English & Creative Writing Studios & Resources
In a world increasingly sped-up and virtual, the Department of Humanities is pleased to cultivate and promote the extraordinary benefits of slowing down, connecting, and engaging in collaborative, purposeful, embodied making. Through our English and Creative Writing Studios & Resources, as well as coursework emphasizing student-centered, applied learning beyond the classroom, together we experiment with things such as:
- Slow making/fashion
- Slow foods (farm to table)
- Slowing as a tool for innovation
- Slowing as a tool for mindfulness
- Slowing as a tool for wellness
- Slowing as a tool for sustainability
- Slowing as a tool for community building
Learn about our Process & Production Studio, as well as our Suite 207/8, below. Also check out our related Creative Arts Studios & Resources. Many of our students double and sometimes even triple major, earn Specializations, etc. across the arts and sciences. Our Studios & Resources often are part of that interdisciplinary collaboration.
Thanks to generous support from the Elyse E. Rogers ‘76 Grant, the Process & Production Studio continues the work of the Book Arts Studio, which connects the history of bookmaking and its influence on culture and language with our 1930s manual press to typeset and print a variety of materials. The Process & Production Studio expands opportunities for applied learning by bringing fiber arts and papermaking into the fold. Using traditional hands-on equipment, such as table looms, band looms, tapestry looms, spinning wheels, hand-spindles, and paper-making screens and deckles, students weave cloth for book and journal covers, spin thread for sewing together signatures, create new endpapers from scrap paper, and collaboratively create a variety of bookarts projects. The Process & Production Studio offers students opportunities to work on fully collaborative projects and individual pursuits, which we then celebrate on social media and the broader community. Projects also may be part of various local festivals, such as the Lancaster Zine Fest, and online exchanges.
Pics from the P&P Studio
Suite 207/8—also referred to by students as “the lounge”—is a comfy, mixed-use space where students:
- hang out and browse student publications, zines, art exhibitions, as well as issues of our student-run literary magazine, Green Blotter (going back to the 1970s)
- borrow English and creative writing resources, including featured texts from our Visiting Writers’ Series Writing: A Life, arts/literary journals, and specialty guides from our ENG+CW library
- make poetry and write on our chalkboard wall
- chat with professors and students
Scenes from Suite 207/8
