Artists & Their Regions (formerly Writers and Their Regions) is the CCW's signature course. It features seminar-style class meetings and a week-long artists' retreat that gives students and faculty time to focus on their creative projects.
The course is offered each Spring to upperclassmen dedicated to honing their craft and developing a specific creative project over the semester. In spring 2012, the class will read the work of Donald Barthelme and travel to Galveston Island.
Class 2011
in Spring 2011, the Artists and Their Regions class studied the living and the dead from Houston, Texas, to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Reading List
- Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire, Marie Theresa Hernandez
- It Takes A Worried Man, Tracy Daugherty
- Down In Houston: Bayou City Blues, Roger Wood
- The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
- The Dirty Side Of The Storm, Martha Serpas
- Pleasure Dome, Yusef Komunyakaa
Retreat 2011
For Spring Break, we traveled to Lake Pontchatrain and stayed at Fontainbleau State Park, then traveled to New Orleans and spent a few days in the French Quarter.
