January Writer’s Night – Immersive Writing Session with Wendy Videlock

Join us on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 6 p.m. at The Art Center in Grand Junction for an unforgettable immersive writing session with Wendy Videlock. RSVPs are strongly encouraged as we will move about the Art Center and would like to plan accurately.

Wendy will guide you on using art as a tool for reflection, activating your imagination, and evoking vivid description in all types of writing including memoir, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Writers of every genre will enjoy and benefit from these exercises whether you write thrillers, cozy mysteries, historical fiction, poetry, holiday letters, blog posts, technical manuals, or anything in between!

In the world of poetry, this is known as ekphrasis, “a literary device consisting of a vivid, detailed description of a visual work of art.”

The Art Center has generously opened every gallery to the WCWF for this session. The art exhibits on display that night are:

• Terry Shepherd +1: Clay Vessels 2024 Exhibit
• The Sky is the Limit – an exhibition focusing on clouds as the primary subject matter
• The 7 Principles of Art and Design: Shape – featuring works from The Art Center’s Permanent Collection
• Kephart: Collector’s Exhibit

We encourage all writers to RSVP for this special writer’s night session!

 Speaker Bio

Wendy Videlock lives on the edge of a canyon in Palisade, where the peaches grow in abundance and the vineyards stretch across the valley. Wendy teaches and advocates for the arts in schools and public spaces. Her essays and poems appear most notably in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Hudson Review, O Magazine, Best American Poetry, and Rattle. Her books of poems and essays are available wherever books are sold and her art is featured in galleries across the Grand Valley. Wendy believes that the arts and humanities might just be the answer to all that ails us. She currently serves as poet laureate of Western Colorado. For more, visit this link.