Professor Angela Pelster-Wiebe (Creative Writing) gave a talk entitled "The Art of Failure" at the the Chesapeake Writers' Conference this summer.
It is impossible to be a practicing writer or artist without becoming intimately familiar with failure and rejection. For many of us, the fear of these things keeps us from becoming the writers (and humans) we want to be.
鈥擜ngela Pelster-Wiebe
Pelster's talk explores the reality of failure as an element of art-making. She considers how other artists have responded to the pain of failure and rejection, and how we might approach this unavoidable, sometimes overwhelming, aspect of the artist鈥檚 life.