Welcome to the Ames Writers Collective Calendar! Here you will find all of our upcoming workshops, community programs and events. You can view these options in a monthly calendar or list form (see right menu to choose). You may also click the colored tabs below to show only specific options, which list “future events” only. Past events can be found by clicking the arrow to the left of the month. Questions? EMAIL US!

Part 1—Words Meet Art & Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy

Christian Petersen Art Musuem 603 Morrill Road, Ames, IA

Words Meet Art, an outreach program of the Ames Writers Collective, is a literary arts event demonstrating through words how art, used as a writing prompt, can invoke feelings, trigger memories, and inspire conversations across divides and demographics. For inspiration, writers will interact with the Harriet Bart exhibition at the Christian Petersen Art Museum...

Part 1—Words Meet Art & Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy

Christian Petersen Art Musuem 603 Morrill Road, Ames, IA

Words Meet Art, an outreach program of the Ames Writers Collective, is a literary arts event demonstrating through words how art, used as a writing prompt, can invoke feelings, trigger memories, and inspire conversations across divides and demographics. For inspiration, writers will interact with the Harriet Bart exhibition at the Christian Petersen Art Museum ...

Part II—Public Reading | Words Meet Art & Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy

Christian Petersen Art Musuem 603 Morrill Road, Ames, IA

Writers who participated in Words Meet Art Part 1 will present their flash fiction, poems, creative nonfiction, a monologue, and/or perform music in response to the exhibition Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy in the Christian Petersen Art Museum.