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Ekphrastic Worldbuilding (Grades 9-12)
Free, registration required
In this workshop, we’ll learn how to build a fictional world and add texture to imaginary settings. Whether our story takes place on a modern-day Earth or on a planet far, far away, a fictional world and how characters interact with it takes some planning! Using details taken directly from art in the space, students will leave the workshop with an invented setting to use as they please.
This class is a part of Portland Book Festival 2023. Portland Book Festival passes sold separately. For more information about Portland Book Festival, visit pdxbookfest.org.
This workshop is at the Rental Sales Gallery, directly behind the Art Museum on SW 10th and Jefferson.

Meaghan Loraas
Pronouns: she/they
Meaghan Loraas is a queer writer based in Portland, OR. They hold a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Texas State University, and their work has appeared in publications such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New South Online, and others. When they’re not working on their novel, teaching, or reading, they work as a content manager for several websites.