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Challenges
Weekly
Visual Art
Deadline
Noms
Create an eye-catching still-life using 3-5 food items from your refrigerator or pantry. Highlight at least one product with loud and/or colorful graphic elements on its packaging.
Writing
Deadline
Sister
Three words: Long lost sister. Write about her.
Visual Art
Deadline
Blackout
Try your hand at blackout poetry by finding an old, unused book or magazine and scouring it for meaningful words or short phrases that can be pieced together to make up a new poem. Use a black marker to redact the remaining words around them.
Great Artists
Visual Art
Claude Monet
How did the Impressionist movement get its name? It started with this painting by Claude Monet and an art critic's insult.
Visual Art
Ed Ruscha
With a consequential election on the horizon, we focus on a U.S. painter who incorporates the words of our times in his art, words such as "president" and "oof."
Visual Art
Marc Chagall
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
- Marc Chagall
Great Writers
Writing
Naomi Shihab Nye
"Before you know what kindness really is, you must lose things," writes poet Naomi Shihab Nye.
Writing
Mary Oliver
Clear, evocative, simply beautiful – words that describe this poet's work.
Writing
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to be awarded the Nobel laureate in literature, gained worldwide acclaim for her unvarnished exploration of Black identity in America. Have you read her work?
Online Workshops
Writing
Writing Workshop: Free Verse Poetry
Free verse is freeing! You can write any way you like, break lines wherever you decide, and end a poem whenever you want.
Visual Art
Photo Workshop: Camera Settings
A camera is a tool that captures light and transforms it into an image. To achieve this, you need to understand and control three key settings: aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. Join YWP Alumni Advisor Kevin Huang for this online workshop.
Writing
Writing Workshop: Odes
Celebrate a certain place, person, or object that’s important to you by writing an ode. It can follow a format or be free-form and lyrical.
Contests
Visual Art
Deadline
Pop Up Contest! Color
In the short, dark days of December, make it a mission to find vibrant colors around you and share your discoveries in photography, painting, or another medium of your choice.
Opinion & Commentary
Writing
Founders
How do you think the founding fathers would view the nation today? How do you view it?
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Writing
Grateful
What or who are you grateful for?
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Writing
Post-Election
Thoughts? Share them here.
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