009-10), she curated The Expert’s Mind: Ten Interdisciplinary Talks, and Nothing is Hidden, a series of readings, screenings and artist talks.. She teaches writing privately and at San Francisco Art Institute.
geninelentine.com
PLEASE NOTE: Public Education courses are held contingent on a minimum enrollment, which is determined two business days prior to a class start date. Public Education Staff will contact you ONLY if there is a course cancellation or change.
FAQs
What materials (if any) will I need to bring to class?Each course requires specific materials that we ask you bring to your first class session so you can get started making right away. Materials lists are available approximately two weeks prior to the course start date. Visit the SFAI website here, click on your course title, and then click on the blue "Materials List" link underneath the course dates. If you have any questions regarding materials, please contact Public Education Staff.What are my transport/parking options getting to San Francisco Art Institute?All classes, unless otherwise noted, meet at 800 Chestnut Street, between Jones and Leavenworth. You can find directions to campus on the SFAI website.
SFAI is located in a residential neighborhood, and free two-hour parking is available on all of the streets immediately surrounding the school. The two-hour restriction cuts off at 9 pm, so evening Public Education students do not need to move their car, unless you arrive prior to 7 pm.SFAI is easily accessible via public transportation, with Muni bus lines #30 Stockton, #45 Union, and #47 Van Ness located within a few blocks of campus.Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?SFAI Public Education Staff are always happy to answer any questions you may have about the Public Education program, or our courses. We are in the office Monday-Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. Call us at: 415.749.4554 or e-mail: [email protected]
What is the refund policy?Refund requests must be made in writing to [email protected].
For courses that meet for ten sessions or more, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given if written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the third class. No refund is given after the class has met three times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.
For courses that meet for six sessions or fewer, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the second class. No refund is given after the class has met two times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.
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Writing thrives in fresh attention. How can we come to our process open, free of preconception, ready for anything? How do we nourish this capacity? Stock cinematic visions of the creative process suggest inspiration seizes us in sudden gusts or that it’s a lucky endowment. But what if inspiration, as the painter Agnes Martin suggests, is always there, and our access to it is a function of our receptivity? How can we be, as poet Stanley Kunitz puts it, “a friendly host?”
In this writing class, each session includes a focus on craft and process, ample time for generative exercises, close readings, and guided discussion of students’ work. Above all, we’ll delve into what may not yet be on the page, becoming alert to the living, breathing language we step over on our way to some idealized notion of writing. In training our attention and in tuning our listening, we’ll invite an inquiry into our own obstacles and habits and develop strategies for finding entry points, and sustaining a resilient writing practice.
The workshop cultivates an ethos of care and respect for each others’ risks and offerings, holding a space in which you can find camaraderie and perspective in your writing process. Readings will include Mark Doty, Maggie Nelson, Anne Carson, Terrance Hayes, Jane Hirshfield, Jen Bervin, Mark Epstein, Frances Richard, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Solmaz Sharif, Ross Gay, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, Mary Ruefle, and Ocean Vuong..
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Genine Lentine is the author of Archaeopteryx (Artifact, 2016); Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model (Kelly’s Cove, 2012); Found Dharma Talks (Missing LInks Press, 2012) and Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes (New Michigan Press, 2010). She is also co-author, with Stanley Kunitz of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (W.W. Norton, 2005). She received an M.S. in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. She has received grants and fellowships from Southern Exposure Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Hedgebrook, and the Boomerang Foundation. As Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco Zen Center (2009-10), she curated The Expert’s Mind: Ten Interdisciplinary Talks, and Nothing is Hidden, a series of readings, screenings and artist talks.. She teaches writing privately and at San Francisco Art Institute.
geninelentine.com
PLEASE NOTE: Public Education courses are held contingent on a minimum enrollment, which is determined two business days prior to a class start date. Public Education Staff will contact you ONLY if there is a course cancellation or change.
FAQs
What materials (if any) will I need to bring to class?Each course requires specific materials that we ask you bring to your first class session so you can get started making right away. Materials lists are available approximately two weeks prior to the course start date. Visit the SFAI website here, click on your course title, and then click on the blue "Materials List" link underneath the course dates. If you have any questions regarding materials, please contact Public Education Staff.What are my transport/parking options getting to San Francisco Art Institute?All classes, unless otherwise noted, meet at 800 Chestnut Street, between Jones and Leavenworth. You can find directions to campus on the SFAI website.
SFAI is located in a residential neighborhood, and free two-hour parking is available on all of the streets immediately surrounding the school. The two-hour restriction cuts off at 9 pm, so evening Public Education students do not need to move their car, unless you arrive prior to 7 pm.SFAI is easily accessible via public transportation, with Muni bus lines #30 Stockton, #45 Union, and #47 Van Ness located within a few blocks of campus.Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?SFAI Public Education Staff are always happy to answer any questions you may have about the Public Education program, or our courses. We are in the office Monday-Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. Call us at: 415.749.4554 or e-mail: [email protected]
What is the refund policy?Refund requests must be made in writing to [email protected].
For courses that meet for ten sessions or more, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given if written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the third class. No refund is given after the class has met three times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.
For courses that meet for six sessions or fewer, a 100% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received at least five business days before the first class. After five business days before the first class, an 80% refund minus a $20 processing fee is given when written notice is received prior to the second class. No refund is given after the class has met two times. Please allow two to three weeks to receive your refund.
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