Writing Wild: My Wilderness Palette

The McGill Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) introduces PACE: Personal and Cultural Enrichment, a new program area for inquiring minds. These stimulating events will showcase art, writing, religion, film, performance and more!

Join us for the inaugural event, Writing Minds: Culture Matters at McGill, a series of conversations with six well-known authors from McGill. Come spend time with them to discuss some enriching topics.

Event #1
Writing Wild: My Wilderness Palette
David Lank

How does an aspiring author/artist get started? What are some of tricks of the trade? What should a discerning reader or observer look for? What is the role of “the public”? Do we all have the potential to be an author or illustrator, to share our thoughts and visions with a larger world? Prof. David Lank will talk about his writing career and specifically his major book on the art and life of John James Audubon, Audubon’s Wilderness Palette, recommended by Time Magazine as one of the “must read” books of 1998.