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Private Twin Room - Shared Bath Details
Twin beds with bath en suite, room shared with another student. Includes daily breakfast, lunch & 2 dinners. Check-in Sunday, Checkout Friday.
All rooms include the following amenities:
- Wi-Fi
- Hair Dryer
- Coffee Maker
- Mini Fridge
- Microwave
- Art by MISA Instructor
- Convient Parking
- Individually Controlled HVAC
Queen Bed Private Room Details
Queen bed, bath en suite – Limited availability. Includes daily breakfast, lunch & 2 dinners. Check-in Sunday, Checkout Friday.
All rooms include the following amenities:
- Wi-Fi
- Hair Dryer
- Coffee Maker
- Mini Fridge
- Microwave
- Art by MISA Instructor
- Convient Parking
- Individually Controlled HVAC
Shared Twin Room (with another student) Details
Two twin beds, room shared with another student with bath en suite – includes daily breakfast, lunch & 2 dinners (price is per person). Check-in Sunday, Checkout Friday.
All rooms include the following amenities:
- Wi-Fi
- Hair Dryer
- Coffee Maker
- Mini Fridge
- Microwave
- Art by MISA Instructor
- Convient Parking
- Individually Controlled HVAC
Day Student Details
Includes daily lunch, onsite parking, 24/7 studio access, and MISA staff.
Meal Plan Details
We offer a gourmet meal plan with all of our on-campus lodging packages. Daily breakfast and lunch, and two on-campus dinners are served in our spacious Barn dining hall. For the other evening meals, enjoy the sights and sounds of Madeline Island at one of the Island restaurants overlooking Lake Superior sunsets.
Our delicious gourmet meals are prepared by master chef Laura DeRam. Her handcrafted meals are filled to the brim with local and organic ingredients. All meals are tailored to your dietary needs, vegetarian and gluten free options are always available.
Unlimited healthy snacks and beverages are always available 24/7 in our dining hall and workshop studios. We take great pride in providing fresh fruits from our famous Bayfield Orchards.
You’ll always find our chocolate chip cookie jars full morning, noon and night.
Tiny True Stories & Sketches: A Micro-Memoir Retreat
Genre: Writing and Sketching
Type of Medium: Personal essay and autobiographical comics
Availability: Spaces Available
Instructors:
Workshop Description:
Micro-memoir is a form of creative nonfiction that tells a personal story, typically in 1,000 words or less. The power of micro-memoir is its brevity, its limited scope. Rather than attempting to put big swaths of our lives onto paper, we focus our attention on small, pivotal, fleeting moments. By zooming in, we discover stories we never knew to look for, ones that often feel more potent and impactful than longer works on grander subjects.
A worthy and complete art form unto itself, micro-memoir can also serve as a strong foundation for a creative practice. First, the act of focusing on small moments is revolutionary for creativity, opening our eyes to the inspiration in each day, each moment. Secondly, every larger work consists of smaller components, meaning that each piece of micro-memoir might serve as a building block for a larger body of work.
Micro-memoir is not limited to the written form. Autobiographical comics, combining word and image, are an incredible art form unto themselves. Making journal comics and exploring visual language will be a big part of this multidisciplinary workshop. You don’t have to call yourself a ‘writer’ or an ‘artist’ to make tiny true stories and sketches.
This retreat is for anyone who wants to cultivate a creative practice rooted in everyday life, a sustaining habit of observation, reflection, and documentation.Over the course of our week together, we’ll share tried-and-true approaches to writing and making art from everyday life, as well as skills to help participants build a sustainable, long-term creative practice at home.
Molly will help you access memories that matter and write vividly from within them, exploring why we remember what we do. Nadine will lead sessions on writing tiny love stories, playing with experimental forms and structures, and revision, including how short pieces often become doorways to longer-form work. Hallie will lead you in the development of your own visual language through making daily journal comics, and help you view your sketchbook as a space to create freely with words and images in all iterations.
Workshop Schedule:
Sunday Night: Welcome Reception at 6pm
Monday – Friday: 9am – 4pm
*Subject to change*
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