Hudson Valley Haiku: Painting with Black Ink

The discipline of haiku is to reign in what we might otherwise call poetic language, an aesthetic known as wabi sabi. In contrast, The Hudson River School was an American art movement whose aesthetic vision was influenced by excesses of romanticism. In this workshop, via ekphrasis, we'll transform the lushness of Hudson River School paintings into the "black ink" of haiku. After composing, we'll literally paint our haiku on paper to take home and frame.