The Past as Memory + Future Goals
A Writing and Collage Workshop
Friday, November 4 • 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
(In person)
Cost: $40 members / $55 non-members (materials provided)
Monica Brown
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Through guided writing prompts you will be encouraged to discover more about your goals, dreams, and visions. No writing experience necessary. Just come ready for fun, exploration, and self-discovery! The writing prompts intend to encourage you to think about past experiences and accomplishments and how they relate to your future goals. After writing, you’ll incorporate some of your thoughts and ideas into a visual presentation through collage. This can either honor your past or help you visualize ideas and plans for your future. Or both! Feel free to bring photocopies of any photographs that you’d like to include in your collage. We’ll also use magazine images, paper, etc. (materials provided)

Monica J. Brown explores memory, history and personal mythology through visual art, sound, movement, writing and performance. Her visual art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She created murals with Chicago’s Hubbard Street Mural Project, and Detroit’s Live6 DNA Project. She is a Ucross fellow and has attended residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ragdale, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, among others. She has received grants from Chicago’s DCASE and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. She earned a B.F.A. from Otis College of Art and Design; and an M.A. from Columbia College Chicago, where she is a recipient of the Albert P. Weisman Award.