Insights from Art and Design Writing Workshops

Abstract

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. connections to creating, performing, and teaching in high school settings. In their article for the (2012) Special Issue of ATD "Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum," Kelly Hrenko and Andrea Stairs demonstrate how integrating art, culture, and writing is by no means the sole province of post-secondary settings. So many of the same visual, auditory, oral, and written theories, practices, and performance-attitudes saturate the creative experiences of students and teachers (and students-as-teachers) at all levels. Our Intentions for this CollectionThis collection is intended for teachers and researchers of writing in and across the disciplines, in both secondary and post-secondary settings, and for those outside of writing studies who wish to infuse more writing into their performing and visual arts curriculums and courses. It complements ways of knowing and doing, performed in the Special Issue, for writing studies professionals. It also offers teachers in the performing and visual arts go-to practical designs and strategies for teaching writing in their fields.Composition and Rhetoric scholars are increasingly doing their part to study and report on connections between creativity, performance, writing, the visual, and teaching (e.g.