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Twenty-fourth Writer's Eye Anthology also available for purchase.
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Attention educators! You and your students are invited to enter the 25th-annual Writer's Eye competition. This program challenges writers of all ages to use visual art as inspiration for the creation of original poetry and prose. Docent-led tours incorporate English and Art SOLs and encourage students to look at art through the writer's lens. Contestants submit original writings inspired by selected works from the museum's permanent collection and visiting exhibitions.
Art selections for Writer's Eye 2011 will be drawn from the Museum's new exhibitions Figure Study: The Fourteenth Street School and the Woman in Public, The Dancer and the Dance, and Variety, Archeology and Ornament: Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice as well as from the permanent collection.
The Museum is pleased to announce that John Casey and Kevin McFadden will serve as the distinguished judges for Writer's Eye 2011.
John Casey will judge the prose entries from high school and University students, and adults. Casey was born in 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa. He is the author of five novels including Spartina, which won the 1989 National Book Award for fiction. His most recent book, Compass Rose, was published in 2010. He lives in Charlottesville, and is Henry Hoyns Professor in the English Department at the University of Virginia. He also is literary executor of the estate of Breece D'J Pancake.
Kevin McFadden will judge the poetry entries from high school and University students, and adults. McFadden has published in a wide array of journals, including Denver Quarterly, Fence, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Review. His poetry collection Hardscrabble received the Fellowship of Southern Writers' George Garrett Award for New Writing and the Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writing Award. McFadden is the Chief Operating Officer of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and lives in Charlottesville with his wife, the poet Angie Hogan.
Entries submitted by students in grades 3-8 will be judges by a panel of teachers and writers from the Charlottesville area. All judging for the competition is blind, with the authors' names removed from the work prior to delivery to the judges.
Compositions inspired by the selections can be submitted in the categories of Prose or Poetry, for grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and University/Adult. Entries are judged anonymously by area teachers and writing professionals. Winners are honored at an annual awards ceremony in the spring, and first-, second-, and third-place winning entries are published in the Writer's Eye anthology.
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A guided tour or museum visit is highly recommended, but not required to participate in the program. The art selections for Writer's Eye 2011 and the competition entry form are available below.
WE11 information and key dates (pdf) >
WE11 images (pdf) >
WE11 competition guidelines and entry form (pdf) >
WE11 writing tips and helpful hints (pdf) >
Both docent-led and self-guided tours must be scheduled in advance. Due to limited availability, early scheduling of your guided tour is recommended. To schedule a tour, please complete the tour booking form below, including 2nd choices for date and time, and email it. The Tour Coordinator will contact you to confirm the availability of your requested date and time, and will email your completed tour booking form with contact information for your docent. You may also call 434.243.2050 to book your tour.
Self-guided tour (pdf) >
September 12 - November 4
Writer's Eye tours begin with a 45-minute tour of selected works, and are followed by a 30-minute writing session. Groups are asked to arrive 10-15 minutes before their scheduled tour.
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| 9:30-10:45 am |
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9:30-10:15 am tour | 10:15-10:45 am writing |
| 11 am - 12:15 pm |
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11-11:45 am tour | 11:45 am - 12:15 pm writing |
| 12:30 - 1:45 pm |
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12:30-1:15 pm tour | 1:15-1:45 pm writing |
| 2-3:15 pm |
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2-2:45 pm tour | 2:45-3:15 pm writing |
WE11 tour booking form (pdf) >
Directions & map for unloading, parking, and loading buses (pdf) >
Self-guided tour (pdf) >
Tuesday, August 30
Teacher's pARTy
5 pm
In the Museum
Join us for a preview of the Writer's Eye 2011 selections from current exhibitions, an overview of the Museum's educational programs for 2011-2012, and a light supper.
RSVP to 434.243.2050 or by email by August 26.
Monday, September 12
Writer's Eye begins
Entry forms will be available in the Museum. To schedule a Writer's Eye tour, call 434.882.2418, or email the Tour Coordinator. Self-guided tours are also available.
Friday, November 4
Tours end
Last day for docent-led tours of Writer's Eye. Self-guided tours are still available until November 10.
Friday, November 11
Deadline for entries
Entries due at the Museum by 5 pm.
January 2012
Winners notified
Winners, teachers, and judges will be notified by letter or email. Public announcement of competition results will follow written notification to winners. No phone inquiries please.
March 25, 2012, 2 pm
Awards Ceremony
Awards Ceremony at Campbell Hall, followed by a reception in the Museum. The Anthology
of 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-place winning entries will be available spring 2012.
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