TEEN WEEK
TEEN WEEK! CREATIVITY LAB
INSTRUCTOR: JACQUELINE VIOLA MOULTON
Recommended for ages 12-18 but you are a little younger or older email Annie to see if this is a great fit for you!—classes@cottonwoodcenterforthearts.com
Each day focuses on a new genre, exploring writing, drawing, and painting. The class emphasizes developing lifelong creative habits, with drawing and writing as core skills, alongside introductions to acrylic, watercolor, color theory, and illustration. Students will also learn how to work collaboratively, engage with others, and strengthen their individual creative voice. By the end of the week, each student will have a mini portfolio of work to share.
MATERIALS
We suggest you bring: encils for drawing, pen for writing, notebook for drawing, notebook for writing (can be one in the same!) Other supplies will be provided. Reach out with any questions at all! Jmoulton@idsva.edu
REGISTER NOW: monday through friday | JUly 6-10 | 12 PM TO 2 PM | $180
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Jacqueline Viola Moulton (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and scholar whose work focuses around public, participatory, and performative poetry practices. Moulton has as Bachelor of Arts, a Masters in Art and Culture, and is currently is a Ph.D. candidate studying philosophy and aesthetics at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Jacqueline makes and publishes queer, experimental, and posthuman philosophy and poetry zines under the moniker, The Depressed Waitress. Moulton's creative practice includes performance, installation art, illustration, and literary arts - exhibiting work most recently at Cottonwood Center for the Arts, Kreuser Gallery, G44 Gallery, Volcano Art Center, Dear Artist Project, and House Guest Gallery. Within scholarship, Moulton has just published a chapter in the book Pearl Jam and Philosophy by Bloomsbury. Moulton's creative work is showcased in one full length poetry text. Other essays, poems, and nonfiction is published in literary journals, anthologies, and magazines, including The Northwest Review, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Real Change Newspaper, New River Press, Beautiful Minds Unite, Beyond Words, Routledge Publishing, and others.