The Pocket Project: Adventures in Creative Inspiration
5 week workshop (5 sessions)
Mondays, Jan. 25-Feb. 22, 6-8pm
Early bird $275 | Register by January 3, 2027 (discount applied at checkout)
Regular Price $299 | Effective January 4, 2027
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience. We recommend signing up early!
Refund and other policies can be found here.
Where do ideas come from? Everywhere! We’re all surrounded by media, conversations, and experiences just waiting to be repurposed into art. There’s no need to start from scratch. The Pocket Project offers a weekly dose of inspiration for artists who want to jump-start new work, overcome block, return to creativity, or play and experiment with fresh ideas.
Taking cues from books like Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon and The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, we’ll borrow and recycle great ideas from other artists to create new work through our own lenses. (The name of the workshop refers to “pocketing” cool creative techniques.) Expect creativity prompts, hands-on making, and group collaborations, plus plenty of discussions about every aspect of creativity.
You will leave this workshop not only with drafts of new projects, but a toolbox for finding inspiration in your own creative process. This is an opportunity to try new and repurposed modes of creativity and decide what works best for you. Materials are provided — just bring a notebook, your favorite writing utensil, and an open mind.
Facilitated by: Alli Marshall (I&A Certified)
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Alli Marshall is an award-winning writer, editor, and a certified Creative Facilitator through the Inward & Artward School of Creativity. She's published the novel How to Talk to Rockstars, and the novelette The Persephone Project, and creates the monthly Zine subscription Courange, My Love. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in magazines and journals such as The Thomas Wolfe Review, FifeLines, The Asheville Poetry Review, and the forthcoming Story Bound Anthology, among others. Alli has offered workshops through Story Parlor, Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville, Flatiron Writers Room, and REVOLVE.