KSW’s legacy is one built on teaching, sharing resources, and creating community in times of need. To continue this legacy, we are offering classes that teach skills, consider unique perspectives central to marginalized experiences, and are accessible. Through our education program, artists can participate in online classes to learn new skills and make new connections. Check back to find updated information on the upcoming classes:

 Navigating Poetics: Writing, Making, Thinking, in the Pandemic with Truong Tran

This six-week class centered around the simple yet elusive question: "how do we make art in times like these?"

Pre-emptive Strategies with Truong Tran

PreEmptive Strategies addressed ways of writing beyond the mode of response as resistance in this time, exploring other disciplines and artistic practices to access our own creative inquiry as writers.

Zoombastic with Raina Leon

Poet and Professor, Raina Leon, took students through the basics of establishing a welcoming and humanizing online learning community, learning the hows and whys behind asynchronous and synchronous instruction, how to plan for full engagement of students, and how to use key tools like Zoom, Box, and Google Drive to support learning while holding space for vulnerability. 

Storytelling with Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

A beginner’s storytelling class that engaged students in laughing, listening, moving, and engaging each other to find their particular strengths, develop their style, and increase confidence in their ability to speak in public.

Narrative Prose Basics with Claire Light

This class was a four week all-levels course that helped students strengthen their understanding of narrative writing.

Gods and Demons

A two part workshop series that engaged students in mythmaking, science fiction, and fantasy. Literary unit was taught by Brian Thao Worra. Illustration unit was taught by Trinidad Escobar.

Frames of Mind

Frames of Mind was a joint project between Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) and Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc (RAMS). The project focused on Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) living with or who are at high-risk for mental health issues and equipping them with the skills and confidence to creatively tell their own stories through photography. Participants underwent a peer cohort-based photography workshop series and exhibited their curated work in a venue open to their family, friends, the RAMS and KSW communities. In doing so, we aimed to increase visibility and awareness of the daily challenges and experiences of individuals with mental health problems, and build support within APA communities which tends to stigmatize these conditions. Instructors: RJ Lozada (1st Unit), Kimberley Arteche (2nd Unit).