Fox Friday: Fueling creative practice at the intersection of writing and visual design
This workshop will help participants expand their creative practice by bringing the craft of writing and visual design together. Participants will generate a text and spend time working on visual iterations that combine visual and textual storytelling. Workshop leaders will demonstrate and discuss models for making design-writing, and offer individual feedback on participants’ creative experiments.
Instructors: Sarah Minor and Heather Corcoran
Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist and the author of Carousel (Yale University Press 2026), Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press 2021) and Bright Archive (Rescue Press 2020). She teaches in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction MFA Program and serves as the Video Essay editor at Brink Literary Journal. Heather Corcoran is a graphic designer and a writer whose work explores data, place, and belonging. She makes maps and books with text, numerical data, and image. Her visual essays examine isolation and connection in the visual landscape. One of those, “First Deployment,” was published in Collective Inquiry into the Visual Essay: A Special Issue of AIGA’s Dialogue in 2023.
about fox fridays
Fox Fridays is a weekly, low-stress workshop series introducing the WashU community to overlooked or lesser-known tools, resources, processes, and ideas. It provides a platform for students to develop hybridized practices of creative output that transcend discipline, medium, and experience.