Free, in-person workshop, registration required.
Join Inprint at The Menil Drawing Institute for an interactive writing activity that will flex your creative muscles in the exhibition The Gift of Drawing: Cy Twombly. Experience for yourself the rewards and pleasures of creative writing.
The Gift of Drawing: Cy Twombly features twenty-seven works that cover thirty years of the artist’s activity, from the 1950s to the 1980s and feature a broad range of materials, from graphite to oil paint; techniques such as drawing and collage; and themes that are fundamental to his entire practice, such as classical antiquity, eroticism, and nature.Writer and Inprint Prize Winner Layla Al-Bedawi will guide attendees in this free two hour workshop centered around themes from the exhibition. No prior creative writing workshop experience needed.
Image credit: Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1970. Collage of postcards, tickets, and tape, with wax crayon, graphite, and ink on paper, 29 1/2 × 27 5/8 in. (75 × 70.1 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the Cy Twombly Foundation. © Cy Twombly Foundation
Layla Al-Bedawi is a cross-genre writer living in Houston, Texas. Her work has been awarded the 2023 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, IGNYTE Award, and Rhysling Award, selected for the 2021 Best Small Fictions anthology, and can be found in Wigleaf, Bayou Magazine, Winter Tangerine, Juked and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston.