Upcoming Events
Jan 21st, 28th, Feb 4th
10AM-12PM, PST
Art Inspires Poetry Workshops
with Gini Grossenbacher and Robin Gabbert :
Each session each features different artwork, poetry techniques, and creative inspiration!
Transform visual art masterpieces into verse in this engaging three-part Ekphrastic Poetry workshop series! Attend one, two, or all three sessions—each features different artwork, poetry techniques, and creative inspiration.
THREE SESSIONS: REGISTRATION FOR EACH REQUIRED
$40 per SESSION, take one or all
Location: Ohanlon Center
616 Throckmorton Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
About Your Instructors
Gini Grossenbacher is award-winning indie author, editor, and educator with expertise in integrated arts education, historical fiction, memoir, and poetry. Founder of San Rafael Writers & Artists and JGKS Press, providing workshops, editing, coaching, and publishing services. Acclaimed for The American Madams Trilogy, Glimpses poetry collection, and forthcoming The Artistic Women Series. Skilled presenter at literary conferences and experienced teacher of writing craft.
Robin Gabbert has multiple poems in state, national, and international poetry anthologies, including the Ekphrastic Review. She is the 2025 winner of the Fran Claggett-Holland Award for her contributions to the poetry community. Her poem Invisible was a finalist in the 2024 San Francisco Writers Conference Contest, and she was long listed for the Frontier Poetry “(Not) In Love” Tanka Challenge in 2024. Her chapbook of ekphrastic poetry and art— The Clandestine Life of Paintings, in Poems was published in 2022. Her new, full-length book of poetry, Somehow, I Haven’t Drowned, has just been published (fall 2025) by Blue Light Press.