BALTIMORE DISCOVERED: WORD & IMAGE
Ages 16-29
Summer 2023, Johns Hopkins Homewood
Location, location, location! In this photography and writing workshop, fellows will rediscover Baltimore, finding creative inspiration in all aspects of place: architecture and parks, neighborhoods and markets, faces and voices of people passing by. In group discussion, they’ll engage with the work of accomplished artists and writers, analyzing how others have seen and imagined other cities and origin places. They’ll be given weekly prompts to guide and inspire image-making and writing, and be encouraged to go outside their normal boundaries and develop their practice, ultimately zeroing in on their own personally meaningful visions, articulating their own perspectives. They’ll share and critique work in a collaborative, supportive space, creating individual portfolios reflecting new discoveries about a city they thought they knew. Their work will be shared through a public exhibition and on the program website. Let’s do justice to our place, where we stand, where we live! Limited to 10 student fellows.
Karen Fish received a BFA in photography from Arcadia University and a Masters from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She has published three books of poetry, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She teaches at Loyola University.
Alisha Mona'e Coates graduated from Morgan State University with a B.S. in Multi-Platform Media Production. A BYFA participant since 2016, she started her photography career at Edmondson Westside, and hopes to eventually open an art/photography studio.
