SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Writing in the Galleries,” starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.
Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as an impetus to writing. Each session is led by a visiting writer/facilitator who begins with a conversation and prompts, partially inspired by works on view. In November, Writing in the Galleries is led by local writer Rick Benjamin. Now happily entrenched at UCSB, Rick Benjamin has also taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Goddard College, Haverford College, Haystack, and New Urban Arts. Participants are free to write on their own and then reconvene as a group to share and comment on each other’s work. Please bring a journal or notebook, laptop, or tablet on which to write.
Free
To reserve a spot, email communityprograms@sbma.net.
More about Rick Benjamin:
The former state poet laureate of Rhode Island, Rick Benjamin currently works at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses in poetry & community, ecological literature, juvenile justice, community engagement, among other things, in the departments of Comparative Literature & Environmental Studies. He has also taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, the MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College, in many schools, and in community & assisted living centers — where he has passed good time in the company of people who range in age from six to ninety-six. He has published three books of poetry: Passing Love (Wolf Ridge Press: San Francisco. 2010), Floating World (Wolf Ridge Press: 2013) and Endless Distances (Lawrence & Crane Publications: Houston. 2015), and a fourth book, Some Bodies in the Grief Bed, is forthcoming from Homebound Publications (CT) in the summer of 2020. He is also currently finishing a book about both how poetry works & the work it helps us to do in our lives.