Flood Gallery Fine Art Center

Flood Mission

Flood Fine Art Center is a non-profit contemporary art institution dedicated to advancing the careers of emerging and mid career artists, as well as educating the public and furthering the understanding of contemporary art and its importance within the community and beyond. We aim to provide a stimulating environment for artists so that they will successively enlighten, challenge, inspire, and elevate awareness for the necessity of art in contemporary culture.

Flood Fine Art Center seeks to be a vital cultural resource for Asheville through providing funding and space for innovative local and national artists as well as curators who stretch boundaries in all media. Through our extensive exhibition schedule, residency program, educational activities, presentations and publications we aim to serve a diverse audience that will in turn enhance quality of life and provide opportunities and experiences that would otherwise be unavailable.

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The Great Smokies Writing Program

 

Art of the Personal Essay
(Lang 371, 1 credit hour)
Sebastian Matthews

In this intensive course, you will first brainstorm then write a rough draft of a personal essay. Two revisions will follow the “deep revision” style. We will read a handful of contemporary personal essays and do in-class exercises.
Sebastian Matthews is the author of a collection of poems, We Generous (Red Hen Press) and a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps (Norton). He co-edited, with Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews, a recent finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Matthews teaches part-time at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal. His poetry and prose has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Brilliant Corners, Georgia Review, New England Review, Poetry Daily, Poets & Writers, Seneca Review, Tin House and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Matthews was recently a recipient of a 2006 North Carolina Artist Grant.
Meets Tuesdays • June 5, 12, 19, 26 and July 3 • 4–6:30 p.m.
At Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., Asheville

Art of the Personal Essay
(Lang 371, 1 credit hour)
Sebastian Matthews

In this intensive course, you will first brainstorm then write a rough draft of a personal essay. Two revisions will follow the “deep revision” style. We will read a handful of contemporary personal essays and do in-class exercises.
Sebastian Matthews is the author of a collection of poems, We Generous (Red Hen Press) and a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps (Norton). He co-edited, with Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews, a recent finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Matthews teaches part-time at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal. His poetry and prose has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Brilliant Corners, Georgia Review, New England Review, Poetry Daily, Poets & Writers, Seneca Review, Tin House and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Matthews was recently a recipient of a 2006 North Carolina Artist Grant.
Meets Tuesdays • June 5, 12, 19, 26 and July 3 • 4–6:30 p.m.
At Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., Asheville
 
 

Create Your Own Poetry Chapbook
(Lang 371, 1 credit hour)
Sebastian Matthews

Combine poems you’ve written with poems composed during the course to create your own theme-based chapbook. We will look at a variety of chapbooks and read contemporary poems for inspiration and guidance. Local book artists will teach ways to transform a small collection of poems into a limited-edition art object.
Meets Thursdays • June 7, 14, 21, 28 and July 5 • 4–6:30 p.m.
At Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., Asheville

 

 

 

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