Woodland Pattern Poetry Workshop Series: Over the Prairie//Under the Prairie

The Charles Allis Art Museum is excited to work with Woodland Pattern to host 2 of the 6 poetry workshops in this series. Saturday, June 6, 2-4pm @ Charles Allis Art Museum: A Thousand Words Ekphrastic poetry is any poetry responding to a visual work of art, such as painting, sculpture or photography. In this workshop, we will explore ekphrasis in relation to a family photograph or heirloom. We invite participants (and family members if possible) to bring memory objects to the Charles Allis Art Museum to write poems inspired by these objects and the stories they tell. Saturday, June 20, 2-4pm @ Charles Allis Art Museum: The Good Death If you could choose all the details, how would you want to experience the end of your life? These conversations are often emotional and intimidating, but using poetry as a tool to meet death in the abstract, participants will be able to contemplate, verbalize, and advocate for their ideal end-of-life care. Workshop participants will take inspiration from the historic Charles Allis Art Museum to contemplate the Victorian concept of The Good Death and the changes in American practices around death in the last 150 years. Additional resources from Greater Milwaukee Death Doulas will also be provided.