For this workshop, MAD exhibiting artist Camille Hoffman teams up with esteemed author and poet Sarah Gambito to engage in a generative exploration of creative writing, bodily kinetics, and art making. Participants will assemble an ekphrastic ceremony that meditates on landscape as a portal to unexpected and co-created narratives.

About the Instructors

Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Delivered (Persea Books) and Matadora (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Poetry, Harvard Review, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and other journals. Gambito is Associate Professor of English/Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University and co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving Asian-American writers.

Camille Hoffman received her BFA in Community Arts and Painting from California College of the Arts in 2009 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2015. She has worked for over a decade as an arts educator and community organizer in Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, New Haven, Brooklyn, and Queens. She is a past recipient of the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting from Yale University, a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship, and a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Hoffman has shown throughout the United States and in Europe, in exhibitions including Music and Conversation: East of the Wallace Line at the Yale University Art Gallery and MASIVAMENTE at Espai Cultural Biblioteca Azorín in Valencia, Spain, and participated in the Nuit Blanche arts festival in Paris, France. She recently completed a yearlong residency at Queenspace in Long Island City, New York, and is currently artist-in-residence at Wave Hill in the Bronx.